What criteria must a potential internship site meet?
The primary criterion for a psychology internship is that the experience will meet important student needs. Thus, students are encouraged to give careful consideration to their future goals and to the question, “How can an internship help me meet my goals?” For many students, an important internship function is to help them make decisions about their career path. For others, it is to provide needed experience in the application of psychological principles to real world problems. It is hoped that this experience will both increase students’ competitiveness for graduate school or jobs and reduce the difficulty of the transition into these arenas. Ideally, an internship will serve all of these functions for students, but because each student is developing interests in different areas, internships must be evaluated individually in terms of their ability to serve these functions for a given student. The second criterion is that the activities involved in the internship be psychological in n
