Welcome to the Massachusetts Practicum Training Collaborative!

This listing is intended to distribute information to students about clinical training sites in the Boston area and surrounds. It aims to assist students in locating sites and learning about available training positions. Students will still need to check with their academic programs before applying to sites to determine if there are restrictions on the training sites to which they can apply.

Many additional training sites have committed to using the PTC guidelines, but have not yet listed themselves on the website. If you don't see the site you are interested in, please contact them directly to learn about their application process and determine if they are adhering to the PTC guidelines, and contact your academic program training coordinator as well.

If you are a student, click on View Practicum Sites to see a full list of training sites.

To add your program as a PTC participant or to update your existing site, email massptc@gmail.com, and specify:

If you are a clinical training site or an academic program
The name(s) of your training program(s)
The name of your institution
The name of the person who can be contacted for queries, and that person's email address.

For details about the collaborative, you can Read Our Background, Policies, and Procedures. If you have general questions about the collaborative, or wish to report a problem or concern, please send and email to: massptc@gmail.com.

IMPORTANT DATES

Recommended Application Deadline: Preferred starting in mid December 2022, but due by Monday January 9, 2023

Notification Date: 8:00 AM on Monday February 13, 2023, with two hours to hold an offer

*TRAINING SITES: Click here to list any open positions as of February 14th 2023 (day after match)*

DOCTORAL STUDENTS: Click here to provide your info if you are still seeking a practicum placement starting on 2/15/23 (students may self-add information here)

Policies

Dear Training Colleagues,

As you may know, for the past several years, the Training Committee (TC) of the MPA has been developing the Practicum Training Collaborative among doctoral programs and training sites in Massachusetts and surrounding states.

The impetus for a Practicum Training Collaborative (PTC) came from students, doctoral programs and training sites, who voiced concerns about the problematic practices they had experienced and desired a system that was more organized, structured, and fair.

In response, the TC gathered information in a variety of ways, including dinner meetings among representatives of academic programs and training sites together, and separately; through surveys and other feedback; from the MPA general and Training Forum list serves and from consultation with a similar collaborative in greater New York City. We also ran a pilot program during the 2015-16 training year and gathered input from participants on their experiences Throughout, the TC and a sub-group working on the PTC, discussed the information we received and the various pros and cons of different approaches.

We now present what we believe is the best way to move forward. Although there are still details to be worked out, a number of basic ideas have emerged.

Students, academic programs and training sites want an organized collaborative system.
A transparent process and open flow of information are necessary.
A collaboration requires good will and good faith practices; however, rules and regulations and a system of accountability are also required for success.
The PTC may not be right for all programs or sites, who may choose to join or not.
Further, programs and sites may not choose to join at present and may do so in the future. They may also choose to leave the PTC if this no longer meets their needs.
A website will be useful to inform participants about the PTC, its practices, and the different options for practicum training.
Compromise will be necessary. For example, there are a variety of opinions as to what the "best" or most convenient timeline for interviewing and selecting students will be.

The MPA Training Committee will

Create and maintain a central website with PTC procedures at www.massptc.org.
Encourage training sites to advertise their training spots on the website
Reach out to training sites to disseminate these guidelines to all relevant sites

Doctoral programs are asked to

Reach out to sites they have worked with before and ask them to participate
Ask students where they want to apply for next year and reach out to those sites to ask them to participate in the PTC
Consider discouraging their students from applying to non-participating sites
Consider requiring students to apply only to participating sites
Ask their training sites to use the central website at www.massptc.org.
Clarify with training sites which students are being placed into reserved spots (and not applying elsewhere) and which students are applying for competitive training spots and thus competing with other students (the PTC applies only to competitive spots)
Provide support to students who are applying, e.g., lists of current and recent placements so students can see where students have trained before, meetings or email groups where students can exchange information, assistance with CV and applications, etc.
Approve practicum sites for each student in advance
Help students consider the pros and cons of various sites, to help them get ready for the notification day so that each student can quickly accept an offer without having to check back with faculty
Designate a faculty member such as a Director of Clinical Training or Practicum Coordinator to be available on the notification day to help students navigate decision making quickly if needed
Communicate to their students that they are asked to follow the guidelines (below)
Remind students that there is no such thing as a perfect practicum site
We want to remind doctoral program faculty members that the proposed guidelines do not apply to training spots such as a faculty member's research study, to "in-house training clinics" maintained by the doctoral program, or to students who are being placed at a site and not applying elsewhere.

Training sites are asked to

Use the PTC guidelines if interviewing multiple students or even a single student who is applying to multiple sites (who will therefore benefit from receiving all offers on one day)
Create a profile on the central website at www.massptc.org.
Confirm with students when they receive an application, provide several options for interview dates, and tell students as early as possible if they will not be receiving an invitation to interview
Set your application deadline no earlier than Monday January 10th, 2022, with applications preferred starting in mid-December
Use the Monday, Feb. 13th, 2023 notification date: Inform all students of offer, waitlist status, or rejection between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM EST.
Ask students to confirm by email that they received the offer right away
Remember that there is no perfect trainee and hold "rankings" lightly
Notify via email all students they interviewed as soon as they have filled all training spots
Participating sites are encouraged to respond to students asking about their status and tell them where they stand if the student has a bona fide early offer in hand (in writing/email) from a non-participating site.

Students are asked to

Work closely with faculty to get approval for each site applied to upfront
Discuss pros and cons of each site with faculty ahead of notification day
Confirm that they received the offer right away
Hold only one offer at a time and release back additional offers right away
Confirm whether they will accept, release, or hold an offer within 20 minutes of the email being received, and understand that after 20 minutes the site is free to make offers to other candidates.
Remember that there is no perfect training site
Notify all other sites they interviewed at as soon as they have accepted an offer

Site Notification Day: Monday Feb 13, 2023

Sites will inform (by phone and/or email) all students they interviewed whether they are getting an offer, are on the wait-list, or are no longer under consideration, between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM, Eastern Standard Time.
If a site attempts to make an offer to an applicant by phone but does not reach the applicant (consequently leaving a voice message), the site should immediately send the applicant an email with the offer.
Students will confirm whether they will accept, release, or hold an offer within 20 minutes of the email being sent.
If a site does not receive the above confirmation of receiving the offer from a candidate within 20 minutes of the email being sent, it is free to make offers to other candidates.
Students are allowed to hold only ONE offer at any one time. The maximum amount of time a student can hold an offer is 2 hours from when the offer was verbally communicated by phone or emailed.
Sites will go down their lists until they have filled all their spots.
Once a student has accepted an offer, they will immediately (within 5 minutes) inform all other sites where theyi nterviewed that they have accepted an offer elsewhere.
Once a site has filled all of its training slots, it will immediately (within 5 minutes) inform all other students interviewed that all training spots are full.
Sites are encouraged to contact doctoral programs directly to share that they still have open spots. The Training Forum list serve is also available for such communications.
Doctoral programs will continue to support students still looking for placements.

Send Us An Email for More Information

Click Here To Email

The MPA Training Committee

Fairlee Fabrett, Chair (McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School)

Sidney Trantham, Web Coordinator (Boston College) - please email MASSPTC@GMAIL.COM for any MassPTC webiste change requests

Training Sites

Bentley University Counseling Center - Clinical Training Program

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cognitive Neurology Unit

Boston Behavioral Medicine

Boston Children's Hosptial - Division of Developmental Medicine

Boston Prep

Boston Vet Center

Bradley Hospital, Adolescent Inpatient Program

Bradley Hospital; Adolescent Inpatient - Early Psychosis

Bradley Hospital, Children's Inpatient Program

Bradley Hospital, Children's Partial Hospital Program

Brandeis University, Brandeis Counseling Center

Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital – Adult Inpatient Psychiatry

Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Adult Ambulatory Psychology Advanced Practicum Training Program

Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Neuropsychology Practicum Training Program

Brookline Center for Community Mental Health

Coordinators:

Phil Laidlaw, Psy.D.
Delon Isom, Ph.D. NCSP
Jeff Brand, Psy.D.

Butler Hospital, Neuropsychology Practicum (Adult or Adolescent focus)

Athene Lee, Ph.D. (Adult Focus)
Karen Holler, Ph.D. (Adolescent Focus)
website

Cambridge Health Alliance - Child and Adolescent Inpatient Training

Cambridge Health Alliance - Primary Care Behavioral Health

Center for Early Detection, Assessment and Response to Risk

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health)

Charles River Community Health

Chelmsford Public Schools, Psychology Training Program

Daniel W. Rosa, Ph.D.

Children's Neuropsychological Services (CNS)

Clark University Center for Counseling and Personal Growth

Clearview Horizons' Intensive Program (CHIP)

Kimberly Leonte, Ph.D.

Clifford Beers

Community Services Institute (CSI) - Dorchester, MA location

Community Services Institute (CSI) - Springfield, MA location

The Concord Center

Concord Comprehensive Neuropsychology Services, Concord, MA

Counseling and Psychological Services, Counselor Training Program, Eastern Connecticut State Univers

Devereux Massachusetts & Rhode Island Practicum Training Program

Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center/Tufts Medical Center

Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital (Bedford VA)

Emmanuel College Counseling Center

The Baker Center for Children and Families - Center for Effective Therapy (CET)

The Baker Center for Children and Families – Manville School

Endicott College Counseling Center

Karen Tompkins, LICSW

Federal Medical Center Devens

Kelly Fricker, Psy.D.

Hampshire College Health & Counseling Services

Health Integration Practicum for Doctoral Level Psychology Students

(Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center, Nashua, NH)

L.U.K., Inc.

Lesley University Counseling Center

Lighthouse School, Inc.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Counseling and Wellness Center

Massachusetts Mental Health Center

McLean - Franciscan Children's Hospital - Outpatient Behavioral Health

McLean - Franciscan Community Based Acute Treatment (CBAT) Program

McLean Anxiety Mastery Program

McLean Hospital - Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program

McLean Hospital - Child & Adolescent Inpatient Program

McLean Hospital - Child and Adolescent OCD Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.)

McLean Hospital OCD Institute (OCDI)

McLean Hospital - SouthEast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment Program and Partial Hospital Trea

McLean Hospital - SouthEast at Oak Adolescent Inpatient Unit

McLean Hospital, Joint Position with the 3 East Outpatient and PHP DBT Programs

MGH - Chelsea Health Center- Behavioral Health Training Program

Tamara Leaf, Psy.D.

MGH - Eating Disorders Psychology Advanced Practicum Program

Imani Weeks

MGH - Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR)

MGH - Home Base

MGH - Psychology Assessment Center (MGH PAC)

Sigurros (Rosa) Davidsdottir, Ph.D.

MGH - Resilience and Prevention Program and CHR for psychosis

MGH - Shriners Hospital for Children

MGH - The Lurie Center for Autism

Natchaug Hospital, Psychological Services Department

Newton Public Schools

Gordon Weiner, Ph.D.

Providence College Counseling Center

Psychological Assessment and Consultation Associates LLC

Rhode Island College Counseling Center

Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children’s Hospital Pediatric Psychology Practicum

The SPARK Center, Boston Medical Center

Trinity Boston Connects

Tufts Medical Center Outpatient Psychiatry

Tufts Medical Center, Center for Children with Special Needs (CCSN)

UMASS Adolescent Continuing Care Unit

Remy Yoshida, Psy.D.