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Site Name: Lexington VA Health Care System
Department: Mental Health Service
We conduct interviews between early December and mid-January. All interviews will be virtual. Interviews occur between 9:00 AM EST and 12:00PM EST. The interviews will include an overview of the internship, individual interviews with 2 different faculty members and opportunities for questions with our current intern without faculty present.
We try to match the applicant with a faculty interviewer who supervises a rotation aligned with the applicant's interests, depending on schedules and circumstances.
Applicants likely to be granted an interview would have a combination of intervention and assessment totaling at least 500 hours. We prefer to see at least 100 hours of assessment, but will consider applicants with fewer hours, depending on the strength of the rest of the application.
The training director personally calls applicants to invite them to interview.
Our site does not use standardized case studies during the interview process.
We update our internship brochure before August 1 of each year, so please refer to that document for more information. Please do not hesitate to e-mail Dr. Phillips if you have questions.
The Lexington VA internship program utilizes the practitioner-scholar philosophy. The intership's experiences are intended to provide opportunities to practice and expand on previously learned skills, to develop new skills and to experience personal and professional growth. Our belief is that these objectives can best be achieved through comprehensive training based upon the following three principles: 1. Training in a breadth of clinical skills central to the practice of psychology. 2. Training emphasizing content areas relevant to the intern's career goals. 3. Training in the ethical and professional standards central to the practice of psychology. Interns will complete two 6 month major rotations and two 6 month minor rotations.
Major Rotations include:
Minor Rotations include:
(training opportunities continued)
Additional information about training opportunities: Not all rotations or training experiences may be available as described in the APPIC Directory. Please consult the program's application materials or their website at: https://www.va.gov/lexington-health-care/work-with-us/internships-and-fellowships/psychology-training/ for a complete description of the training opportunities available at this training site. IF the site has not updated their information by August 1, feel free to contact the Training Director for additional information.