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Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data

Date Program Tables were updated: September 1, 2024

Program Disclosures

Does the program or institution require students, trainees, and/or staff (faculty) to comply with specific policies or practices related to the institution's affiliation or purpose? Such policies or practices may include, but are not limited to, admissions, hiring, retention policies, and/or requirements for completion that express mission and values?

  • No

Internship Program Admissions

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 Training Program at Illinois State University believes that it is important for the intern applicant to find an internship that matches their training goals. Our Internship in Health Service Psychology is designed to facilitate the development of skills to be an entry-level generalist psychologist. Please review the Intern Training Program information for specifics about our training goals and highlights of our program.

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

  • Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours: Yes, Amount: 300 hours
  • Total Direct Contact Assessment Hours: No

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:

  • Applicants for our internship should be degree-seeking candidates in an accredited doctoral program in Counseling Psychology or Clinical Psychology, should have completed the appropriate coursework and supervised practicums, and be certified as ready for the internship by their home departments. We generally look for a minimum of 500 hours of supervised practice, including 300 hours of direct clinical services.
  • However, given that many practicum training were disrupted by COVID-19, we will focus more on whether applicants have acquired the necessary competencies in order to progress to internship training.
  • We ask that applicants have their dissertation proposal completed by the ranking deadline. We seek candidates from accredited programs only. Eligibility for employment at Illinois State University requires a background check that verifies that candidates have no criminal record that would preclude employment.

Financial and Other Benefit Support for the Upcoming Training Year*

  • Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns: $43,888
  • Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns: NA, (no half-time internship positions)
  • Program Provides access to medical insurance for Intern: Yes 
  • Trainee contribution to cost required: Yes
  • Coverage of family member(s) available: Yes
  • Coverage of legally married partner available: Yes
  • Coverage of domestic partner available: No
  • Hours of Paid Personal Time Off: 180 hours max
  • Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave: 90 hours max
  • 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

For other benefits please see HR website:
http://hr.illinoisstate.edu/benefits/ http://hr.illinoisstate.edu/benefits/time-off/other/

*Note. Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed in this table.

Initial Post-Internship Positions

An Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts: 2020-2023

Total# of interns who were in the 3 cohorts: 12

Total # of interns who did not seek employment because they returned to their doctoral program/are completing doctoral degree: 0

  PD EP
Academic teaching 0 0
Community mental health center 0 0
Consortium 0 0
University counseling center 4 5
Hospital/Medical Center 0 1
Veterans Affairs Health Care System 0 0
Psychiatric facility 0 0
Correctional facility 0 0
Health maintenance organization 0 0
School district/system 0 0
Independent practice setting 0 0
Other 0 0

Note: “PD” = Post-doctoral residency position; “EP” = Employed Position. Each individual represented in this table should be counted only one time. For former trainees working in more than one setting, select that setting that represents their primary position.