Doctoral candidates in clinical psychology must fulfill an internship of 2,000 hours with the prior consent of the Director of Internship.

It is an essential requirement that the student pass qualifying examinations and complete all the academic and clinical requirements for doctoral candidacy at the end of the Fall Session prior to commencing the internship. Students registered for Internship are considered to be full time students. Please see Internship Manual for further information.

The mission of the Internship Program is “to provide professional growth to the intern in clinical psychology, through a sequential and didactic training within a practitioner-scientist orientation” within the Psy.D. Program and within an Adapted Scholar Practitioner Model for the Ph.D. Program.

The basis of the Internship experience is acquired through the development of the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for doctoral level positions in Psychology and increased supervised training in areas such as psychotherapy, assessment, supervision, consultation, testing, and research. The program provides a unique opportunity for interns to increase and refine clinical knowledge skills and competencies as they are applied to a culturally diverse group of clients with multiple mental health needs in a variety of clinical settings.

The clinical training within a bicultural context such as Puerto Rico provides valuable experiences and opportunities for our interns to translate into clinical wisdom and practice the richness of multicultural awareness.