Overview
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Gary K. Zammit
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St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
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James W. Hull
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Department of Psychology, Division of Psychology, Westchester Division, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, White Plains, USA
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Selecting and Preparing for an Internship
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- Bernhard E. Blom, Nancy R. Holmes
Pages 63-77
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Introduction to Clinical Internship
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- Stephen Hurt, Naomi Tomoyasu
Pages 121-134
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- James W. Hull, Naomi Tomoyasu
Pages 135-149
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- Steven G. Wager, Gary K. Zammit
Pages 171-209
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Back Matter
Pages 211-226
About this book
The internship is the capstone experience of professional education and training preparatory for the application of psychology in health and human services. It is analagous for the practice of psychology to what the doctoral dissertation represents in the student's development as a scholar. At its best, the internship should be viewed as far more than simply a require ment for one's degree or licensure, a rite de passage for entry into the profes sion. Rather, it should be regarded by students and faculty alike as a rich opportunity for personal and professional growth, the opportunity to as sess and even rethink one's assumptions about human behavior and psy chological problems in the context of different client populations, types of problems addressed, and psychological service system environments. In articulating the first formal guidelines for the accreditation of grad uate training programs in clinical psychology, a committee of the American Psychological Association, comprised of distinguished psychologists of their day, asked, "What are the aims of a psychological internship?" The committee replied to that question as follows: Underlying all of its aims is the principle . . . that the knowledge es sential to the practice of clinical psychology cannot be obtained solely from books, lectures, or any other devices which merely provide infor mation about people or about ways of studying them.
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`The present volume, comprised of thoughtful contributions by national leaders of professional graduate education and internship training programs, is a valuable guide to faculty and students....Indeed, the book fills a void in the published literature on a topic that is central to our field.'
from the Foreword by Paul D. Nelson, American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Editors and Affiliations
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St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
Gary K. Zammit
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Department of Psychology, Division of Psychology, Westchester Division, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, White Plains, USA
James W. Hull
