Ten students in DePaul's
Clinical Psychology M.A/Ph.D. program have been awarded highly competitive 1-year internships at doctoral training sites across the nation. The program is among the most rigorous, training students to become scientist practitioners who provide compassionate care to traditionally underserved groups, including children, teens, and families from minoritized backgrounds.
The program's curriculum teaches students to understand social and systemic barriers to mental health equity and has two tracks – one focused on community clinical psychology, and the other on clinical child psychology. Both tracks require core courses, a clinical practicum, and the 1-year clinical internship necessary for program completion. These internships are in high demand, accepting only the most qualified students.
“Students apply to internship sites, interview, submit rank order listings, and then wait to hear the results of the match in a process similar to that of medicine. Unlike medicine, however, these students don't get awarded their Ph.D. until they have completed internship and their dissertation," says Susan Tran, psychology associate professor and director of clinical training.
This year's internship sites range from the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles to the Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital, a globally prominent teaching hospital with 150 outpatient practices. DePaul students competed with a large number of candidates for these highly desirable slots.
“This is one of the most stressful components of clinical training because there are usually more applicants than accredited spots and you can't graduate without this internship. These students showed incredible amounts of determination as they went through the process," Tran shares.
The full list of recipients and their internships can be found below:
Shreya Aragula
Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA)
Brigham and Women's Hospital Internship - General Adult Track
Kailyn Bare
University of Oklahoma Health Science Ctr (OUHSC) (Oklahoma City, OK)
OU Medical Center – Neuropsychology
Amanda Barry
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (Cleveland, OH)
Clinical Psychology Emphasis Track
Brittanie Gage
Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program (Oak Lawn, IL)
Clinical Psychology Internship
Chatelle Miller
Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center (Boston, MA)
Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology
Alex O'Donnell
Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit, MI)
Pediatric Psychology Track
Paulina Paredes Cienega
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Child/Family & Trauma Psychology
Catherine Pierre-Louis
North Bronx Healthcare Network (Bronx, NY)
Jacobi Medical Center - General
Brittany Ricart
Kennedy Krieger/Johns Hopkins/Behavioral Psych (Baltimore, MD)
Pediatric Consultation- 12-month Track
Mary Takgbajouah
Charleston Consortium Internship (Charleston, SC)
Behavioral Medicine Emphasis