Category: Gil Interns

This semester as a Gil intern I’ve been working at Veritas Collaborative, an eating disorder treatment facility in Durham. I’ve spent almost all of my time on the inpatient & residential unit, which is comprised of kids and adolescents ages … Read more

As an intern at the Neurocognition and Imaging Research Lab (NIRL), part of UNC’s medical school, I have had the opportunity to see disorder research firsthand. Not only have I been able to see the research process all along the … Read more

During my semester as an intern at innovation Research and Training (iRT), I have gained interesting insight into some of the work that lies between the boundaries of research and applied psychology. I came into the company as they were … Read more

I spend 9 hours a week with adolescents with eating disorders at Veritas Collaborative, a treatment center offering inpatient, residential, and partial hospitalization levels of care to patients ages 10 to 19. I’ve gone through numerous trainings, learned how to … Read more

This semester as a quantitative Gil Intern, I was placed at RTI International. In all honesty, I was rather nervous with this placement as I knew RTI was a massive company that did research in virtually every possible domain. I … Read more

TEACCH and the Culture of Autism Autism has been at the headlines of newspapers and media sites as the topic of discussion, but many people still fail to understand the disorder and how to “treat it.” I use the words … Read more

Upon arriving at Horizon Performance for my first day as an intern, I couldn’t help but question whether I was cut out for the job. As a psychology/biology major with an interest in social psychology research, I wondered how I … Read more

In my internship with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, I work at Polk Correctional Institution, a men’s prison in Butner, North Carolina. With my supervisor, Dr. Peiper, the prison psychologist at Polk, I gather information on the mental … Read more

My experience as a Gil Intern is one that I will forever count as one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I am a clinical intern at Lepage Associates Psychiatric and Psychological Services in Durham, which is a … Read more

My internship placement is at Cognitive Psychiatry of Chapel Hill, where I am currently leading a research study on the efficacy of brain training devices in treating the symptoms of adult ADHD, particularly its use in a clinical setting. While … Read more