Doctoral Internship Program in Clinical Psychology

Benefits

The Internship stipend is for 1900 hours of work paid at the rate of $39,083 per year or $20.57 per hour. Florida has no state income tax. An additional 100 hours of non-paid approved clinical experience is required to successfully complete the internship. The 100 hours may include attendance or participation in conferences, dissertation preparation or defense, engaging in relevant research activities or other professional activities. These professional activities will occur at locations outside of the Florida Department of Corrections facilities.

While the pay is competitive, there are no State funded benefits for interns such as insurance or paid leave. However, leave time has been considered in two ways. First, interns will earn their full salary and complete the required 2000 internship hours by working on only 250 (not 260) 8 hour weekdays during the year.  Therefore, there are 10 weekdays on which they will not work.  These 10 days include 9 State Holidays and another day of their choosing.   Additionally, 100 hours (12.5 days) of the required 2000 hours of internship will involve unpaid professional activities. These 12.5 days may be used for professional activities such as dissertation defense, attendance at professional meetings, conferences, training, research or for post-doctoral interviews. When these pre-approved professional activities occur on the weekend (e.g., many conferences) the intern will take off a weekday at some other time.

Internship related expenses will include the cost of a specific type of lab coat to be worn during clinical duties and the $35.00 membership fee for joining the Florida Psychological Association. We may attend up to 20 training activities such as visits to other institutions (e.g., the Florida State Prison and Lake C.I), attendance of Florida Psychological Association chapter meetings, Florida Board of Psychology meetings and/or other opportunities that may arise during the year. While interns are generally offered transportation, they often choose to travel in their own vehicle and they should be prepared to provide their own transportation as needed.