Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data

 

Date Program Tables are updated: July 23, 2024

 

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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 Doctoral Internship in Psychology at the Danielsen Institute focuses on clinical skills and clinical practice in an outpatient setting. The program integrates relational approaches to psychotherapy, religious/spiritual/existential concerns and resources, cultural humility and social justice commitment, therapist formation, and salient research. Our clinical approach emphasizes developmental theory and research (attachment, differentiation, intersubjectivity), psychodynamic perspectives, and systems theory. Our approach to spirituality and religion is pluralistic and includes attention to diverse traditions, spiritual dwelling and seeking, spiritual struggles, positive and negative impacts of religion, dialectics, and flourishing. We seek to provide formative training, that is, training that attends to personal growth and important qualities, awareness, and resources as well as the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Training fellows will be asked to reflect on their identities and background as relevant for working with identity and diversity in clinical practice. Supervisory staff remain committed to their own on-going formation and growth, and seek to build sturdy and supportive professional relationships with training fellows. We value the research-practice interface and collaborating with professional and community leaders. 

 

Does the program require that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at time of application? If Yes, indicate how many:
Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours Yes About: 250
Total Direct Assessment Hours Yes About: 20

 

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:
The Danielsen Institute Clinic attends carefully to fit in the internship selection process. We seek to identify and select diverse interns who will benefit from the particular strengths and emphases of our program. Prerequisites for our internship program are as follows:

  • Applicants must have completed coursework and comprehensive exams towards a doctoral degree in psychology from an accredited institution (APA accreditation is preferred) prior to application
  • Applicants must complete their dissertation proposal prior to the ranking deadline. We prefer candidates who will clearly complete their dissertation prior to internship as that makes for a much better internship experience.
  • Applicants must have at least 250 client contact hours for psychotherapy.
  • Applicants must have at least 20 client contact hours for assessment.

In addition to the requirements above, we seek applicants who demonstrate (a) readiness for training that attends to spiritual/existential issues, (b) experience with relational/psychodynamic psychotherapy, (c) investment in cultural competence/humility, (d) facility with testing including Rorschach administration and scoring (R-PAS), and (e) interest in formative training that engages the self of the therapist with others.

Also please note that Boston University and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have vaccine requirements for health care providers including COVID, MMR, Tdap, Hepatitis B, Varicella, and TB testing. Boston University conducts background checks as a condition of employment.

Financial Support for Interns

Annual Stipend/Salary for full-time interns $58,656
Annual Stipend/Salary for part-time interns n/a
Program provides access to medical insurance for interns? Yes
If access to medical insurance is provided?
Trainee contribution to cost required? Yes
Coverage of family member(s) available? Yes
Coverage for legally married partner available? Yes
Coverage for domestic partner available? No
Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation) 160 (20 days)
Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave 176 (22 days) upon hire, 168 (21 days) annually
In the event that 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
Other Benefits (please describe): Approximately 3 weeks of paid holiday time off in addition to vacation and sick time; a furnished professional office; computer; phone; email; library privileges; fitness center (fees apply). Different health plans include FSA and HSA options. Group life insurance (premiums may apply).

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

 

Initial Post-Internship Positions

(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)

2020-2023
Total # of interns who were in the 3 cohorts 6
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 0 0
Hospital/Medical Center 0 0
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: outpatient mental health clinic 6 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 the setting that represents their primary position.