Tracking trends: A longitudinal look at internship placements in counselling psychology in the United States |
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Authors: | Dr Greg J. Neimeyer W. Gregory Keilin |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida;2. University of Texas at Austin , Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | Efforts to track trends in internship placements across time serve the field of counselling psychology in a number of ways. But this research is qualified by its reliance upon a single source of data: the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Program (CCPTP) annual survey. This paper provides a review of the concerns related to this over-reliance, and addresses these concerns by supplementing this data source with the comprehensive data collected by the Association of Psychology and Post-doctoral Internship Centers (APPIC). Findings provide a longitudinal look at the supply and demand issue concerning internship placements, track the nature of pre-doctoral internship placements across a 30-year period of time, and generally support the validity of the CCPTP data by documenting their close correspondence to recent APPIC data. |
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Keywords: | Internships counselling psychology counselling internships |
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