UBC School Psychology Internship Consortium

Purpose And Goals

The UBC School Psychology Internship Consortium was activated in the fall of 2008 and is the first of its kind in Canada. The purpose is to help meet internship program criteria by promoting the value of the internship role in the field (schools and agencies), and by providing ongoing quality practitioner-focused educational experiences.

Specific goals are to:

identify, support, and maintain field placements for interns;
provide access to highly qualified primary supervisors;
broaden exposure to secondary supervisors;
bring together interns, supervisors, site administrators and UBC faculty members in a collegial setting; and
provide an educational program including regularly scheduled didactic sessions that focus on practical, clinical and professional issues in the delivery of school psychology services in multiple settings

Internship Consortium Administration

Faculty Internship Coordinator
William McKee, Ph.D., UBC School Psychology Program Faculty Member, Assistant Professor, Director of the Psychoeducational Research & Training Centre, william.mckee@ubc.ca

Director of Training
Kenneth Cole, Ph.D., R.Psych., Certified School Psychologist, Adjunct Professor, Practicing School Psychologist, kenneth.cole@ubc.ca

Internship Program Coordinator
Dr. Barbara Holmes, Ed.D., R.Psych., Certified School Psychologist, Adjunct Professor, Practicing School Psychologist, bjholmes@interchange.ubc.ca

Internship Consortium Headquarters

The Internship Consortium office is located in the Psychoeducational Research & Training Centre (PRTC) in the Neville Scarfe building (Education) at UBC. Room 1116 Telephone 604-827-4433

Friday Internship Consortium Program

The Consortium Program constitutes regularly scheduled meetings with the purposes of bringing together, on a regular basis, all interns and primary supervisors as well as UBC School Psychology faculty members. The program includes both a didactic component and a seminar-type activity designed to engage participants in discussions related to professional practice (e.g., case studies) and experiences in the field.

For More Information Contact:

kenneth.cole@ubc.ca

UBC Faculty of Education
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, & Special Education
2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4.