Internships

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

Students receiving their school psychology training in other states sometimes request to do their internship year in California. California currently has an intern credential available. In order to be paid to work in the schools as an intern school psychologist, one must have the intern credential. This is granted

In this manual, Internship is defined as the culminating fieldwork experience in which the school psychology credential candidate seeks to integrate previous classroom and practical fieldwork experiences with the goal of becoming an independent school psychologist. Under the supervision of a credentialed and practicing school psychologist, the intern provides