RELATE THERAPY INTERNSHIP

The Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program at Relate Malaysia provides training for students interested in careers relevant to clinical science, research, and practice. The overall training philosophy is based on the scientist-practitioner and reflects a commitment to training students who are able to provide and correctly apply scientific knowledge to human behaviour and who advance clinical science research directly or indirectly.

The goal over the course of the year is for interns to practice independently and operate as clinically perceptive, technically skilled and ethical psychologists. To accomplish this goal, the training program utilises a Scholar-Practitioner training model that combines experiential and didactic learning.

Relate Malaysia supports the development of psychologists by integrating psychological theory and research with practice. We believe that learning happens through experience, supervision and mentorship, and is informed by the science of psychology.

Our goal is for interns to achieve intermediate to advanced levels of competency with intake interviewing, clinical assessment, individual psychotherapy, couples psychotherapy (if possible), group psychotherapy (if possible), structured workshops and outreach programming, consultation and professional ethics.

Throughout the training year, experiential learning is informed by the theory and science of psychology in supervision and didactic training seminars. The goal for our interns is to facilitate their professional development from graduate student to skilled psychologist.

Training activities

Direct Service

Interns provide initial assessments and brief therapy to the community. In addition, interns may gain experience with couples and groups, depending on the clientele and the demand. Interns also discuss their treatment plans in ongoing supervision and team meetings or case conference to gain greater experience and competence in their clinical conceptualizations and interventions.

Initial Assessments

Interns establish a therapeutic relationship and assess the appropriateness of the student’s presenting problem to a brief treatment model versus longer term therapy. Interns also develop skills conducting assessments for a range of presenting issues, providing crisis intervention, developing differential diagnosis, referring for medication evaluation, and engaging in collaboration with other resources.

Outreach

Interns participate in various types of outreach to the community during their internship year. Outreach encompasses education, program development, and other preventative work.

Supervision

Interns will receive weekly supervision from their university and site supervisor. They will be required to attend a fortnightly two hour group supervision/case conference under Relate Malaysia.

Didactic Seminars

There will be a didactic seminar once every two months presented by an intern on a relevant mental health topic.

Support Groups

We will be establishing peer support groups (2 online and 2 in person). Interns are expected to facilitated the support groups in pairs.

Intern Group Meeting

The Intern Group Meeting is run by the interns themselves. It provides opportunities for interns to form bonds with each other, they set their own agenda for the meetings, process their training experience, and provide mutual support.

Applications

This internship is time-consuming and intensive, and based on best practices in mental health internships. We emphasise learning together with your peers and under careful supervision and feedback. We are looking for interns who are passionate about public service, public education, committed to the scientist-practitioner model, enthusiastic about learning and open to challenges and personal growth.

As a community organisation, Relate Malaysia will only accept interns who are enrolled in a graduate-level program with a university supervisor and is currently on internship at primary site with a site supervisor.

This internship program is highly competitive with only 25% of applicants being accepted.

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If you are a university training director looking for internship sites for your graduate training needs, please contact info@relate.com.my.