Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology
This predoctoral internship is a commitment to comprehensive and coordinated experiences designed for graduate students completing their PhD in Clinical, School or Counseling Psychology.
The Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology comprises seven cooperating agencies that together offer a broad range of professional experiences for qualified doctoral students in psychology.
The consortium's mission is to provide psychology interns with intensive professional training experiences within the context of a scientist-practitioner model.
The consortium specializes in training professional psychologists with child, adolescent, college student and family interests.
Comprehensive and Coordinated Experiences
Because the defining feature of NICPP as a consortium is their commitment to comprehensive and coordinated experiences, interns are admitted to the program as a whole and not to an individual agency per se.
Primary training experiences, responsibilities and supervision are coordinated at individual sites, with oversight by the NICPP Board of Supervisors. Interns attend monthly seminars, have access to many other educational events, and are exposed to a wide array of talented supervisors.
MMI Psychology Interns function primarily in a clinical role that involves assessment, diagnosis, treatment and consultation services for individuals with a wide range of mental health needs and across abilities, backgrounds, languages and the lifespan.
Internship Experience
Clinical Training
As a predoctoral intern at MMI, you will receive advanced training in behavioral psychology through applied clinical rotations, participation in monthly didactic trainings within your intern cohort, and consortium meetings with interns from other local internship sites.
Clinical rotations include clinical experience in behavioral pediatrics, integrated behavioral health in primary care, comprehensive school mental health, rural integrated care and/or specialty clinics.
Rotations may include opportunities for you to participate in behavioral health outreach, integrated pediatric primary care, telehealth, academic evaluation, school consultation and assessment, LEND training and NICU follow-up clinics. Your training will emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration, team-based care and consultation.
Hands-on
Predoctoral interns in the MMI Psychology Department receive experience in outpatient behavioral family and individual therapy and assessment in primary care, school and outpatient clinics for concerns including:
- Academic concerns.
- Anxiety.
- Depression.
- Developmental disabilities.
- Elimination disorders.
- Non-compliance.
- Obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Parent training.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Sleep disturbances.
- Toilet training.
Faculty Guidance
During your clinical training as a predoctoral intern, you can expect to receive weekly, one-on-one supervision with a licensed psychologist as part of a developmental supervision model. Didactic training and group supervision is also provided to predoctoral interns, including:
- Clinical topic seminars and grand rounds.
- Monthly Consortium didactic and peer supervision meetings.
- Monthly research meetings.
- Peer and group supervision.
Learn from faculty as they present areas of specialty during monthly meetings. You will also gain knowledge in documentation management and the administrative side of clinical practice.
Research Opportunities
- Your predoctoral internship experience with MMI will include research participation.
- Multiple opportunities will be available to you through ongoing departmental research related to improving service provision in integrated primary care, topics in pediatric psychology and behavioral pediatrics, relevant independent research, and studies using MMI psychology existing datasets.
- Presentation and publication opportunities are available throughout the year.
Participating Departments | Programs
Learn more about the areas within MMI that interns can focus their studies.
- integrated Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders.
- Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disorders.
- Pediatric Feeding Disorders.
- Psychology.
- Severe Behavior Disorders.
Program Support
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of an award totaling $1,350,000 with 20 percentage financed with nongovernmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
Allison Grennan, PhD
Co-Associate Director, Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology
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