The predoctoral internship begins July 1 of the current year and continues one calendar year through June 30. A two-week vacation period and one week of administrative leave are offered.

This consortium internship program is offered through the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences on the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center campus located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Consortium agencies include OU Children's Hospital and the OU Children's Physicians outpatient clinics, -- Child Study Center, the Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Presbyterian Hospital. The internship was first offered in 1961 and received APA approval in 1962. We have 14 different rotation sites providing both adult and child experiences.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has approximately 48 faculty members, including approximately 20 psychiatrists, 25 psychologists, and 3 psychiatric social workers. In addition, there are five part-time psychology faculty and other supporting staff, such as, psychometrists, and psychiatric nurses. Faculty members from other academic departments all teach or provide supervision. There are 17 psychologists in the Department of Pediatrics, and one psychologist in the Department of Neurology. All psychologists are on campus and most in full time positions. All together 43 on site psychologists participate in one or both of our postdoctoral training programs.

Click here to view the clinical psychology brochure and application materials. If you have any questions, you may email Debbie Scott or contact her by phone at (405) 271-8001, Ext. 47680.

• Application Information
• Benefits
• Seminars and Case Conferences
• Goals
• Clinical Orientation
• Philosophy
• Qualifications
• Specialization
• Training

Each applicant is to submit a complete set of application materials. The application deadline is November 15. A fully completed application set includes:

Our program participates in the selection procedure as suggested by the Association of Psychology Internship Centers (APPIC). All site visits are on an invitation-only basis. Telephone interviews are also available.

As we must limit the number of applicants who interview, all site visits are on an invitation-only basis. We normally notify all applicants selected for a site visit by January 1. We will complete all on-site interviews before February 1. Christmas holidays are December 22, through January 5, 2009. We do not schedule visits during Christmas holiday. Telephone interviews are also available. We will schedule site visits at least two weeks in advance. Please plan to stay for a full day. We suggest wearing comfortable shoes due to the fact you will be walking all over campus the entire day.

Our internship offers the stipends and fringe benefits as described below. It is necessary to note, however, that funding has fluctuated in the past several years; thus, the following recommendations cannot be guaranteed. However, firm salary stipends are given when the intern positions are offered.

1. Stipend levels: 2008-2009 stipends are $21,150 for The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Neuropsychology and Pediatric and Child Clinical Psychology; VA interns receive $22,898.
2. Benefits: Student benefits include library and parking privileges and use of the Family Medicine Clinic for Outpatient Health Services on a fee for service basis. The department provides Student Health Insurance for all non-VA interns. VA interns may elect to receive health insurance through the VA; the VA does pay a portion of the health insurance.
3. Vacation and Academic Leave: 10 working days vacation, 5 days academic leave.
4. The department provides professional liability insurance through APA Student policy for all non-VA interns. You must be a student member of the APA to receive this policy.

The internship offers several seminars, some year long and some for specified parts of the training year. Four seminars are required as part of the core internship program:

1. The Case-Centered Psychotherapy Seminar
2. The Intern Seminar
3. A weekly Behavioral Medicine Teaching Conference
4. The Director's Meeting

The weekly Neuropsychology Case Conference is attended on an optional basis by psychology interns. Other optional seminars are described in the internship brochure.

Our internship is designed to accomplish the following goals and objectives:

1. To prepare student for the practice of professional psychology, specifically clinical psychology and counseling psychology.
2. To provide the necessary professional experience, didactics, and supervision necessary for internship training to qualify the intern for licensure in any state the intern chooses.
3. To provide interns general internship training experiences. We specifically define general internship experiences as:
1. clinical experience working with patient in multiple settings
2. clinical experience working with both adults and children
3. clinical experiences in psychotherapy and in assessment with both children and adults.

4. All interns do not receive identical training. We provide the opportunity for interns to make major and minor rotation choices which will impact greatly their training experience.

Intern rotation choices can result in a specialized track within our general internship program. The tracks available include pediatric and clinical child psychology, child maltreatment, and clinical neuropsychology.

The theoretical orientation of the clinical training program is as diverse as that of the various contributing faculty members. This diversity is reflected in the specific rotations, which comprise the training program.

It is the goal of the internship to provide a number of models for you to aid in your search for a professionally meaningful orientation or framework. To that end, the clinical psychology faculty are aware of and utilize a variety of techniques and approaches for understanding and effecting behavior change (e.g., cognitive, dynamic, behavioral, family, group, etc.).

Interns are encouraged to gain experience in these varied approaches from which it is expected some integration of theory and practice will be achieved by each intern over the course of the internship year.

Our program subscribes to the scientist-practitioner model. Although we believe the internship should be devoted primarily to clinical activities, science provides the backbone for much of our clinical practice. The majority of our faculty are involved in research projects.

The core of the intern's training is in the clinical activities on the various rotations, and each intern will be active in a wide range of clinical activities.

Our program is a General Internship, and as such, interns gain experience working with both adults and children. Interns have experiences in psychotherapy and assessment with both children and adults.

Our major goal is to prepare students for the practice of professional psychology, particularly clinical and counseling psychology. Choices an intern makes allow for specialized training in pediatric and child clinical psychology, child maltreatment, clinical neuropsychology, and health psychology while maintaining a general internship philosophy.

Applicants must be in good standing in an APA-approved doctoral program in clinical or counseling psychology and must have completed at least two years of graduate study leading to a doctorate.

We do not accept applicants from school psychology programs, social psychology programs, or industrial/organizational programs.

The internship also considers postdoctoral applicants who qualify for a one-year internship. The postdoctoral applicant's training must conform to the guidelines established by the APA Council of Representatives, in that the applicant must be enrolled in a university APA-approved program of postdoctoral education for retraining in clinical or counseling psychology.

• Clinical Neuropsychology (Division 40 & Houston Conference model)
• Child Abuse and Neglect training
• Pediatric and Clinical Child Psychology

1. Adult Neuropsychology Assessment Laboratory (OU Medical Center)
2. Pediatric Neuropsychology Assessment Laboratory (OU Medical Center)
3. Primary Care (Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
4. Pediatric Psychology (OU - Children's Hospital/OU Children's Physicians)
5. Center on Child Abuse and Neglect -- CCAN (OU Children's Physicians)
6. Outpatient Child Mental Health Service (OU Children's Physicians)
7. Substance Abuse Treatment Center (Veteran's Affairs Medical Center)
8. Health Psychology Clinic (Veteran's Affairs Medical Center)
9. Ambulatory Mental Health Clinic (Veteran's Affairs Medical Center)
10. Neuropsychology (Veteran's Affairs Medical Center)
11. Post Traumatic Stress Recovery Program (Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
12. Family Mental Health Program (Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
13. Mental Health Primary Care Inpatient Unit (Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
14. Geriatric Clinic (Veterans Affairs Medical Center)