Connecticut Psychology Consortium (CPC)
Doctoral Internship in Psychology 2024-2025
About Us
The Connecticut Psychology Consortium (CPC) provides interns with a planned, programmed sequence of training experiences developed with the primary purpose of ensuring breadth and quality of training, meeting the needs of the doctoral interns, and providing an extension of education and supervised training from the university program.
CPC represents a collaboration across four Connecticut organizations serving students and schools:
one private, non-profit human service and educational organization, Aspire Living & Learning
one public school district, Darien Public Schools
two regional educational service centers (RESCs), CREC and EASTCONN
CPC was the 2023 recipient of the APA Division 16 Grant Program for School Psychology Internships (GPSPI).
Training Goals and Objectives
CPC prepares interns to intermediate competence in the delivery of direct and indirect school psychological services for children and adolescents (3-22) with a range of behavioral and social/emotional needs. Interns are provided training across a broad range of activities to include psychoeducational and behavioral assessment; consultation with school staff and families; development and implementation of evidence-based interventions; and program development, program evaluation, prevention, and development of system supports. Objectives and competencies addressed include:
Assessment and Data-based Decision Making (NASP 2.1; APA II.B.1.b; IR C-8.D.VI)
Consultation and Collaboration (NASP 2.2; APA II.B.Ib, IR C-8.D.IX)
Interventions and Instructional Support to Develop Academic Skills (NASP 2.3; APA II.B.1.b, C-8.D.VII)
Interventions and Mental Health Services to Develop Social and Life Skills (NASP 2.4; APA IR C-8.D.II) 11.B.1.b, IR C-8.D.VII)
School-wide Practices to Promote Learning (NASP 2.5; APA Program-Defined Competency)
Preventive and Responsive Services (NASP 2.6; APA Program-Defined Competency)
Family-School Collaboration Services (NASP 2.7; APA II.B.1.b, IR C-8.D.IX)
Supervision (NASP 2.10; APA II.B.1.b, IR C-8.D.VIII)
Diversity in Development and Learning (NASP 2.8; APA 11.B.1.b, IR C-8.D.III)
Legal and Ethical Practice (NASP 2.10; APA II.B.1.b; IR C-8.D.11)
Professionalism, Communications, and Interpersonal Skills (NASP 2.10; APA II.B. 1.b; IR C-8.D.IV,IR C-8.D.V)
Timeframe
The doctoral internship is a minimum of 2000-hr internship, completed over 12 months, where at least 25% of training is based on the provision of direct psychological services to students or consultees (i.e., teachers or other mental health/related service providers). In accordance with the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) guidelines, at least 600 hours of the internship occur within a school setting.
Stipend
Stipend is $30,000.
APPIC Membership and Accreditation Status
CPC is not accredited by APA. Application for APPIC membership submitted and awaiting decision.
Supervision & Didactic Training
Full-time interns receive at least four hours of regularly scheduled supervision each week. Of these, a minimum of two hours per week are individual, face-to-face supervision provided by a licensed, doctoral-level psychologist. At each site, each intern has a primary and secondary doctoral-level, licensed psychologist. At least twice a year, the internship program conducts formal written evaluations of each intern's performance. Additionally, site supervisors also conduct two feedback sessions with each intern’s university training graduate program to provide feedback regarding the intern’s progress in the internship program.
Interns participate in four hours bi-weekly of seminars and didactic trainings. Interns participate in didactic trainings as a cohort, with embedded opportunities for community-building, and each CPC site rotates hosting the didactic trainings.
Internship Sites
CPC comprises four Connecticut sites, each of which provides unique training opportunities to interns and services diverse populations. Interns complete the majority of internship activities within their site, and participate in didactic training and group supervision as a Consortium cohort.
