Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Behavioral Health Services (BHS) offers an APA-Accredited Internship in Clinical Psychology Training Program since 1978. Interns participate in comprehensive generalist training in direct clinical service within a hospital-based outpatient community mental health center. The interns conduct a range of therapeutic services to community members across the lifespan through individual, family, couple, and group therapy modalities.

The BHS internship training program’s primary goal is to train and produce clinical psychologists who will be involved in a broad array of community and clinical non-academic settings. These settings may include hospitals, university counseling centers, community mental health centers, schools, and independent practice. Within these settings, it is the expectation that they be involved in a variety of roles including providers of direct service, administrators, and clinical trainers. The expectation is that they will be skilled consumers of clinical research with a well-developed ability to integrate relevant clinical theory and empirically based interventions into their ongoing clinical activities.

The BHS training program utilizes a practitioner-scholar training model entailing scholarly inquiry, psychological science, and clinical practice. Interns are expected to systematically apply relevant literature and research to their clinical work with a diverse community population served. There is a strong emphasis on evidence-based practice, and interns have many opportunities to implement a range of treatment approaches and theoretical orientations. While interns receive broad-based clinical training, they are encouraged to establish areas of clinical interest and specialization.

Review our website for more information: https://www.advocatehealth.com/education/medical-education/behavioral-health-students/apa-accredited-internship-program