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Benefits


Salary: Intern salaries for the 2008-2009 fiscal year are budgeted at $23,944.00 with the contract period being from August 11, 2008 to August 9, 2009.
Health Benefits: Interns may choose from a variety of comprehensive medical plans. Dental, vision, and prescription plans are provided through the United University Professions union.
Vacation and Sick Leave: Interns earn 1.25 days per month of vacation leave and 1.25 days per month of sick leave during the year. In addition, there are approximately 10 paid holidays.
Professional Development and Professional Leave: Time is allotted for professional development activities (e.g. dissertation, research). Leave time for conference presentations, dissertation defense, job interviews is available on an as-needed basis pending approval by the Director. Staff, including psychology interns are also allotted $750 for professional development activities (e.g. professional conferences, workshops)
Computer and Research Facilities: Each intern office is equipped with a networked computer running Windows, through which interns have access to the internet, electronic mail, client scheduling, and other computer processing needs. In addition, interns may utilize university consultants for research design and statistical analyses.

Eligibility and Application Procedures

INTERN APPLICATION CRITERIA & PROCEDURES
Minimum requirements:
  1. Minimum 800 AAPI Grand Total Practicum Hours; Minimum 300 AAPI Total Intervention and Assessment Hours
  2. Minimum 3 years of graduate training in a clinical or counseling psychology doctoral program
  3. Comprehensive Exams passed by application deadline
  4. Graduate program that is APA-accredited; CPA-accredited is acceptable also
  5. Endorsement by their department chair regarding their readiness for internship.
Preferred criteria:
  1. 300 hours supervised psychotherapy experience (individual, couples, group) in graduate level practicum
  2. Psychotherapy experience with adult client populations (similar to college age populations)
  3. Experience providing services to diverse client populations
  4. Counseling center experience
Additional relevant experience:
  1. Crisis intervention
  2. Outreach and consultation
  3. Providing clinical supervision and/or clinical supervision coursework
This internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant. Interested candidates should submit 1. a completed APPIC Universal application form, including verification of eligibility and readiness (AAPI Part I and Part II) as well as 2. three letters of recommendation, 3. a current vita, and 4. official graduate transcripts. The APPIC application forms can be found at http://www.appic.org.

Information and materials for the APPIC Internship Matching Program can be found at the official web site (http://www.natmatch.com/psychint/) or by email at psychint@natmatch.com. They can also be reached by snail mail or phone at:

National Matching Services Inc.
595 Bay St., Suite 301, Box 29
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5G 2C2
Telephone: (416) 977-3431
Fax: (416) 977-5020
- or -
National Matching Services Inc.
P.O. Box 1208
Lewiston, NY 14092-8208
Telephone: (716) 282-4013
Fax: (716) 282-0611

Our APPIC Internship Match Code is: 145411

Completed applications must be postmarked by November 9, 2007. Counseling Services is a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) and the Association of Counseling Services Training Agents (ACCTA). We adhere to the procedures established by APPIC for notifying candidates.

Materials should be sent to:

Sung E. Kim-Kubiak, Ph.D., Training Director/ Assistant Director
Counseling Services - State University of New York at Buffalo
120 Richmond Quadrangle
Buffalo, New York 14261-0053

All applicants will be informed by December 15 (as per APPIC recommendations) whether or not they will be offered a phone interview. They will be notified by email and/or letter. Following the December 15 notification, you will be contacted by our secretarial staff to schedule a phone interview. Phone interviews typically take place during the first two weeks of January.

There will be NO notification to applicants of their ranking status (i.e. whether or not they will be ranked by our program), as there is no benefit for applicants in having this information and no cost for applicants of not having this information, given that APPIC match procedures will not be impacted by this knowledge.

Following applicants' phone interviews, there will be NO further recruitment efforts, as we do not wish to be perceived as courting an applicant (per APPIC guidelines). Applicants, however, may contact us following their phone interviews if needing further clarification about any information relevant to their ranking decisions. They are also welcome to speak further with other staff members or current interns, as relevant to their ranking decisions.

We do NOT offer on-site interviews (to be fair to applicants who cannot afford on-site interviews). However, applicants are welcome to informally visit our center, if that will aid in their decisions about ranking internship sites. Interested applicants should contact the Training Director to schedule the informal visit.

Any questions regarding the internship or application procedures should be directed Sung E. Kim-Kubiak by calling 1-800 PSYCH32 or via e-mail: sekim@buffalo.edu.

The University at Buffalo is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We're particularly interested in identifying prospective women, minority, and differently abled intern applicants. In accordance with federal and state laws, no person in whatever relationship with the State University of New York at Buffalo shall be subject to discrimination on the basis of age, religion or creed, color, disability, national origin, race, ethnicity, sex, marital or veteran status. Additionally, New York's Executive Order 28 and the University Board of Trustees Policy prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

* The information presented here is correct at the time of publication and is subject to change.

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