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Psychology & Social Work Internships in Chile

by: Adelante Abroad

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Build a strong foundation in psychology or social work through real-world experience in Chile. In Chile, study how social, cultural, and environmental factors influence human behavior (this can’t be learned in a classroom). Adelante Abroad’s affordable internships in Viña del Mar and Valparaíso engage students with local communities while living in one of South America’s most vibrant regions. Work with organizations focused on LGBTQ+ advocacy, cancer support, addiction recovery, and child welfare. Ideal for undergraduates preparing for grad school or certification, interns are placed in research-based academic or clinical settings and have supervised, hands-on interaction with the local population. Intern approximately 4 hours per day, Monday through Friday, leaving plenty of time to dive into culture. Enjoy afternoons exploring Viña del Mar’s beautiful beaches, sampling local cuisine, or discovering the colorful street art of Valparaíso. If you’re looking for a psychology or social work internship that combines hands-on experience, cultural immersion, and service-based learning, Adelante Abroad’s programs are an ideal fit. Submit a $325 application deposit to secure your spot!

Program Highlights

Cost Effective – Adelante Abroad programs are some of the most economical on the market.

Housing is Provided – live like a local in your own room in a centrally located apartment or in a homestay with a local family (this option includes meals so inquire for price difference).

Improve your Spanish – Brush up on your Spanish skills before you are launched into your Spanish internship. 2 weeks of intensive classes are included.

Internship placement guaranteed – Interns for this program will work in research-based settings for different populations of people.

Travel opportunities – There are several half or full day cultural excursions included in program cost. Take advantage of these or travel on the weekends.

Quick Details

Locations:
  • Valparaiso, Chile
  • Vina del Mar, Chile
Starts At: $3,625 for 2 Months
Availability
Year(s) Offered: Year RoundIntern Duration:
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • Spring
  • 1-3 Months
  • 3-6 Months
  • Fall
Age Requirement: 18-30
Types & Subjects
Fields:
  • Counseling
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
Types:
  • Experiential Learning
  • Internships
Guidelines
Nationalities:
  • Albanian
  • American
  • Andorran
  • Angolan
  • Antarctica
  • Antiguan & Barbudan
  • Argentinian
  • Armenian
  • Aruban
  • Asian
  • Australian
  • Austrian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bahamian
  • Bahraini
  • Bangladeshi
  • Barbadian
  • Basotho
  • Belarusian
  • Belgian
  • Belizean
  • Beninese
  • Bermudian
  • Bhutanese
  • Bissau-Guinean
  • Bolivian
  • Bonaire
  • Bosnian
  • Botswana
  • Brazilian
  • British
  • British Virgin Islander
  • Bruneian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burkinabe
  • Cambodian
  • Canadian
  • Cape Verdean
  • Caymanian
  • Central African
  • Chadian
  • Channel Islander
  • Chilean
  • Chinese
  • Colombian
  • Comoran
  • Congolese
  • Cook Islander
  • Costa Rican
  • Creole
  • Croatian
  • Cuban
  • Curacao
  • Cypriot
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Djibouti
  • Dominican
  • Dutch
  • Ecuadorian
  • Egyptian
  • Emirati
  • English
  • Equatorial Guinean
  • Eritrean
  • Estonian
  • European
  • Fijian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Gabonese
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Gibraltarian
  • Greek
  • Greenlandic
  • Grenadian
  • Guadeloupian
  • Guatemalan
  • Guinean
  • Guyanese
  • Hawaiian
  • Honduran
  • Hungarian
  • I-Kiribati
  • Icelandic
  • Indian
  • Indonesian
  • Irish
  • Israeli
  • Italian
  • Ivorian
  • Jamaican
  • Japanese
  • Jordanian
  • Kazakhstani
  • Kittitian, Nevisian
  • Kiwi
  • Korean
  • Kuwaiti
  • Kyrgyzstani
  • Lao or Laotian
  • Latvian
  • Lebanese
  • Libyan
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuanian
  • Luxembourg
  • Macedonian
  • Malagasy
  • Malaysian
  • Maldivian
  • Malian
  • Maltese
  • Manx
  • Marshallese
  • Martiniquais
  • Mauritanian
  • Mauritian
  • Mexican
  • Micronesian
  • Moldovan
  • Monegasque
  • Mongolian
  • Montenegrin
  • Montserratian
  • multi
  • Myanmar
  • Nauruan
  • Nepalese
  • New Caledonian
  • Ni-Vanuatu
  • Nicaraguan
  • Niuean
  • Norwegian
  • Omani
  • Palauan
  • Palestinian
  • Panamanian
  • Papua New Guinean
  • Paraguayan
  • Peruvian
  • Polish
  • Polynesian
  • Portuguese
  • Puerto Rican
  • Qatari
  • Reunionese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Saban
  • Sahrawian, Sahraouian
  • Saint Helenian
  • Saint Lucian
  • Saint Vincentian or Vincentian
  • Salvadoran
  • Sammarinese
  • Samoan
  • Sao Tomean
  • Saudi Arabian
  • Scottish
  • Senegalese
  • Serbian
  • Serbian; Montenegrin
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leonean
  • Singaporean
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Solomon Islander
  • South African
  • South Sudanese
  • Spanish
  • Sri Lankan
  • St. Barts
  • Statian
  • Sudanese
  • Surinamese
  • Swazi
  • Swedish
  • Swiss
  • Syrian
  • Tahiti
  • Taiwanese
  • Tajikistani
  • Tanzanian
  • Thai
  • The Vatican
  • Tibet
  • Timorese
  • Togolese
  • Tongan
  • Trinidadian, Tobagonian
  • Tunisian
  • Turkish
  • Turkmen
  • Turks and Caicos
  • Tuvaluan
  • Ukrainian
  • Venezuelan
  • Vietnamese
  • Virgin Islander
  • Welsh
  • Yemeni
  • Uruguayan
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Last Updated: Aug 11, 2026

Awards

2025 Finalist - People’s ChoiceGoAbroad Innovation Awards 2024 Finalist - People’s Choice

Program Reviews

Hear what past participants have to say about the programs

Overall Rating

5

Total Reviews

1

An insightful experience

May 26, 2022by: Victoria Cervantes
5

First, I would like to start with verifying that Adelante is a legit agency, and I will do so because I was worried at the beginning that these opportunities were a fraud. But they weren't!! I'll leave this info just in case anyone else has the same doubts that I had. I took an internship on social work in Chile, and it turned out to be one magical experience after the other. I travelled to San Pedro de Atacama, Santiago, La Serena, huilo huilo, and Puerto Varas, and I can tell you that all of them are so beautiful that they must be on everyone's bucket list. My work environment was awesome, and my coworkers made feel welcomed all the time. Just watch out the chilenismos because some are very difficult to understand. Jokes aside, I am very glad I had the chance to take this opportunity because it was amazing and insightful. My internship allowed me to refine my social skills, but most importantly, I also learned a lot of things about myself. Things that I thought I was not going to be able to do, I did them anyway. I travelled around Chile almost very weekend as I mentioned, and for me, that had a huge impact because it was the first time I had to plan all the trip, search for hotels, and make the reservations by my own. Those experiences may seem trivial, but you will later see that you can apply every little thing you learn even in your work environment, as it happened to me. If you are planning to take an internship abroad, take it. You can only gain and learn more about the history of a country, its culture, and its people.

Program Details

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Locations

  • Valparaiso, Chile
  • Vina del Mar, Chile

Types and Subjects

  • Fields
  • Counseling
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
  • Types
  • Experiential Learning
  • Internships

Availability

Years Offered: Year Round

Intern Duration:
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • Spring
  • 1-3 Months
  • 3-6 Months
  • Fall
Gap Year Timing:
  • After College
  • Career Break / Mid-Career
  • During College
  • Post High School

Age Requirement

18-30

Guidelines

Nationalities:
  • Albanian
  • American
  • Andorran
  • Angolan
  • Antarctica
  • Antiguan & Barbudan
  • Argentinian
  • Armenian
  • Aruban
  • Asian
  • Australian
  • Austrian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bahamian
  • Bahraini
  • Bangladeshi
  • Barbadian
  • Basotho
  • Belarusian
  • Belgian
  • Belizean
  • Beninese
  • Bermudian
  • Bhutanese
  • Bissau-Guinean
  • Bolivian
  • Bonaire
  • Bosnian
  • Botswana
  • Brazilian
  • British
  • British Virgin Islander
  • Bruneian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burkinabe
  • Cambodian
  • Canadian
  • Cape Verdean
  • Caymanian
  • Central African
  • Chadian
  • Channel Islander
  • Chilean
  • Chinese
  • Colombian
  • Comoran
  • Congolese
  • Cook Islander
  • Costa Rican
  • Creole
  • Croatian
  • Cuban
  • Curacao
  • Cypriot
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Djibouti
  • Dominican
  • Dutch
  • Ecuadorian
  • Egyptian
  • Emirati
  • English
  • Equatorial Guinean
  • Eritrean
  • Estonian
  • European
  • Fijian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Gabonese
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Gibraltarian
  • Greek
  • Greenlandic
  • Grenadian
  • Guadeloupian
  • Guatemalan
  • Guinean
  • Guyanese
  • Hawaiian
  • Honduran
  • Hungarian
  • I-Kiribati
  • Icelandic
  • Indian
  • Indonesian
  • Irish
  • Israeli
  • Italian
  • Ivorian
  • Jamaican
  • Japanese
  • Jordanian
  • Kazakhstani
  • Kittitian, Nevisian
  • Kiwi
  • Korean
  • Kuwaiti
  • Kyrgyzstani
  • Lao or Laotian
  • Latvian
  • Lebanese
  • Libyan
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuanian
  • Luxembourg
  • Macedonian
  • Malagasy
  • Malaysian
  • Maldivian
  • Malian
  • Maltese
  • Manx
  • Marshallese
  • Martiniquais
  • Mauritanian
  • Mauritian
  • Mexican
  • Micronesian
  • Moldovan
  • Monegasque
  • Mongolian
  • Montenegrin
  • Montserratian
  • multi
  • Myanmar
  • Nauruan
  • Nepalese
  • New Caledonian
  • Ni-Vanuatu
  • Nicaraguan
  • Niuean
  • Norwegian
  • Omani
  • Palauan
  • Palestinian
  • Panamanian
  • Papua New Guinean
  • Paraguayan
  • Peruvian
  • Polish
  • Polynesian
  • Portuguese
  • Puerto Rican
  • Qatari
  • Reunionese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Saban
  • Sahrawian, Sahraouian
  • Saint Helenian
  • Saint Lucian
  • Saint Vincentian or Vincentian
  • Salvadoran
  • Sammarinese
  • Samoan
  • Sao Tomean
  • Saudi Arabian
  • Scottish
  • Senegalese
  • Serbian
  • Serbian; Montenegrin
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leonean
  • Singaporean
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Solomon Islander
  • South African
  • South Sudanese
  • Spanish
  • Sri Lankan
  • St. Barts
  • Statian
  • Sudanese
  • Surinamese
  • Swazi
  • Swedish
  • Swiss
  • Syrian
  • Tahiti
  • Taiwanese
  • Tajikistani
  • Tanzanian
  • Thai
  • The Vatican
  • Tibet
  • Timorese
  • Togolese
  • Tongan
  • Trinidadian, Tobagonian
  • Tunisian
  • Turkish
  • Turkmen
  • Turks and Caicos
  • Tuvaluan
  • Ukrainian
  • Venezuelan
  • Vietnamese
  • Virgin Islander
  • Welsh
  • Yemeni
  • Uruguayan

This Program is also open to Solo, Group

Starts At

  • 2 Months: $3,625

Program Cost Includes

  • Accommodation / Housing for Program Duration
  • Airport Transfer (Pick-Up)
  • On-Site / In-Country Staff Support
  • Pre-Departure Orientation
  • In-Country Orientation
  • Language Lessons
  • Emergency Support
  • Internship Placement
  • Some Program Activity Costs
  • Wifi Costs
  • Letter of Recommendation
  • Academic Credit

Program Cost Excludes

  • Domestic Airfare
  • International Airfare
  • Weekend Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
  • Weekday Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
  • Some Meals / Partial Meal Plan
  • In-Country Transportation To & From Project
  • Public Transportation Pass
  • Airport Transfer (Drop-Off)

Payment Terms

  • Upfront Deposit

Refund Policy

Refund with conditions

View Refund Policy

Accommodation Options

  • Apartment/Flat
  • Group living
  • Home-stays

Qualifications & Experience

      Accepted Education Levels

    • University Freshman (1st Year)
    • University Sophomore (2nd Year)
    • University Junior (3rd Year)
    • University Senior (4th Year)
    • University 5th Year or More
    • High school graduate, diploma or the equivalent (for example: GED)
    • Some college credit, no degree
    • Trade/technical/vocational training
    • Associate degree
    • Bachelor’s degree
    • Master’s degree

    Application Procedures

    • Letters of Reference
    • Phone/Video Interview
    • Resume
    • Online Application

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Are the Adelante Abroad Internships in Chile paid?

    No, the internships in Chile are unpaid. These are structured, academic-focused internships designed to provide meaningful, real-world experience in your field of study. Participants gain valuable exposure to social work and psychology practices in a cross-cultural setting, often working directly with local communities and organizations. The emphasis is on learning, professional development, and cultural immersion.

    What kind of housing is provided?

    Participants stay in a private room within a local home, giving you an authentic Chilean experience. Housing is conveniently located near public transportation and carefully selected based on proximity to your internship site.

    What is the typical duration of an internship in Chile?

    Psychology and Social Work Internship durations range from 2 to 6 months, with programs starting on the first Monday of each month.

    Do I need to speak Spanish?

    Low-intermediate Spanish speakers are welcome! Having a B1 low-intermediate level of Spanish helps; you’ll be able to fully participate in your internship and daily activities.

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