PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMS

The mission of Psychological Services is to deliver excellent inpatient psychiatric care to those who suffer severe and/or chronic mental illness. Furthermore, we strive to provide high quality training to graduate students, predoctoral psychology interns, and postdoctoral fellows as they become integrated into the professional practice of psychology.

The Utah State Hospital Psychology Department strives to provide an optimal working and learning environment for all faculty, trainees, interns, and fellows by stressing the importance of cultural and individual diversity in its training program. This includes a commitment to recruiting, retaining, and enhancing the growth of psychology interns, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to represent various aspects of diversity, including but not limited to age, color, disabilities, ethnicity, gender, language, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.

The Utah State Hospital's Psychological Services is committed to providing high quality graduate training in psychology which includes in-depth training and exposure to a variety of clinical and professional issues. The program provides interns with experiences that will make the transition from "student" to "professional" as smooth and orderly as possible. In addition to a general clinical training position, we also offer specialized areas of focus in developmental neuropsychology and law-related psychology. The internship is a training experience during which interns receive practical service-oriented experiences that add substantially to their academic training.

The Utah State Hospital psychology internship offers three full-time predoctoral internship positions. Interns are paid a stipend of $21,000. All internship positions are for an uninterrupted, 12-month period beginning July 1st and ending June 30th the following year.

The Utah State Hospital offers one full-time postdoctoral fellowship positions. All fellowship positions are for an uninterrupted, 24-month period beginning August 1st and ending July 30th two years later.

The Utah State Hospital’s Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship adheres to the practitioner-scholar model of training. As such, the goal of the fellowship program is to train future neuropsychologists to function in an informed, competent, independent, and ethical manner across a wide range of settings. The fellowship program is structured to allow for both breadth and depth of neuropsychological experiences, including a variety of intervention approaches and professional issues. Training procedures emphasize mentoring and graduated responsibility, in the context of evaluation, treatment delivery, and outcome assessment. Fellows are here for training and professional development. Consequently, didactics, training seminars, and any other educational activities take priority in a fellow's schedule.

The Utah State Hospital Neuropsychology Fellowship offers one full-time position, starting on or around August 1^st.  Fellows are paid approximately $48,380 the first year, with a possible cost of living increase the second year. This also includes paid leave and sick time.  Although the fellowship is designed as a two-year program, contracts are made on a year-to-year basis, with renewal for the second year being made by mutual consent.  Fellows are provided with health, dental, life, and AD&D insurance. In addition, fellows are able to take advantage of many opportunities that are available to hospital personnel, including a free public transportation pass, use of on-campus recreational facilities, discount tickets to area attractions, free vaccinations, travel discounts, computer training, free hospital parking, and access to counseling through the Employee Assistance Program.