Also referred to as clinical supervision, psychology supervision training requires students to demonstrate proficiency in cognitive-behavioral, life span, systemic and psychodynamic approaches to treatment. Interns must participate in peer review sessions and engage in supervised research of various aspects of clinical psychology. Some programs also offer specialist training in the disciplines of psychotherapy process outcome and research, clinical health psychology, neurorehabilitation and eating disorders.
Psychology supervision training detects any deficiencies in a student's training before graduation and satisfies state and national guidelines for board certification and licensing.
State and private universities offer psychology supervision training to students with a postgraduate degree in psychology who have received clinically relevant practical experience after graduation. Schools will consider a student with a postgraduate degree in a subject other than psychology if he completes relevant conversion courses.