Description This authoritative, hands-on book provides doctoral-level psychology students with all the resources they need to successfully navigate the internship application process.
Topics include the most common reasons why people don't secure a position; how many sites to apply to; rank ordering your list of programs; writing essays, cover letters, and your curriculum vitae; securing strong letters of recommendation; preparing for interviews; sending thank you notes; receiving Match results; and more.
Since the third edition of this book was released, the online application process and the internship marketplace have undergone significant changes, such as the growing importance of accreditation.
This fourth edition provides updated information that will help your applications stand out to your internship programs of choice.
Advice is also offered to directors of clinical training so they can guide and support students during this challenging process.
This resource is provided to students by the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students---the premier group committed to representing, leading, advocating, and developing resources for graduate psychology students.
About the author Carol Williams-Nickelson, PsyD, earned her doctoral degree from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, and completed her predoctoral internship at the University of Notre Dame Counseling Center.
She is former and first associate executive director of the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS), where she oversaw all operations for the organization as their chief executive from 2000 to 2008.
Before that, she served in several APAGS leadership positions, including APAGS chair.
She established many APAGS programs that remain active to this day, including the Advocacy Coordinating Team, Annual Internship Workshop, several scholarships and awards, and many others.
APAGS honored her work by establishing the Annual Carol Williams-Nickelson, PsyD, Award for Leadership and Scholarship in Women's Issues.
She was also executive director for the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the AMSA Foundation, where she developed progressive future physician leaders; created programming that filled gaps in medical education; and led many initiatives advocating for quality, affordable health care for all.
In 2012 she received AMSA's prestigious Women Leaders in Medicine Award.
She went on to serve as the executive director for an international testing and certification organization and currently is the principal of a consulting firm providing services to nonprofit education, health care, and charitable organizations.
Williams-Nickelson has provided services in a variety of health care and forensic settings, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, residential treatment centers, community-based organizations, private practices, and counseling centers.
Her background includes chairing and serving on numerous nonprofit boards of directors and volunteering for many charities that promote social change.
Her many publications, keynotes, and presentations at various medical and health care conferences relate to topics that encompass her research and expertise in the areas of mentoring, leadership, women's issues, the application of psychology in nonclinical settings, the education and training of psychologists and physicians, and behavioral health.
She has been a presenter at the APAGS Workshop on the Internship Application Process since its inception in 2000.
Mitchell J.
Prinstein, PhD, completed his doctoral degree at the University of Miami and his internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University School of Medicine.
He is currently John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Prinstein's developmental psychopathology research examines interpersonal models of internalizing symptoms and health risk behaviors.
He has been strongly committed to professional service and professional development for many years.
Prinstein was first invited to speak about the internship application process in 1995; he served as chair of APAGS and as a representative to the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers in 1997.
He also served as the chair of the American Psychological Association (APA) ad hoc Committee on Early Career Psychologists and on several committees and boards within and outside the APA.
He has been president of the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology and the Society of Clinical Child and A.
American Psychological Association (apa) Internships in psychology: the apags workbook for writing successful applications and finding the right fit, paperback/carol williams-nickelson
