Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data

Date Program Tables were updated: September 4, 2024

Internship Program Admissions

Briefly describe in narrative form important information to assist potential applicants in assessing their likely fit with your program. This description must be consistent with the program’s policies on intern selection and practicum and academic preparation requirements:
The CSDC internship focuses on clinical work with undergraduate and graduate age college populations with emphasis on acquiring multicultural awareness, knowledge and skills within a diverse international university community. Graduate level, supervised clinical experience in similar settings (eg. university counseling centers or other mental health agencies that provide individual, couples and group psychotherapy for diverse populations) is preferred. Experience with crisis intervention, outreach programming and coursework or experience in providing clinical supervision are also highly desirable for this doctoral internship.
Does the program require that applicants have a minimum number of hours of the following at the time of application? If yes, indicate how many:

Total direct contact intervention hours Yes Amount: 500 hours
Total direct contact assessment hours No Amount: N/A
Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:
Academic
  • The applicant is a doctoral candidate in counseling or clinical psychology at a regionally accredited university or school of professional psychology.
  • The applicant is from an APA accredited program.
  • The applicant has completed and passed comprehensive exams by the start of internship.
  • The applicant is certified as ready for internship by their doctoral program.
Interest
  • The applicant should have a strong desire to examine attitudes, assumptions, behaviors and values in order to learn to work effectively with all forms of diversity.
  • The applicant has expressed an interest in generalist training and career goals.
  • The applicant expresses comparable goals and interests to what is offered at this training program.
  • The applicant expresses genuine interest in college students, i.e. an appreciation for and knowledge of the developmental concerns of this population.
  • The applicant expresses interest and openness to the training experience this site has to offer.
Experience
  • The applicant has completed a minimum of 500 intervention hours at the time of application.
  • Previous experience in a university counseling center is desirable but not required.
Interpersonal
  • It is predicted that the appliant will demonstrate interpersonal fit and comfort with the current staff.

Financial and Other Benefit Support for Upcoming Training Year*

Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns $40,000
Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns N/A
Program provides access to medical insurance for intern: Yes
If access to medical insurance is provided
Trainee contribution to cost required? Yes
Coverage of family member(s) available? Yes
Coverage of legally married partner available? Yes
Coverage of domestic partner available? Yes
Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation) Up to 10 days
Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave Up to 10 days
In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave? Yes
Other Benefits (please describe): Culturally-diverse island community; 13 paid university holidays; Professional development time, Library privileges, access to Recreational Services (fees required), and eligibility for a parking pass (fees required)

*Note: Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed in this table.

Initial Post-Internship Positions (Updated 9.4.2024)

(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)

  2020 - 2023
Total # of interns who were in the 3 cohorts 9
Total # of interns who did not seek employment because they returned to their doctoral program/are completing doctoral degree 0
Total # of interns whose inital post-internship status is unknown 1
  PD EP
Academic teaching 0 1
Community mental health center 0 0
Consortium 0 0
University Counseling Center 4 1
Hospital/Medical Center 0 0
Veterans Affairs Health Care System 0 0
Psychiatric facility 0 0
Correctional facility 0 0
Health maintenance organization 1 0
School district/system 0 0
Independent practice setting 0 0
Other 1 0

Note: "PD" = Post-doctoral residency positions; "EP" = Employed Position. Each individual represented in this table should be counted only one time. For former trainees working in more than one setting, select the setting that represents their primary position.