There are numerous internship opportunities for psychology majors who take part in the College’s Washington Semester Program. These include:
United States Congress
- Congressional Committees and Sub-Committees
Department of Health and Human Services
Many offices/divisions, for example:
- Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Administration for Children and Families
National Institutes of Health
Many offices/divisions, for example:
- National Institutes of Mental Health
- Special Populations
- Developmental Psychopathology and Prevention Research
- Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science
- Behavioral and Social Science Research
Other Organizations in D.C.
- Administration on Aging
- Administration on Developmental Disabilities
- Alzheimer’s Association
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Bar Assoc. – Committee on Mental and Physical Disabilities Law
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychological Association
- Anxiety Disorders Association of America
- Association of Black Psychologists
- Children’s Defense Fund
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
- National Consortium for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- National Health Council
- National Health Council
- National Sleep Foundation
- SIECUS – Sexuality Information Education Council of U.S.
- Suicide Prevention Action Network
- The Treatment Advocacy Center