Biola UniversityAdministrative Duties and Weekly Schedule
Licensure Hours
As a Biola employee, interns are granted: 23 paid holidays (including half-day bonus days) = 184 hours; 5 vacation days = 40 hours; 5 sick days = 40 hours; and 1 personal day = 8 hours. Potential hours in the full training year: 51 weeks x 40 hours = 2040. Given an internship is meant to be a year of fulltime professional work, we count holidays, sick time, professional development, and vacation as part of the overall hours accrued in the training year, just as most professional positions do, thus providing a 12-month, 2000 hour internship. If an intern were to take all available time off they would accrue 1768 hours of actual time at the office. California law requires 1500 hours of actual supervised experience, not counting holidays, vacation, etc., so the BCC internship provides ample experience for California licensure. Of the total hours, a minimum of 25% (500 of 2000 or 442 of 1768) must be in direct service activity. Interns should be aware that different states may count licensing hours differently. Information on different state licensing requirements can be found here: http://psybook.asppb.org/.
Preparation and Documentation
Interns are provided with administrative time each week for client documentation, preparation for supervision, and scholarly activities (such as reviewing existing literature on evidence-based treatments, preparing outreach presentations or educational programming, preparing their formal case presentation or professional seminar, etc.). Preparation for supervision may include reviewing recordings of their own or their supervisee’s sessions, preparing questions, and/or clinical research and completing readings.
Sample Weekly Schedule
BCC is open and operates year round, and our internship positions are full-time (40 hours per week) for 12 months, beginning in early August and ending in late July each year.
The University operates on a trimester academic calendar in which Fall runs from late August through mid-December, Spring runs from early January through early May, and Summer runs from mid-May through mid-August.
Although the exact time spent in each category may vary slightly for a particular intern, a sample schedule and a range of time committed to each area based on a 40 hour per week schedule is provided in the sample weekly intern schedule that follows.
Typical 40 Hours per Week Intern Schedule
| Direct Clinical Service Total | 20 hours per week |
| Psychotherapy (Individual, Couples, Group) Intakes & Psychological Testing | 12 hours weekly |
| On-call Crisis Assessment/Intervention | 2 hours weekly (on average) |
| Drop-in/Behavioral Health Consultation | 2 hours weekly |
| Prevention Education (Therapy Essentials) | 2 hours weekly |
| Outreach Liaison/Consultation | 1 hour weekly |
| Supervision of Practicum Student | 1 hour weekly |
| Supervision and Training Total | 12 hours per week |
| Individual Supervision (2 hours primary, 1 hour secondary) | 3 hours weekly |
| Video Group Supervision | 2 hours weekly |
| Supervision of Supervision | 1 hour weekly |
| Supervision of Groups | 1 hour weekly |
Psychological Testing Supervision |
2 hours weekly |
Professional Seminars: |
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2 hours every other week |
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2 hours every other week at the beginning of the year |
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2 hours once per month |
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2 hours every other week |
| Administrative Duties Total | 8 hours per week |
| Case Preparation & Documentation | 4 hours weekly |
| Testing Prep, Scoring & Report Writing | 2 hours every week |
| Supervision Preparation & Documentation | 1 hour weekly |
| Clinical or Scholarly Research | 1 hour weekly |