If yes, provide website link (or content from brochure) where the specific information is presented:

Briefly describe in narrative form important information to assist potential applicants in assessing their likely fit with your program. This description must be consistent with the program’s policies on intern selection and practicum and academic preparation requirements:

The Counseling Center offers a comprehensive twelve-month Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology for students working toward their doctoral degrees in counseling or clinical psychology. Emphasis is placed on training interns to perform the primary functions of a university counseling center psychologist, with generalizable skills transferable to a wide variety of settings. Two interns are admitted to the internship program per academic year, and each intern works 40 hours per week. All interns engage in a 3-4 week period of orientation in August designed to assist them in getting to know Counseling Center staff and also to become familiar with the mission and staff of other offices within Student Affairs. During orientation, interns begin to define specific training goals for the internship year. While there are core required components of the internship program, each intern's training experiences are individualized as much as possible to more effectively meet the developmental needs and interests of each intern. For additional information about the Counseling Center's mission and philosophy, services, staff, environment, etc., visit our Doctoral Internship overview page.

Does the program require that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at time of application? If Yes, indicate how many:

Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours

Yes

No

Amount: 450

Total Direct Contact Assessment Hours

Yes

No

Amount: n/a

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:

Minimum Requirements:

• enrollment in a doctoral program in counseling or clinical psychology
• successful completion of comprehensive exam/task by application deadline (Monday, November 4, 2024)
• a minimum number of 450 AAPI Intervention hours
• experience, training or interest in working with college and university students and their presenting concerns
• dissertation proposal approved by the start of internship
• approval for internship by academic training director

Preferred Qualifications:

• interest in and commitment to university counseling work and college student development
• a collaborative spirit of warmth, acceptance, respect, and trust towards colleagues
• interest in working within the internship program's developmental-practitioner model
• a willingness and ability to explore one's sense of self, have the capacity to self-reflect, and use one's self-awareness effectively to further personal and professional growth
• energy to flexibly manage the professional demands of a challenging caseload while maintaining positive and healthy perspectives and relationships
• self-motivation, self-direction, and commitment to high professional ideals
• an appreciation for and experience with working with students from traditionally underrepresented groups and issues pertinent to these populations
• excellent oral and written communication skills
• dedication to the exploration of diversity variables in professional and personal settings

James Madison University completes a national background inquiry which includes a criminal felony and misdemeanor search, national sex offender registry database search, social security number validation and trace. Adverse information discovered in the background check will not automatically disqualify an individual from employment. Decisions concerning employment will be made on a case-by-case basis in conjunction with a review of the job description and requirements.

Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns

Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns

Program provides access to medical insurance for intern?

Yes

No

If access to medical insurance is provided:

Trainee contribution to cost required?

Yes

No

Coverage of family member(s) available?

Yes

No

Coverage of legally married partner available?

Yes

No

Coverage of domestic partner available?

Yes

No

Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation)

Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave

In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave?

Yes

No

Other Benefits (please describe):

• Benefits package (health, retirement, life insurance, etc.). For a description of the benefits, please go to: JMU HR Benefits
• An office equipped with a desk, computer, file cabinet, video and audio-taping equipment, Internet access, bookshelves, and optional decorative/practical materials such as pictures, clocks, lamps, plants, etc.
• Ten (10) paid University holidays (JMU announces these holidays on an annual basis)
• $600.00 in professional development funds (pending State Budget approval)
• Access to university libraries and the University Recreation Center, and reduced rates at cultural and sporting events.
• You can find out more information about benefits here: AP Faculty Benefit leave.

** Program Note. The stipend and benefits are subject to change at the start of each internship year.

Total # of interns who were in the 3 cohorts

Total # of interns who did not seek employment because they returned to their doctoral program/are completing doctoral degree

PD

EP

Academic Teaching

PD=0

EP=0

Community mental health center

PD=0

EP=0

Consortium

PD=0

EP=0

University Counseling Center

PD=2

EP=2

Hospital/Medical Center

PD=0

EP=0

Veterans Affairs Health Care System

PD=0

EP=0

Psychiatric facility

PD=0

EP=0

Correctional facility

PD=0

EP=0

Health maintenance organization

PD=0

EP=0

School district/system

PD=0

EP=0

Independent practice setting

PD=2

EP=0

Other

PD=0

EP=0