Remote internship in developmental psychology, organizational psychology, psychological Covid-19 counseling

The internship is provided by a psychological center in Navi Mumbai run by a psychologist who is known in India as a television psychologist and writer.

In the center around 30% of the work is on career counseling, 40% on children with learning difficulties (e.g. dyslexia, ADD) and 30% is psychological counseling for individuals and corporate customers (organizational psychology).

The three subject areas from which online interns can choose are

* Developmental Psychology (children with learning difficulties)
* Organizational psychology (training and human resources)
* Advice on mental health problems related to the Covid-19 pandemic

Developmental psychology

The services are aimed at children who suffer from a lack of concentration, daydreaming, learning disabilities, laziness, poor spelling and lack of motivation. The weaknesses are identified and worked on in individual and group sessions, e.g. Fine motor skills, visual motor coordination, reading vocabulary comprehension and arithmetic; parents and teachers are also involved. What is special about this program is that the children receive these skills building activities in a playful way. The facility is a training partner of Pearson Clinical Assessments.

As an online intern, you will receive an individual learning plan with tasks. You will familiarize yourself with concepts such as WRAT-4, MMPI, Vineland-2, Schonell, WISC-4 and FIRO-B, learn how to select, carry out and interpret the results, and you will analyze case studies and discuss them with your internship supervisor.

Organizational Psychology:

a. Recruitment support for job interviews, personality mapping
b. Employee motivation and wellbeing
c. Development of strategies for employee loyalty
d. Employee ratings based on MBTI / 16PF / Firo-B, BEI, etc.
e. Competency assignment
f. KPI / KRA / PMS
G. Training of leadership skills
H. MBTI-based conflict management and team development programs
i. Operational succession planning

COVID-19 mental support

The tasks for interns include the online survey of hospital employees who deal with a large number of Covid-19 patients and developing training for employers to support them in mentally coping with difficult situations, conversations with Covid-19 patients and their family members and discussing your observations on related mental health issues and therapeutic approaches with your supervisor.