Full-Time Internship Program in Clinical Psychology
Children’s Institute’s Pre-Doctoral Internship program in Clinical Psychology provides graduate students a wide range of training opportunities in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural work environment to help them develop the core competencies needed to be skilled psychologists.
Modeled in accordance to guidelines set by the American Psychological Association, the program enables interns to work directly with clients, participate in weekly seminars and monthly didactic trainings, and gain professional experience in the context of CII’s child-friendly campuses. In addition, CII’s clinical faculty provide individual and group supervision of students on a weekly basis.
Primary objectives include developing conceptual knowledge and applied skills in the following areas:
- Family Preservation
- Child and Family Services
- Children’s Mental Health
- Domestic Violence Services
- Sexual Abuse Treatment
- Early Childhood Mental Health
Based out of CII’s two main sites, the Los Angeles and Torrance campuses, the program requires a 12-month, 40-hours-per-week commitment. Training is provided in psychological trauma assessment; psychotherapy interventions (individual, group, family and couple therapy); psychological trauma interventions (Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or TF-CBT); and interprofessional, multi-disciplinary consultation and collaboration.
The program accepts five full-time interns every year. Recent interns have come from Northwestern University, Phillips Graduate Institute, Argosy University, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Loma Linda University, and Fielding Graduate Institute.
“The cases were very complex and there was ample opportunity to work with individuals, couples, families, adults and children,” says Dan Bruzzone, a former intern at Children’s Institute. “I couldn’t have asked for better hands-on training or better professional supervision that what I received here.”
View the APA Internship Description. For more information, please contact Dr. George Bermudez, Director, CII Clinical Psychology Internship Program gbermudez@childrensinstitute.org.
