Tag: Graduate Students
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General Advice and Experience Creating an External Practicum Site
By Samantha Dashineau, M.S., Purdue University Students in clinical psychology programs may choose to create their own external practicum experiences for a variety of reasons. For me, the internal clinic in my program did not accept clients with eating disorders, which meant I was not able to work with a clinical population of interest during internal…
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Advice for APPIC Virtual Internship Interviews from Someone Who Just Completed the Process
by Lili Gloe, MAMichigan State University Virtual psychology internship interviews have become the norm during COVID-19. In 2021, 98% of internship programs conducted their interviews exclusively virtually and many continued to do so in 2022. And it seems likely that, in some capacity, virtual internship interviews are here to stay (see APPIC 2021 Survey results).…
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Raising a Family While Attending Graduate School
by Brett Boeh Bergmann, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Living up to being a clinical scientist involves juggling many hats. Many of us find our time stretched between research and clinical work with the hope that the two might inform one another to live up to the evidenced-based principles lauded by our training programs.…