The internship supply and demand issue: Graduate student's perspective.

Abstract

The increasing gap between the number of internship applicants and the number of students applying for internship is of great concern for psychology graduate students and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). APAGS sees this concern as multifaceted and has been involved in a variety of efforts to address this imbalance since the early 1990s. This article outlines in greater detail APAGS' view of the internship supply and demand concern, how this problem affects students, and how APAGS has worked to address the issue. It also presents APAGS recommendations for advancing psychology's collective efforts to address this concern.

“The Worst Experience of My Life”: The Internship Crisis and Its Impact on Students

“…The present article refers to the imbalance as a "crisis," consistent with the American Psychological Association of Graduate Student' position that the imbalance represents a crisis for students' position supported by the results of the present study(Madson et al, 2007;Wells et al, 2014).…”

“…APPIC maintains a database of internship sites and commissions the online internship application and computerized internship match systems. The internship has been transformed in structure and function in a variety of ways over the decades, but remains a predoctoral experience intended to integrate accumulated knowledge with service provision (Madson et al., ; Wells et al., ).…”

An examination of applicant characteristics of successfully matched interns: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty and Leaking Miserably?

“…A recent issue of Training and Education in Professional Psychology (volume 1, issue 4) included a special section detailing more nuanced perspectives on this imbalance. Suggestions ranged from urging the profession to seek federal funding for internship training (Hutchings, Mangione, Dobbins, & Wechsler, 2007;Madson, Hasan, Williams-Nickelson, Kettmann, & Van Sickle, 2007) to public disclosure of the varied match rate outcomes of doctoral programs Collins et al, 2007) and development of work-force analyses (Rozensky, Grus, Belar, Nelson, & Kohout, 2007).…”

Imaginando el futuro en la práctica de la psicología profesional: un estudio de las representaciones de estudiantes universitarios

“…The contrast between the idea of internship as a direct practical approach to the profession or, on the other side, seen as an experience characterized by reflection on practice, highlights the difficult relationship between trainees and hosting bodies (Nappi, 2001;Nelson, 1995;Shakow, 1978). This relationship is important both in practical and psy-chological terms (Carli, 2009;Madson, Hasan, Williams-Nickelson, Kettmann, & Sands Van Sickle, 2007;Williams-Nickelson &Prinstein, 2004. It is important to make a premise.…”