A central vision of the Duke Health Services Psychology Doctoral Internship Program is to provide the breadth to ensure core competencies while giving opportunities to pursue depth into a specific concentration of health service psychology.
Aims of the Internship Program
The overall aim of the program is to provide the breadth of training to ensure the development of all profession-wide competencies. Training takes place within the context and spirit of the scientist-practitioner and clinical scientist models, with the goal of producing health service psychologists who will be able to thrive in a variety of academic and health care settings.
A second aim of the program is to help interns explore and develop areas of concentration to prepare them for early career development in research, clinical work, and/or education.
Supervision & Mentoring
To enhance capabilities as a supervisor, interns participate in a monthly supervision series throughout the year. For the first half of the internship year, the series focuses on didactic training in supervision. In the second half of the year, the series shifts to the practice of supervision, with interns supervising practicum students and other clinical learners.
Early in the internship year, each intern chooses a faculty member for ongoing mentoring throughout the year about issues relevant to their professional growth (e.g., getting a postdoc or faculty position, balancing one’s life with career aspirations, etc.).
Growth Mindset
Our internship program explicitly focuses on the development of a “growth mindset” to cultivate resiliency and instill values of life-long learning. Dweck’s (2006) research demonstrates that a “growth mindset” is one that embraces challenges, learns from mistakes and feedback, and focuses on effort.
Eleven Concentration Options
Choose from among the following concentrations:
Autism
Behavioral Medicine
Cancer/Psychosocial Oncology
Child, Adolescent, and Emerging Adults
Eating Disorders
Pediatric Neuropsychology
Process-Based Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies – Adults
Process-Based Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies – Emerging Adults
Student Mental Health
Trauma
Women's Health
Visit the website for more information: https://psychiatry.duke.edu/education/health-service-psychology-doctoral-internship
Contact: Chris Mauro, PhD
Program Director
[email protected]
(Page was last updated on 1/15/2026.)