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Psychology Internship (PSY 598)
allows students to work in a variety of settings: inpatient psychiatric
units; The Barbara Blum Residence, a diagnostic group home for
male adolescents; Project Hospitality, an agency that serves homeless
women and children; IBR, a neuropsychology research facility;
the Staten Island AIDS Task Force, Eden II, a school for autistic
children; the Safe Horizon Agency - to name a few of the many
possibilities.
Internships can benefit Psychology
students in numerous ways. Qualified Psychology majors take the
Internship Course to (a) make informed decisions about which career
paths to pursue; (b) become part of professional networks; (c)
attend in-service training and receive supervision from human
service professionals; (d) become partly desensitized to the stresses
and challenges of establishing a personal identity as a helper
while learning to withstand frustration; and (e) gain a more realistic
perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of existing facilities.
Additionally, students benefit
by being able to describe their internship experiences when applying
to graduate programs and during admissions interviews. (Psychology
majors who completed internships and had excellent GPA's have
been accepted into John Jay College's Forensic Psychology MS Program,
Brooklyn College's School Psychology Program, Villanova University's
I/O Program, Hunter, NYU, and Fordham's MSW Programs; CCNY and
the California School of Professional Psychology's Ph.D Programs
in Clinical Psychology, and into Cardoza Law School. Many students
receive job offers from the organization at which they interned.
Not surprisingly, some students elect to do two internships.
Many students do not immediately
apply for graduate school after receiving their B.A. and instead
seek employment in entry level positions in social agencies, community
residences, neuropsychology laboratories, and psychiatric units.
These settings require a BA level education and relevant experience.
Internships provide the needed experience.
PSY 598 is offered in the Fall
and Spring semesters. Students work six hours per week for fifteen
weeks receiving four credits for a total of 90 field work hours.
The class meets for one hour at CSI, additional supervision is
provided on-site. Acceptance into this class requires a GPA of
at least 2.5, completion of a minimum of 15 Psychology credits,
and permission of the instructor or Internship Coordinator. For
further information, please see Professor Rima Blair, during her
office hours (4S-209) or call her voice mail at 718-982-3775.
Please bring a copy of your CSI Progress Report (transcript).
copy submitted by Prof. Rima Blair,
Internship Coordinator
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