Internship Placements (Adopted by CASP 3/2003)

The CASP Board acknowledges the critical importance of the internship as the culminating fieldwork experience of school psychology trainees. The internship provides a unique opportunity for school psychology candidates to demonstrate field-based competence in the learning goals of their respective training programs. As such, it is important that internship placements provide experiences that allow candidates to engage in a variety of activities utilizing the skills and knowledge they have developed in their training programs. Such skills and knowledge cover a wide range of competencies as outlined in the program standards from both the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) and the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). Standards from CCTC and NASP require candidates to engage in a variety of activities related to the multiple areas of competency they are developing. In addition, the CASP Internship Manual stresses the importance of a broad range of experiences (California Association of School Psychologists Internship Task Force) during the internship. These statements include the following:

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