INternship

Objectives

Thank you for your interest in the Mid Atlantic Internship Consortium’s Internship Placement at Capitol Hill Consortium for Counseling & Consultation! As a member of MAIC, we offer a 1-year APA-accredited internship program designed to prepare doctoral psychology students to flourish independently in the field of psychology. At CCCC, our interns are given the opportunity to participate in specialized trainings, weekly didactics, individual and group supervision, community outreach, and clinical care tailored to meet the interests and professional goals of the trainee.

Initial intake interviews
- Interns participate in intake interviews with prospective clients in order to gather background information, make an accurate assessment of client functioning, and make appropriate treatment recommendations
Individual, Couples, Family, and Group Therapy
- Interns maintain an average caseload of between 17 and 20 therapy hours per week. These hours may consist of a combination of individual, couples, family, and group therapy depending on the trainee’s interests and professional goals.
- CCCC boasts client referrals across the lifespan and the continuum of presenting concerns, providing an opportunity for interns to tailor their clinical work to populations of interest.

Assessment
- Interns complete one comprehensive psychological evaluation approximately every 6 to 8 weeks.

Supervision
- Interns receive at least 4 hours of supervision per week: 2 hours of individual supervision and 2 hours of group supervision (Process Group Supervision, Diversity Group Supervision, DBT Consultation Group).
- Interns are given the opportunity to supervise one clinical trainee in order to enhance interns’ ability to provide supervision as they enter the field of psychology. Interns are given supervision of their supervision.

Community Outreach
- Consistent with CCCC’s mission to provide high quality community-based care, interns are expected to participate in one community outreach activity per training semester. Previous activities have included community workshops, presenting at a local public school, or providing mental health screenings at a local community wellness day. Interns are encouraged to join one of the existing CCCC outreach activities or create their own!

Seminars
- Interns participate in twice monthly seminars on a variety of topics related to clinical and/or professional development including: Risk Assessment, Play Therapy, The Business of Private Practice, The Art of Therapy, Grief and Loss, Self-Care and Vicarious Traumatization.

Clinical Documentation
- Interns are guided in developing a thorough but concise clinical documentation style that is consistent with their own unique clinical identities.

In total, interns are expected to complete a total of 32 hours at CCCC (the remaining 8 hours are dedicated to MAIC training activities one day per week)

Developmental, strengths-based approach to training.
- We want trainees to identify their unique strengths and use them to maximize their impact in the field
- We meet trainees where they are with an eye toward guiding them toward becoming competent independent practitioners
- We focus on helping trainees discover their unique clinical identities and to begin to tailor their clinical practice to align with their future goals
Community-focused training
- In the PTP, our community focus is both internal and external
- Internally, we value each trainee and staff member as a part of a multidisciplinary team where every individual’s clinical identity is woven into the fabric of CCCC
- Externally, we consider ourselves to be members of the communities we serve in the DMV. As such, we encourage trainees to consider the resources available to our clients in the respective communities and systems they exist and the way that we can both contribute to and highlight the existing wellness in the communities we serve.
Culturally-responsive training
- We guide our trainees in seeing both themselves and their clients as complex individuals holding various cultural identities.
- As such, we challenge our trainees to explore the ways that these identities impact their clinical and professional work.

Internship Requirements

The internship is a year-long, full-time, 2080-hour training experience. Sites may adjust their schedules to meet training experiences for their interns. Interns are expected to accumulate their hours based on a 40–42-hour week for a minimum of 52 weeks. Overtime and/or compensation time will not be grounds for leaving an internship in less than 52 weeks. Interns who do not document 2080 hours during the training year should consult with their site supervisor(s) and the ITD to see if they may continue at a site until those hours are completed.

2. Interns must provide a minimum of 500 hours or a 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 of their time in direct client services. MAIC attempts to give interns 750 hours of client services. The rest of the time at a site is spent with training experiences, supervision, case notes, report writing, case conferences, meetings, consultation, research, etc. The site is free to develop its own individual training experiences beyond the central training, based on what it has additionally to offer and the training needs or interests of the intern(s).

3. Interns are covered by liability/malpractice insurance through TCSPP for one year of their internship. However, interns are encouraged to obtain their own liability insurance as well.

4. Member sites are not obligated to continue an intern’s stipend beyond a one-year commitment. If interns stay longer at a site by agreement, interns must provide their own malpractice insurance OR register for additional internship credit if they wish to be covered by TCSPP beyond the original internship contract dates.

Application

Materials can be emailed in ONE PDF to Dr. Shavonne Moore-Lobban, smoore1@thechicagoschool.edu a. Completed APPI Part I and II Application, including the - b. Cover letter: Address cover letter to Dr. Moore-Lobban and Dr. Simona Efanov (the PSS). c. Letters of Recommendation: Three letters written by someone familiar with your clinical work and who is willing to discuss internship readiness and appropriateness. d. Official Transcripts: Completed graduate courses only
Supplemental Materials: Two completely different writing samples are also required. They may be submitted in ONE PDF with the above materials, or emailed after your interview. i. redacted assessment report ii. intervention summary or treatment plan or summary.

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