Psychology Internship Interview Questions

[rpsych1999]

Hi everyone! I am a fourth-year Psy.D. student who is in the process of applying for my fifth-year internship.
I'm really curious about specific questions that will be coming up during interviews and how everyone can best prepare for them. I am specifically applying to health/primary care psychology-oriented sites and would be interested if anyone has advice on what questions will be asked during such interviews. Thank you so much!

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[R. Matey]

Here's a useful thread.

Internship Interview Questions

Folks in the internship invite/rejection thread had the idea of creating a thread about interview questions, so viola. Please feel free to share materials you have or sources you have found helpful for you to prepare. If you have example questions from previous years, it would be cool to know...

forums.studentdoctor.net

For PC specifically, I'd suggest playing up your experience in that setting as well as your experience with cross-disciplinary collaborations.

 

[psych.meout]

Here's a useful thread.

Internship Interview Questions

Folks in the internship invite/rejection thread had the idea of creating a thread about interview questions, so viola. Please feel free to share materials you have or sources you have found helpful for you to prepare. If you have example questions from previous years, it would be cool to know...

forums.studentdoctor.net

For PC specifically, I'd suggest playing up your experience in that setting as well as your experience with cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Yes, and with specific examples of situation which demonstrate specific things, e.g., most challenging cases, times you disagreed with another team member and how you resolved it, how a case with interdisciplinary care would have turned out differently (esp. worse) if it was more siloed traditional mental health, etc.

 

[MCParent]

Yes, and with specific examples of situation which demonstrate specific things, e.g., most challenging cases, times you disagreed with another team member and how you resolved it, how a case with interdisciplinary care would have turned out differently (esp. worse) if it was more siloed traditional mental health, etc.

Related to this, I have two thoughts about things I've seen that I perceive to have been consistent challenges for some students.

Most challenging cases: I think a subset of folks interpret this Q as asking, 'tell me about your most bananacrackers patient' and then they tell a story about making a weird diagnosis, or, worse, making a very controversial dx (eg DID). A good 'challenging' case is a case with a normal condition that has an unusual presentation that requires some figuring out and consultation about, not the most bizarre thing you've ever seen. Even if the bizarre story is a correct dx, it is too hard to explain an off-the-wall case in 15 minutes.

Conflict: Too many applicants get this Q and hear 'tell me a story about a time you were right and someone else was wrong.' The story should be about resolving a conflict with communication (or, not, and then about what you see yourself as having done suboptimally), not about a time the applicant outsmarted their cohortmate or supervisor.