Monitor on Psychology - April 2012 - (Page 10)

Upfront The internship match imbalance worsens, but there are signs of hope in otherwise grim numbers This year, 1,041 students came away from the psychology internship match without the placements they need to complete their school, counseling or clinical doctoral training, according to newly released APPIC statistics. This group represents 26 percent of the 4,009 students who submitted rank-ordered lists in the 2012 match, a 2 percent increase of unmatched students since 2011. An additional 426 students who initially registered for the psychology internship match either formally withdrew or failed to submit their lists of preferred sites. The rising number of unmatched applicants is due largely to a rapid increase of psychology students — about 700 in the last four years — and not enough new internships to go around, says APPIC Match Coordinator Greg Keilin, PhD. “Due to an ongoing imbalance between the number of applicants and the number of available positions, many talented students didn’t match this year,” he says. Since 2009, roughly 130 new internships slots have opened up, Keilin says. APA (including APAGS), APPIC and other organizations have been working to encourage internship sites to add even more by, for instance, providing an online internship creation toolkit and a mentoring program for new training directors. The groups have also sought federal funding for psychology training and sparked a grassroots movement that saved 22 psychology internships in New York, says Nabil El-Ghoroury, PhD, APAGS Associate Executive Director. (For more on what APA and others are doing to help, see “Righting the Imbalance,” in the February Monitor.) “We won’t rest until we find a long-term, sustainable solution to the internship match crisis,” El-Ghoroury says. Students who did not find an internship in phase one of the match can participate in a second-round match. Last year, 185 students found internships this way. Currently, 222 positions remain unfilled. Last year, 256 positions remained unfilled after phase one of the match. —S. DINGFELDER Video: APAGS chair Ali Mattu on the implications of the internship crisis. Click here for a transcript of the video. The internship match, now and then Withdrawn Matched Unmatched 432 1,041 231 426 2002 2012 2,410 2,968 10 MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY • APRIL 2012

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - April 2012

Monitor on Psychology - April 2010
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
From the CEO
Internship Shortage Continues
Mental Health Services Remain Scarce at Community Colleges
Apa Weighs in on the Constitutionality of Life Without Parole for Juvenile Offenders
Apa Praises Court’s Support for Equality
New Mobile App Answers Psychologists’ Clinical Questions
Nih Offers Free Web Resources for Psychologist Researchers
New and Improved Psyclink
In Brief
Government Relations Update
Time Capsule
Questionnaire
Random Sample
Judicial Notebook
Early Career Psychology
Psychologist Profile
Coal Miners’ Dilemma
The Science of Political Advertising
Science Watch
Science Directions
More Support Needed for Trauma Interventions
The Case Against Spanking
Innovative Psychology at the High School Level
Speaking of Education
Apa Divisions Reach Out to New Psychologists
New Journal Editors
A Home Base for Multiple Fields
Division Spotlight
American Psychological Foundation
Awards and Funding Opportunities
Personalities

Monitor on Psychology - April 2012