WKPIC welcomes our new doctoral interns, John Torres, Rain Blohm, and Crystal Bray! You’ll be hearing from them soon.
September 09 2015
August 08 2015
Farewell to the Class of 2014-2015
Summer ends, and so, too, does a year of internship at WKPIC. Good luck to Dr. Brittany Best, Dr. Graham Martin, and Dr. Faisal Roberts. Dr. Best moves on to a post-doctoral year in Hawaii (yes, we are all jealous), Dr. Martin is returning to his home state of Texas for his post-doctoral position, and Dr. Roberts is headed off to Pennsylvania for his post-doctoral year.
WKPIC staff knows you’ll do well wherever you go. We’re very proud of your accomplishments here–and no doubt we will hear good things about you in the future.
August 08 2015
Annual APPIC Comment on “Internship Businesses”
From Jason Williams, Psy.D., Chair, APPIC Board of Directors, and Greg Keilin, Ph.D., APPIC Match Coordinator:
“Each year, the APPIC Board receives feedback about the increasing number of enterprising individuals who have established businesses that focus on assisting applicants in obtaining an internship. Furthermore, the APPIC Board has heard comments and complaints about the claims that some of these individuals are making, the ways in which certain individuals are advertising their businesses and recruiting students, and the rates being charged to students (e.g., $100 or more per hour) for these services.
While there may in fact be some legitimate and helpful services that are being offered, the Board remains very concerned about the potential for exploitation — i.e., that some of these businesses may be taking advantage of the imbalance between applicants and positions by exploiting students’ fears and worries about not getting matched.
We encourage students to be cautious and informed consumers when it comes to decisions about using any of these services. Please know that there are a number of no-cost and low-cost ways of obtaining advice and information about the internship application process, such as the workbook published by APAGS (as well as books written by other authors), the free information available on the APPIC and NMS web sites, discussion lists sponsored by APPIC, APAGS, and others, and the support and advice provided by the faculty of many doctoral programs.”
WKPIC wishes for all of our potential applicants to know that using a service like this is absolutely not necessary to apply to our site. What we most want to see/know about is YOU. Perfection is not required. Please, just be yourself, and show us the best that you can do. We look forward to getting to know you!
Susan R. Vaught, Ph.D.
Director, Western Kentucky Psychology Internship Consortium
April 04 2015
Accreditation News!
WKPIC is elated to announce that we discovered this on APA’s website today, thanks to former intern David Wright:
Western Kentucky Psychology Internship Consortium – Hopkinsville, KY – Effective December 9, 2014
Next site visit 2021
At its meeting on March 19-22, 2015, the APA Commission on Accreditation reviewed the psychology internship program at theWestern Kentucky Psychology Internship Consortium and voted to approve initial accreditation, with the next site visit scheduled 7 years from the date of the program’s last site visit. The 7 year decision is based on CoA’s professional judgment of compliance or substantial compliance with all domains of the Guidelines and Principles for Accreditation (G&P). No serious deficiencies.
March 03 2015
Congratulations to Our 2014-2015 Leadership Graduates!
WKPIC would like to extend a hearty hurrah to this year’s graduates of the WSH/PMHC Leadership Forum. These folks did a lot of reading, studying, and homework-ing! Good job, all. Special nod to those three on the left, who just happen to be our current interns.
