The University of California, San Diego/VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) offers an ACT friendly APA-accredited internship. The Psychology Service at the VASDHS is part of an integrated Mental Health Service providing multidisciplinary team-based care spanning inpatient, residential, outpatient, and telehealth settings. The Psychology Service has one of the most academically oriented staff in the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital system. The Internship is comprised of 19 positions (12 at VASDHS, 7 at UC San Diego), each of which includes at least two, year-long Placements. Many of the major sub-specialties of professional psychology are represented on the staff, including clinical psychology, neuropsychology, geropsychology, marital and family therapy, substance use disorder treatment, behavioral medicine, post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, and related psychology research. At VASDHS, comprehensive mental health services are provided at the main medical center and several outpatient clinics including a new state-of-the-art outpatient clinic in Kearny Mesa, located approximately 10 miles from the medical center.
For more information about this internship site, please access their website here https://psychiatry.ucsd.edu/education-training/psychology-programs/internship.html
(This page was updated on November 17, 2022).