Externship
An externship is a short-term, unpaid ‘shadowing’ experience. During the School Psychology externship, you’ll get to learn from clinical school psychologists in the field at a variety of settings.
You will participate in externships during the first, second and third year of the program. At the same time, you’ll be enrolled in a seminar class designed to help you draw connections between your studies and field experience.
Externship partners
- Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
- Chapel Hill Pediatric Psychology
- UNC Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic
- UNC Program for Childhood Trauma & Maltreatment
- UNC School of Medicine – Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
- Lepage Associates Psychological Services
- Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences – Child and Family Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience
- Whitaker Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility
- Murdoch Developmental Center
- Central Regional Hospital
- TEACCH Autism Program
- NCDHHS – Children’s Services
- NC Public Schools – Division of Exceptional Children
- Duke Emerging Adult Clinic
- Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development
- Duke Child Developmental and Behavioral Health Clinic
- Duke Integrated Pediatric Mental Health
- Duke ADHD Clinic
- ABC of North Carolina Autism Center
- 3-C Family Services
- Chapel Hill Pediatric Psychology
- Coastal Carolina Neuropsychiatric Center
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
- Durham Public Schools
- Guilford County Schools
- Wake County School System
Internship
The internship is an organized training program designed to provide you with a planned sequence of training experiences that will develop your profession wide competencies in health service psychology, specializing in school psychology. You will complete this training experience in schools or clinical settings under the supervision of a mentor who will provide guidance and feedback. Students pursue both APPIC approved and non-APPIC internship opportunities.
Sample school partners:
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
- Durham Public Schools
- Guilford County Schools
- Wake County School System
Sample APPIC Internship Sites
Over the past few years our students have completed internships at:
- Illinois School Psychology Internship Consortium (ISPIC), Normal, IL
- Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc., Concord, NH
- Central Regional Hospital, Butner, NC
- Marcus Autism Center, Atlanta, GA
- Franciscan Children’s Behavioral Health Services, Brighton, MA
- University of North Carolina Department of Psychology Community Clinic, Chapel Hill, NC
- Whitaker Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, Butner, NC
- Kennedy Krieger Institute Behavior Management Clinic, Baltimore, MD
- Intermountain Healthcare, Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
- Haymount Institute for Psychological Services, Fayetteville, NC
- Community Services Institute, Springfield, MA
- Westchester Jewish Community Services, White Plains, NY
- Terry Children’s Psychiatric Center, New Castle, DE
- Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Chapel Hill, NC
- Kennedy Krieger Institute Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress, Baltimore, MD
- Kennedy Krieger Institute Child & Family Therapy Clinic, Baltimore, MD
- Astor Services for Children & Families, Rhinebeck, NY
- Southwest Behavioral and Health Services, Phoenix, AZ
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center St. Jude Pediatric, Memphis, TN
- UCLA – Semel Institute, Los Angeles, CA