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Internship for the
Specialist Program
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All Specialist students must complete an
internship (also required to qualify for the Nationally Certified School
Psychologist (NCSP) credential) of a minimum of 1200 clock hours, completed
over a 24-month period. This would typically be either full-time for one
academic year, or half-time for two consecutive academic years. The
internship occurs at, or near, the satisfactory completion of all other
program requirements. Before applying to or interviewing with school
systems as prospective internship sites, the student must be approved for
internship by the School Psychology Program. Specialist internships occur
in school psychological services unit(s) in the schools. The intern's
experiences may emphasize one type or model of service delivery but must
include a diversity of experience. Specifically, at least 20% of the
intern's direct contact hours must be in assessment, 20% in consultation,
and 10% in direct interventions. Similarly, although the intern's work may
emphasize one client population, the internship must include a diversity of
clients with respect to culture, age, presenting issues, and severity of
identified problems. Interns receive at least 2 hours of regularly
scheduled, individual supervision per week, in addition to any group
supervision or in-service activities, from an appropriately credentialed
field-based supervisor |
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Internship for the Doctoral Program |
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A pre-doctoral internship
equivalent in length to full-time work for either one school- or one
calendar-year, totaling at least 1500 hours, is required after the
completion of all coursework. The internship must be completed in no
longer than a 24 month period. Pre-doctoral internships shall be
either: (a) a full-year, school-based internship, (b) a full-year
internship in a consortium arrangement in which at least half is in
a school setting, or (c) a half-time internship in a school setting
for one year, consecutively followed by a full-time internship in a
non-school setting; in the last case the Program will consider the
student's internship requirements to have been met at the conclusion
of the first half of the second internship year. Doctoral students
are eligible for certification by the Maryland State Department of
Education, and the NCSP after they have successfully completed at
least 1200 internship hours. Alternative internship placements are
available for students who either: (a) have previously completed a
1200-hour specialist-level school psychology internship, or (b)
whose combination of previous internship and work experience as a
school psychologist are judged to be equivalent to the required
specialist-level internship.
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At
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