The Adult Tracks (Core Adult Track and Integrated Care Adult Track) are steeped in both the scientist-practitioner and scholar-practitioner traditions. We value and expose interns to scientifically rigorous approaches to clinical work, while also providing seminars and supervision that focus on philosophical and psychoanalytic ("human science") thinking to an extent rarely seen in an internship setting. Our aim is to train the most clinically and scientifically competent, and the most philosophically sophisticated, psychologists in the U.S. To this end, interns' training includes intensive didactics and supervision in rehabilitation psychology, DBT, contemporary CBT and third wave approaches, and contemporary practices in inpatient psychology, as well as seminars covering primary texts in psychoanalysis, existential-phenomenological psychology, philosophy of ethics in psychology, poststructural philosophical critiques of psychology, and postcolonial theory, among others.
The child track's focus in on training highly competent, caring, trauma-informed, generalist child clinicians through intensive supervision, experiences in numerous inpatient, outpatient, and integrated care settings. The child track offers track-specific didactics in trauma and child psychotherapy, and rotations on a hospital based Child Consult-Liaison Service, child inpatient, and others.
Our program might best be described polytheoretical. Our supervisors and teachers include psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and third-wave practitioners. We place a premium on theoretical rigor and respectful exchange of ideas across theoretical positions.
If you are a student who identifies as underrepresented in any way, we hope you will consider us in your application process. Our internship is committed to a rigorous philosophical examination of the history and systems of psychology (including current discourse) as they relate to questions of identity and difference, and we pride ourselves on a curriculum that has for years exceeded the field's standard in this regard. We also understand that "diversity" is a complex issue, and that there are diverse ways to think about diversity itself. We are committed therefore to fostering the respectful exchange of varying and divergent viewpoints through the lens of critical thought, and believe that such engagement makes us all better psychologists.
Please indicate in your cover letter whether you are applying either to the Core Adult, Adult Integrated Care, or Child Track.
A more detailed description of the program can be obtained online at www.upstate.edu/psych/education/internships/psychology
In response to research on student preferences after the move to televideo interviews during the early pandemic, we are conducting all interviews via televideo this year. We believe that this expands access to the many hard working and impressive graduate students for whom travel costs would be prohibitive. If you would like to visit us in person, you are also welcome to do so, just let us know and we can set up a time to meet you and show you around. Students who visit in person are not granted any advantage in ranking.
