General Procedures

(in these documents the supervising UALR faculty is referred to as the "faculty supervisor," the agent supervising at the internship site is referred to as the "internship mentor)"

 

Options for faculty
 

a) Refer interested students to the Internship Coordinator Dr. David Mastin at (501) 569-3171 or (501) 371-7548 or email dfmastin@ualr.edu
 

b) Act as an Internship Supervisor

 

Procedures for acting as an internship supervisor:
 

1) Review the following documents
-Standard Internship Syllabus
-Internship Site Application

-Internship Mentor Contract

-Internship Individualized Instruction Contract

2) Provide your students with a syllabus and ask your student to carefully read it
 

3) Determine whether you student has selected an internship site
 

If yes-

Determine whether this site has a completed and approved Internship Site Application on file with the internship coordinator
if true- provide your student with a Internship Mentor Contract to be completed by the internship site mentor and returned to you
if false- provide your student with an Internship Site Application to be completed by the internship mentor and returned to the internship coordinator  
 

If no- refer your student to the Psychology Internship Student Page (http://www.ualr.edu/psycinfo/stud1a.html ) and the Psychology Internship Site Resource Page (http://www.ualr.edu/psycinfo/sites1a.html). Return to number three above once your student has selected an internship site.

 

4) Have your student complete an Internship Individualized Instruction Contract

 

5) Make midterm contact with your student's internship mentor

-formally via a Mid-Term Internship Mentor Feedback Form

-informally via phone, letter, or in-person
 

6) Make midterm contact with your student

 

7) Make end-term contact with your student's internship mentor using the End-Term Internship Mentor Feedback Form

 

8) Make end-term contact with your student

 

9) Evaluate your student as per the Internship Individualized Instruction Contract