• You’ll work with skilled, highly-experienced professionals who love what they do. 
• You’ll receive the training, continuing education, and experience needed to ensure career growth.
• You’ll gain exposure to a wide variety of clinical challenges.
• You’ll receive a generous benefits package.
• You’ll help to change the life of a child.

Clifford Beers Community Care Center
Doctoral Internship Program

Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data
Updated 10/2023

The doctoral internship program at Clifford Beers Community Care Center (CBCCC) is a one-year full-time training program focused on the development of clinical skills within a community mental health setting. CBCCC offers a wide array of services to help meet the mental health and social-emotional needs for children, adults and families in their home, in schools, in our clinics and in our community. Psychology doctoral interns provide individual, group, and family treatment, as well as psychological assessment. Along with more traditional outpatient work, the center has particular expertise in integrated treatment for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and, thus, interns will have the opportunity to work with a neurodiverse population. The center also specializes in the assessment of autism, in which interns receive training and experience.

The internship program provides a minimum of 1,920 hours of full-time work and training experience to be completed in twelve months. Interns will work 40 hours/week for 48 weeks (52 minus vacation and sick days), which provides 1,920 hours total of direct service, support activities, and didactic seminars. Approximately fifty percent of the time on-site is spent delivering direct care services (client appointments and care management).

The goal of the internship is to provide a varied, high-quality training experience that will support interns in developing a professional identity as clinical psychologists. Interns will receive training in individual and family assessment; individual, family, and group therapy; and parent guidance. The internship includes comprehensive training in clinical and developmental assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment planning and experience in both short- and longer-term psychotherapy. Through varied training experiences, interns will develop an integrated understanding of individual psychodynamics, developmental issues, and family systems. Given the agency’s longstanding commitment to community services, interns will be expected to provide advocacy and case management services for clients and to engage in community consultation with local agencies and schools. Emphasis is placed on providing treatment and services that are culturally sensitive and appropriate.

The program requires that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at the time of application:

• Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours: 300
• Total Direct Contact Assessment Hours: 100

Proficiency in the area of autism diagnostic evaluations, including the administration of the ADOS-2 is preferred.

For further information about the program and application process, CLICK HERE.

The Doctoral Psychology Internship Program at CBCCC is an APPIC-member program and abides by the policies set forth by APPIC. The program is fully accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. Questions related to the program’s accreditation status may be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:

Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1^st Street, NE, Washington DC 20002
202-336-5979
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.apa.org/ed/accreditation

Financial and Other Benefit Support for Training Year

• Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns: $25,000
• Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns: n/a
• Program provides access to medical insurance for the intern. Trainee contribution is not required. Coverage of family members is not available
• Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation): 15 vacation days, 11 holidays, 5 days sick time
• In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave? Yes
• Other Benefits: n/a

Initial Post-Internship Positions
(Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts, 2019-2022)

Note: “PD” = Post-doctoral residency; “EP” = Employed position. Each individual represented in this table should be counted one time. For former trainees working in more than one setting, select the setting that represents their primary position.