Clinical internships Psychiatry & Medical Psychology

• Six months of intensive practical experience within Psychiatry & Medical Psychology.
• Much attention is given to developing treatment skills, alongside some space for psychodiagnostics.
• Choice of three different day treatments, each with its own target group and treatment methodology.
• Supervision by a GZ-psychologist or clinical psychologist.
• Working within a multidisciplinary team in a top-clinical hospital.
• Possibility to follow a supplementary diagnostics internship after the treatment internship.

During this clinical internship, the development of your treatment skills is central. For six months, you will intern at our Utrecht location for a minimum of 32 hours per week, spread over four days. Additionally, there is some space to gain experience in psychodiagnostics.

You will intern within one of our three day treatments:

1. Person-centered day treatment and ANAP
A one-day person-centered day treatment for personality issues from a psychodynamic framework, combined with CBT group treatment for persistent physical complaints.

2. Depression and anxiety
A three-day intensively structuring, symptom-oriented day treatment for depression and anxiety, combined with a BAT day (Behavioral Activation Therapy).

3. Eating disorders
A day treatment for eating disorders, combined with the outpatient self-control group and the CBT depression group.

All day treatments consist of group treatments. Therefore, we would like to hear in your motivation letter which of the three directions you prefer.

During the internship, you will be supervised by one of our GZ-psychologists or clinical psychologists.

After successfully completing the clinical treatment internship, there is the possibility to follow a supplementary diagnostics internship of three months immediately after, or three months later.

This internship is entirely focused on psychodiagnostics and offers the opportunity to work on the diagnostic practical experience for the LOGO declaration and/or BAPD.

Upon successful completion, we will sign the LOGO Declaration of Diagnostics. BAPD supervision is not offered by our department and must, if you wish to obtain the BAPD, be organized externally by yourself.

You will intern within the Psychiatry & Medical Psychology department of the St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht.

The department consists of 37 beds, 24 chairs, an outpatient clinic, and a Psychiatric Consultative Service. We offer general clinical psychiatry and psychology and hospital psychiatry via our Medical Psychiatric Unit. Additionally, Medical Psychology supports various somatic departments within the hospital.

Within our care, depression, eating disorders, and persistent physical complaints are central, among others.

• A clinical treatment internship of six months (starting March 2027).
• At least 32 hours per week, spread over four days.
• Professional supervision by experienced GZ-psychologists and clinical psychologists.
• Practical experience within specialized group treatments.
• Possibility to transition to a supplementary diagnostics internship after completion.

A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is mandatory for all positions within the St. Antonius Hospital.

For this internship, you are following the university master's program in Clinical Psychology. Our preference is for students who have already completed their master's courses, so that there is sufficient space to focus entirely on practice during the internship.

Additionally:

• you preferably have demonstrable experience working with a vulnerable target group;
• you can reflect on your own actions and on what working with this target group evokes in you;
• you can bear responsibility within an intensive treatment environment;
• you communicate carefully with patients, supervisors, and colleagues;
• you can work independently and at the same time collaborate actively within a multidisciplinary team.

From the start of your internship, you will become a full member of the team.

At St. Antonius, you work on (highly) complex care with your heart in the right place. We are a top-clinical teaching hospital where patient care, education, and research go hand in hand. Thanks to our size, we make a real impact, but remain agile and personal.

Our clinical priorities are heart & vascular, lungs, and cancer. Additionally, we are one of the leaders in the Netherlands in the field of value-based care. This means that we do not only look at what is medically possible, but especially at what truly makes a difference for the individual patient. By structurally measuring the most important outcomes and learning together, also with the other Santeon hospitals, we make care a little bit better every day. With us, every employee, including you, makes a difference for the patient.

Do you want to gain intensive practical experience within hospital psychiatry and medical psychology during your master's in Clinical Psychology? Then we would like to meet you.

Apply before November 23. Please clearly indicate in your motivation letter which of the three day treatments you prefer.

Interviews are scheduled for December 3.

For substantive questions, you can contact dr. Dionne Kessing, clinical psychologist-psychotherapist, or Sanne de Bie, clinical psychologist-psychotherapist, via 088 320 44 00.