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There are not enough local internship positions accredited by the American Psychological Association to meet the needs of candidates who want or need to stay close to their academic program. Although some community agencies that offer practicum experiences might also like to offer internships, they lack sufficient resources. Furthermore, changes in the field of psychology call for new approaches to training. This article describes an innovative approach taken by a graduate school of professional psychology in building on an already existing accredited internship site to develop an exclusively affiliated consortium. The development and description of the internship consortium is described, the advantages and disadvantages of the model are discussed, and practical recommendations for other programs considering such an internship are outlined.

Associations between higher religiosity and positive marital outcomes are well documented (e.g., Mahoney et al., 1999;Olson et al., 2015), but less attention has been paid to religiosity in unmarried relationships. This study examines associations between religiosity and relationship quality in a sample of individuals in early adulthood (N = 354) who were in serious but unmarried different-sex relationships (mean duration of 4 years). Individuals rated their own religiosity (overall religiousness and attendance) as well as religiosity in their relationship with their partner (dyadic attendance and perception of religious differences with partner). Relationship quality was assessed on three variables: relationship satisfaction, commitment, and negative interaction using three-stage, hierarchical linear regressions. Control variables (age, income, education, relationship duration) were entered in Block 1, individuals' ratings of their own religiosity were entered in Block 2, and then individuals' ratings of dyadic religiosity were entered in Block 3. Results indicated that individual religiosity was only associated with commitment, while dyadic religiosity was associated with all three measures of relationship quality. Greater dyadic attendance and lower religious differences were associated with greater commitment above and beyond both individual religious variables and standard control variables. Having greater religious differences was associated with lower relationship satisfaction and increased negative interaction. Hence, dyadic aspects of religiosity were associated with relationship quality even after controlling for individuals' levels of religiosity. Implications for further research and practice are discussed.

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