1) Tell me about a case in which you used an intervention that was successful. How did you conceptualize the client?
2) Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
3) How does diversity play into your clinical practice?
4) Tell me about an ethical dilemma, either in a clinical or research context, or with a fellow trainee or supervisor. How Did you handle it? What you would have done differently?
5) Talk about a challenging client/clinical case that didn't go well. What would you have done differently?
6) Describe your theoretical orientation.
7) What drew you to our program and how do you see us facilitating your training goals?
8) What do you do to be involved in the field outside of clinical work?
9) Who is your favorite author in the psych field?
10) What book are you currently reading?
11) If you could have dinner with any 3 people living or dead, who would they be?
12) What will I know about you in a year that I don't know about you now?
13) What types of groups have you run?
14) (For NP focused sites) What is your favorite neuropsych measure and why?
15) How would your supervisors describe you?
16) (For those from PsyD programs) Coming from a practitioner-scholar (Vail) program, what could you offer a program based on the scientist-practitioner (Boulder) model?
17) What are two of the biggest issues in the psychology field today?
18) What are your three biggest strengths and three biggest weaknesses?
19) Talk about a diagnostic conundrum and how you resolved it?
Good luck everyone!!!
