Practicum & Internship Opportunities – Pediatric School Psychology
Year 1 – Pre-Practicum Experiences in Schools & PASS Clinic
Year 2 – School Practicum partnerships with area K-12 districts + PASS Clinic
Year 3 & 4 – PASS Clinic + Advanced Practicum Sites*
*Sites subject to change based on availability of supervisors; new sites developed over time.
ECU PASS Clinic: Pediatric Service (PEDS) – Drs. Thurneck, Walcott, Golden
Practicum Location: ECU PASS Clinic
Description of Role: Psychoeducational assessments and treatment of emotional and behavioral concerns. Experiences in psycho-educational evaluations of children and youth with possible ADHD/learning or developmental disorders or those seeking testing for gifted education placements. Experiences with behavioral assessment, therapeutic intervention, and application of various intervention techniques, manualized treatment packages and function-based interventions.
ECU Health Outpatient Clinics – Drs. Long & Baudino
Practicum Location: Greenville, NC
Description of Role: Treatment and assessment in outpatient settings. There are opportunities to work with pediatric patients in NICU Follow up Clinic and Outpatient HEM/ONC Clinics, with other opportunities currently in development.
Cherry Hospital – Varies
Practicum Location: Goldsboro, NC
Description of Role: Psychological assessments, case conceptualization, and some therapy experiences. This is an inpatient hospital that serves regional referrals for psychiatric cases. There is an adolescent unit.
Behavior Consultation & Psychological Services, PLLC (BCPS) – E. Stuart, LPA & J. Cone, LPA, Clinical Directors
Practicum Location: Greenville, NC
Description of Role: Applied behavior intervention for clients with autism and developmental disabilities. Comprehensive ABA programs in home settings to support skill development across multiple areas of social, communication, behavior, academic and life & safety skills.
ECU Family Medicine – Drs. Carraway, Carels, Huerta
Practicum Location: Greenville, NC
Description of Role: Integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health interventions, and other health and treatment services with rural and underserved patients. Collaboration with medical professionals, including nurses and doctors, to provide integrated care consultations and therapy services, and participation in additional rotations as available.
Wake Med – Drs. Chancey & Tomasula
Practicum Location: Raleigh, NC
Description of Role: Opportunities for several rotations, including pediatric Gastroenterology, where students conduct intake interviews and provide CBT with patients with disorders of gut-brain interaction, Crohn’s disease, encopresis, and ARFID. Also a Weight Management Clinic, where students work with patients and families to develop and monitor healthy lifestyle change goals.
Tidal Integrated Behavioral Health – Drs. Bond & Ford
Practicum Location: Greenville, NC & Area pediatrician practices
Description of Role: Assess and treat a variety of mental health conditions, such as behavior and attention issues, autism, anxiety, depression, sleep and toileting issues. There are opportunities for group sessions where children of like ages practice relaxation, social skills, study habits, and coping mechanisms. Opportunity for integrated care services.
School-Based Mental Health – Dr. Walcott
Practicum Location: Area school districts with whom we develop grant or contract-based services
Description of Role: Screening and assessment of mental health status in K12 students; providing behavioral intervention and individual and group therapy for students; collaborating and consulting with members of Support Teams regarding students; collecting and recording data regarding the impact of school-based mental health services.
Year 5 – Internship Sites for Recent Graduates
- Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE – Pediatric Psychology & Child Clinical/Community tracks
- Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH – Autism Treatment
- Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA – Pediatric Integrated Primary Care
- Mid-Michigan Psychology Internship Consortium, East Lansing, MI – Michigan Medicine – Department of Pediatrics
- Cherokee Health Systems, Seymour, TN – Psychology Internship
- Nebraska Internship Consortium, Lincoln, NE – Munroe-Meyer Institute Behavioral Pediatrics
- Illinois School Psychology Internship Consortium, Normal, IL – DRES/University High School & Southeastern Illinois System of Care tracks
- University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN – Neuropsychology-Pediatric Psychology
- Milton Hershey School, Hershey, PA – Psychology Internship
- Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE – Integrated Behavioral Health
- VA Maryland Health Care System/Univ of Maryland, Baltimore, MD – UM Child Inpatient and Pediatric Consult-Liaison