Thesis research is optional for Master's students. Students not completing a thesis have an additional semester of applied work. A one calendar year, full-time internship is required of doctoral students and provides further sophistication in the adoption of an applied role model that gives emphasis, focus, evaluation and more direction to a career choice in professional style and function. Internships must be completed at APA-accredited training sites. Internship sites function independently of pre-internship academic training programs.
Students bear the responsibility for applying and gaining acceptance to internship sites.
While the counseling program faculty assists students in locating internship sites, neither the UNT Psychology Department nor the counseling program assures acceptance of any particular student. The UNT Psychology Department and the counseling program have no authority over internship sites to assure that sites accommodate students wanting or needing ODA assistance. Acceptance by an internship training site is one method of confirming the student's budding promise as a professional and a counseling psychologist. Worth geographic region and the state during internship. Consideration is given to both academic and professional functioning throughout the student's association with the doctoral program in Counseling Psychology.