Program Structure

The Consortium offers one-year, full-time doctoral internships beginning and ending in August. The start date for the upcoming cohort can be viewed to the right.

NV-PIC provides a range of clinical and didactic experiences that represents the necessary depth and breadth required for future professional practice within psychology. Interns will have a primary placement, with the possibility of receiving additional training experiences with faculty from other sites/tracks within the consortium.

Program Aims

The aims of the Nevada Psychology Internship Consortium (NV-PIC) are to prepare doctoral psychology interns to 1) provide, with cultural humility, broad psychological services to underserved clients in the Nevada public behavioral health system and 2) retain NV-PIC graduates to continue to serve the people of Nevada.

Program Philosophy

NV-PIC trains psychologists who are effective consumers of research and who utilize scholarly inquiry to inform their practice. NV-PIC offers generalist training, with the opportunity for specialized training that varies across training sites. More information about each training site and the resources and opportunities offered by each is provided under Site Descriptions.

Program-Specific Competency

Consistent with NV-PIC’s aims, in addition to the 9 required Profession-Wide Competencies, NV-PIC has 1 program-specific competency in Public Behavioral Health.

The 4 elements are:

• Demonstrates understanding of the public behavioral health system.
• Demonstrates understanding of and sensitivity to the specific social and environmental stressors of underserved client populations by appropriately considering these factors in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
• Demonstrates knowledge of organizational, local, and state policies, regulations, and statutes and their impact on the profession of psychology and the delivery of services.
• Demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate the system of care, including strengths, challenges, and impacts on persons served.