Clinical Psychology Package Internship B

Full course description

This course follows PSY3395: Clinical Psychology Package Internship A. As part of the latter, you have already gained some practical experiences in working in a health and patient care facility, and got to know the general structures of the health care system in the country where the internship facility is located, and what it entails to work interdisciplinary to help patients.

In this course, you build on your previously acquired knowledge and skills. During the internship, you gain your first practical experience in psychological prevention, interventions, and/or therapy. The internship must take place in an interdisciplinary health care facility or in another facility in which counselling, prevention, or rehabilitation are used to maintain, promote, and restore.

This internship can be done in outpatient clinics, or ambulatory center, or inpatient clinics, however, the facility needs to offer care in one of the following areas: psychotherapeutic care, psychiatric care, psychosomatic care, neuropsychological care, prevention, rehabilitation, care for people with mental and/or physical disabilities, or other areas of institutional care.

The internship has to be supervised by a licensed health care psychologist or psychotherapist who works in the facility. The students observe this professional at work and carry out their own work assignments. Also, the students will gain basic insights into the institutional, legal, and structural framework conditions of the facility. Furthermore, students learn about the professional ethics codes, laws, and legislations related to offering psychological prevention, intervention, and therapy to (groups of) individuals and reflect upon these in the context of their experiences during the internship.

Note: this practical experience cannot be used to fulfil the prerequisites regarding the theoretical background and working experience set for the psychodiagnostics registration (i.e., the BAPD) and/or vLOGO.This module is only available for students in the minor Clinical Psychology. At the end of the course students have to hand in a written report.