Intern2223
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I’m currently about 2 months into my predoctoral internship at an APA accredited site in a private practice setting. This is my first experience within a private practice setting, most of my experience has been with much larger organizations with more resources. I’m trying to figure out how to approach some of the concerns I have about the site. Some of the supervisors/training team are very quick to becoming defensive, passive-aggressive, and/or petty in response to myself and other interns bringing up concerns or questions that they take in a negative way. I don’t want to do or say something to the point that it will impact my evaluations/ability to complete/pass internship. The site had me administer an outdated iq test (where the newer edition came out in 2014) and when I asked about the newer edition and whether the test they had listed on their test request was accurate, they were completely unaware that there was a newer edition. (They also had said that the outdated test they had was only bought about 5 years ago, even though that version had been out since 2003). I have multiple other concerns about their approach to assessments and general use of outdated editions of tests, though administering the outdated iq test is currently the most frustrating. There are frequent hipaa violations/not following hipaa compliance. These are some of the biggest ethical concerns. There are also more minor issues, such as their level of mileage reimbursement, wide-spread difficulties with completing documentation on time (which is sometimes needed for our/the interns documentation to be completed), behavior during supervision/trainings (including clipping nails, texting, responding to emails, going through mail when others are trying to discuss clients), etc. There are also things I would love to do to help them continue to improve, like update their intake paperwork form to remove outdated terms like MR and be more inclusive for lgbtq and other marginalized groups.
Suggestions for how to approach all of these different things without ruining my ability to pass/successfully complete internship? (I know most postdoc applications want a LoR from an internship supervisor as well, so i don’t want to ruin my chances of getting a decent letter) If I and others have tried to bring this stuff up to the training team at the internship, is it okay to now just bring all of this up with my DCT and the hipaa related concerns to the state board? Also, I was told by the previous intern cohort that if anything was enough for them to lose apa accreditation (they were making reports/complaints to apa and their dcts as well), that my intern cohort would be okay/we would be considered as still having completed an apa accredited internship, is this correct?
Suggestions for how to approach all of these different things without ruining my ability to pass/successfully complete internship? (I know most postdoc applications want a LoR from an internship supervisor as well, so i don’t want to ruin my chances of getting a decent letter) If I and others have tried to bring this stuff up to the training team at the internship, is it okay to now just bring all of this up with my DCT and the hipaa related concerns to the state board? Also, I was told by the previous intern cohort that if anything was enough for them to lose apa accreditation (they were making reports/complaints to apa and their dcts as well), that my intern cohort would be okay/we would be considered as still having completed an apa accredited internship, is this correct?