Dear Future Interns…..

During your three month internship at Samutthāna, we aim to provide you with a comprehensive and individualized psychosocial skills training with appropriate exposure to various mental health services that would enhance and diversify your theoretical knowledge and understandings of Psychology.  

Objectives

• Encouragement to articulate your theoretical understanding about problems in human behaviour and their therapeutic treatment.
• Induce respect and appreciation for individual and group differences.
• Instil a higher level of understanding of ethical principles and its integration into mental health practice.

Our Unique Internship Programme:

Samutthāna offers a comprehensive psychosocial Internship for three months on fulltime basis with exceptional opportunities to gain firsthand experience on various aspects pertaining to therapy, education and rehabilitation/skills training. The selected interns will be provided access to psychiatric wards, Special-needs school, drug rehab centre etc.., that will uplift the theoretical knowledge through direct observation and appropriate involvement with supervision. The selected group will be proceeding with the placement according to a structured schedule that involves interactive sessions at esteemed institutions such as the ‘Kalubowila Hospital Psychiatric Unit’, ‘Lady Ridgeway Hospital Child Psychiatric Unit’, ‘Lunawa Base hospital Psychiatric Unit/Addiction Clinic’, ‘Judicial Medical Office Psychiatric Support Unit’, ‘Asha Trust Centre for Underprivileged Children’ and the ‘Rehabilitation Centre for the Communication Impaired’. As this is a fulltime Internship programme, they have designated number of hours to engage in project work, training and administrative tasks at Samutthana.