Jennifer A. Erickson Cornish

Developing an Exclusively Affiliated Psychology Internship Consortium: A Novel Approach to Internship Training.

There are not enough local internship positions accredited by the American Psychological Association to meet the needs of candidates who want or need to stay close to their academic program. Although some community agencies that offer practicum experiences might also like to offer internships, they lack sufficient resources. Furthermore, changes in the field of psychology call for new approaches to training. This article describes an innovative approach taken by a graduate school of professional psychology in building on an already existing accredited internship site to develop an exclusively affiliated consortium. The development and description of the internship consortium is described, the advantages and disadvantages of the model are discussed, and practical recommendations for other programs considering such an internship are outlined.

A Broad View of Education and Training

This reaction responds to the three core articles in the Major Contribution in the September 2005issue of The Counseling Psychologist regarding (a) how counseling psychology programs fit within academic structures, (b) how our training models relate to student and faculty outcomes, and (c) how much progress has been made toward increasing the diversity of our faculty. The authors (a director/internship director in a university counseling center and a training director of a counseling psychology program) share a belief in the continued need for teachers and trainers in counseling psychology to work together, not only within departments and colleges but across campuses and throughout the field. The importance of collaboration between graduate programs and college counseling centers is highlighted, and support for a closer fit with colleges of education is stressed, along with a commitment to children and adolescents. This Major Contribution will hopefully reinvigorate other cooperative efforts.

An Analysis Of Diversity Content in Doctoral Health Service Psychology Program Websites

This study is a preliminary replication and extension of an analysis of multicultural content within doctoral program websites (Bidell, Ragen, Broach, & Carrillo, 2007) that considers race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, transgender identity, disability, linguistic diversity, and socioeconomic status. A random sample of 90 programs was chosen from 356 APA accredited doctoral health service psychology programs listed on the APA Commission on Accreditation web page in 2013. The selected programs were stratified for percentage of clinical, counseling, school, and combined psychology programs. As with the 2007 study by Bidell and colleagues, a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and chi-square analyses were conducted. Results indicated counseling psychology programs had the greatest volume of multicultural information on their webpages for prospective students. Most websites contained an antidiscrimination statement, but were unlikely to include linguistic diversity or socioeconomic status in their statement. Websites that included information on financial aid for diverse students, a stated commitment to diversity training, a statement of recruitment for diverse students, and faculty representing diversity were more likely to address racial and ethnic diversity over other diversity categories. Overall, race and ethnicity were more likely to be addressed on program websites than other forms of multiculturalism. This paper proposes that webpages are a low cost way for health service psychology programs to communicate multicultural information to prospective students, which may help to attract and enroll more diverse students.