Employment

Internships

Pre-Doctoral Internships

Clinical Psychology Program

Home and Community Based Approach to Child and Family Therapy

Program Term:	July 2012 to July 2013. Stipend: $17,000. Community Services Institute will offer ten (10) full time internships for the 2012-2013 year (6 at the Springfield location and 4 at the West Roxbury location). This full time internship is an 2,000 hour, fifty-week protocol with tight requirements.
When to Apply:	1) APPIC --- It is recommended that applicants register for the Match by DECEMBER 1, 2011. 2) CSI --- Applications must be received by NOVEMBER 30, 2011. The final date by which all applicants can expect to be notified of their interview status is DECEMBER 9, 2011.
How to Apply:	1) APPIC --- Applicants who wish to register for the APPIC Internship Matching Program (the "Match") for psychology internship positions beginning in 2012 should follow the procedures outlined using the online registration system on the Match web site at www.natmatch.com/psychint. 2) CSI --- After completing registration for APPIC Match with Community Services Institute, complete the following: SEND- a) Cover Letter (indicate Program Code) b) Your Resume/CV c) Your Official Transcripts d) Letters of Reference (at least 2) MAIL TO- Community Services Institute Clinical Psychology Program 2011-2012 1695 Main St, Ste 400 Springfield, MA 01103-1348
Program Code:	205512 - 4 SLOTS - BOSTON, MA (West Roxbury)
	205513 - 6 SLOTS - SPRINGFIELD, MA
Site Code:	2055

Internship Director:	James S. Sacco, Ed.D, Massachusetts Licensed Psychologist and Health Service Provider
Email:	Info@CommunityServ.com

MAIN OFFICE	SATELLITE OFFICE
Serving Western Massachusetts	Serving Eastern Massachusetts
1695 Main St Ste 400 Springfield MA 01103 Driving directions Contact info	540 VFW Parkway West Roxbury MA 02132 Driving directions Contact info

Agency Description
Community Services Institute is a licensed private mental health clinic with twenty-two years experience providing home and community-based behavioral health services to seriously and emotionally disturbed children and their families. The agency has two locations with its parent center located in Springfield and its satellite in West Roxbury. The target population for Community Services Institute is primarily multi-problem families referred by DCS and treated with complex interventions in their homes, schools, and in the community.

Community Services Institute is licensed Massachusetts Department of Public Health Clinic. As such, it has a multi-disciplinary structure administratively overseen by a child psychiatrist, psychologist, and clinical social worker working as a team. Community Services Institute specializes in creating access for these difficult families by using clinical interventions delivered in their homes. All psychotherapy is provided under a medical model with the associated need for accurate clinical documentation of medical necessity.

Community Services Institute has been offering psychological evaluations in the areas of (a) educational, (b) trauma, and (c) disability. Psychologists also provide parenting evaluations for use in forensic cases.

Community Services Institute Training Staff
The Community Services Institute’s Clinical Psychology Pre-Doctoral Internship is directed by James S. Sacco, Ed.D a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts, and a certified Health Service Provider. Dr. Sacco has been the Chief Psychologist at Community Services Institute for the past twenty years and is a well-respected expert in the field of psychological assessments. He has had extensive experience in psychological evaluations and supervising clinical psychologists.

Frank C. Sacco, Ph.D is a recognized expert in child and family mental health as well as in child victimization with over 35 published articles and book chapters in the field of violence. He is the president of Community Services Institute and offers weekly case reviews and seminars on projective psychological testing and therapy technique. He is responsible for yearly CEU training programs as well as for psychology intern seminars on projective testing and evaluation.

Kathy McMahon, Psy.D is a Massachusetts Licensed Psychologist and Certified Health Care Provider. She will be responsible for all supervision of interns.

Robert S. Story, Ed.D is a Massachusetts licensed psychologist who is a full time staff psychologist at CSI. He will be responsible for all back-up supervision as well as any supporting consultation and seminars specifically targeting evaluation and court preparation skills.

Belser Louie, Ph.D is the West Roxbury Clinical Supervisor for psychology interns. He has worked with families, children and adolescents for over three decades, with a specialty in providing services to troubled youth who present with emotional issues, addictive disorders and aggressive profiles. In this capacity, he has directed mental health departments within city hospitals, community based agencies and schools. He is an expert in cultural diversity and working within the Asian community. Beginning his professional career as a public school educator working with special needs students, Dr. Louie has held academic appointments at the medical schools of Harvard University and Boston University and hospital appointments at Boston Medical Center and McLean Hospital. In addition, Dr. Louie has served as a Police Psychologist for various police departments in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Community Services Institute Internship Goals
1. Provide clinical interns with intensive experience in delivering highly supervised behavioral health treatment to families referred to Community Services Institute primarily because of child abuse and neglect. Interns will learn to develop strategies to intervene and stabilize families in the community. This is a clinically intense exposure to a wide spectrum of problem children and their families.

2. Community Services Institute psychology interns will to learn to administer, score, and interpret Rorschach and TAT as well as other projective drawing techniques.

3. Each intern will be trained in psychological testing for (a) educational, (b) trauma, and (c) disability.

4. Clinical Interns will learn to develop clinically sophisticated interventions with multi-problem families in their homes and work with community collaterals to treat these children with serious emotional disorders.

5. Clinical psychology interns will learn to accurately and in a timely fashion develop clinical documentation of medical necessity and treatment services provided to clients in an outpatient mental health center.

Components of the Internship Program
1. All interns will be required to provide an average of fifteen hours of face-to-face psychotherapy at fifty-minute intervals as stipulated in the state regulations for the provision of mental health treatment in a Mass Department of Public Health Clinic. Interns agree to accept upwards of twenty cases and average fifteen hours of face-to-face, fully documented therapy hours per week for a continuous 50 week period. This is a thirty-hour direct service clinical commitment.

2. Interns will be offered five cases per week to contact and will be expected to be at their designated level of service delivery within six weeks. This clinical work will become the experiences from which supervision can assist in training interns in the intricacies of developing treatment plans, or working with other agencies. The target of the supervision strongly emphasizes the development of diagnostic skills with the active cases.

3. Each psychology intern will receive two hours of individual face-to-face supervision weekly from a licensed health service provider. These supervision times will be scheduled in two hour blocks and will focus on the cases that are being treated at the Clinic.

4. The didatic day is Tuesday at the Springfield Clinic. Four (4) hours of training will include:

One (1) hour reading groups on psychotherapy & diversity
One (1) hour pro-seminar and clinical documentation
Two (2) hours testing/psychotherapy techniques

5. Interns will have access to senior staff as adjunct supervisors 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.

6. Interns will be required to participate in a pro-seminar experience at least monthly to process their experiences as interns at CSI

Research Opportunities
Interns will have the opportunity to gather data on their own clinical cases. Most cases have some type of evaluation protocols issued as part of the ongoing treatment protocol. This data could be used by students to create their own research hypotheses if necessary. Any of the new programs will require some clinical administrative assistance and interns will be offered the opportunity to participate in these new programs and asked to assist in collecting data with medical documentation.

Dr. Frank Sacco has an ongoing research experiment in Jamaica, affiliated with the International Association of Applied Psychoanalysis, that could be used by Interns as part of their learning experience or be used for dissertation projects.

Qualifications of Interns
All interns must have a master’s degree in education, psychology, or social work and be fully qualified to participate in a pre-doctoral internship. All staff must be cleared by CSI’s human relations and will be subject to the same standards as our other clinical staff at Community Services Institute. The Community Services Institute interns will be clearly identified as such in both their identification tags as well as in any clinical documentation that may appear in the medical record or in any draft or final assessment documents.

Due Process
NOTICE
CSI will notify an Intern of any problematic behavior that is beyond the scope of normal and customary clinical supervision within 72 workday-hours of the alleged violation. At least one supervision hour will be designed specifically to address the alleged problematic behavior and it will be in the clinical supervisor’s judgment to determine if it is sufficient enough to address the problem. The problem will be noted in the Supervision Log which is confidential.

HEARING
Informal: The Intern can request an Informal Second Opinion on the judgment of the clinical supervisor that would take place within 72 workday-hours and consist of an hour of additional supervision to resolve the problem presented. This also will be recorded in the Supervision Log.

Formal Hearing: The Intern may from any point request in writing a Formal Hearing. This Hearing will consist of CSI’s President and Designated Human Services Manager, Clinic Director of the site the Intern is assigned, and a CSI clinical supervisor from another site. The Hearing will be scheduled within 72 workday-hours. The Intern shall have any and all rights to question allegations and present alternative explanations of the alleged problem behavior. The results of this Hearing will be prepared and signed off on by this Hearing Committee and sent to the Intern’s Doctoral Program.

APPEAL
Should the Intern wish to appeal this decision, then, the Intern can request:

1. A formal application for a Grievance to ASARC will be provided and CSI will participate in any fashion seen fit in this Grievance protocol.

2. A special meeting with CSI President and the Doctoral Program Internship Director to review all aspects of the findings. CSI agrees to follow any suggestion that falls within the boundaries of regulations for professionals and outpatient mental health centers in Massachusetts.

GRIEVANCES
Should an Intern feel that CSI is not fulfilling their responsibilities; the Intern can either formally or informally contact CSI’s President for a review of the Grievance at any point during the Internship. The Intern can choose either a formal or an informal approach.

The Formal Approach would involve the Intern documenting in writing the deficiencies noted or the problematic supervisory actions alleged to the Clinic Director of their assigned site. Within 72 hours, the Clinic Director will meet with the Intern to discuss the alleged problem and attempt to resolve the problem. This will be documented in the Supervision Log. If the Intern is not satisfied, the Clinic Director will inform the Intern of the Grievance procedures of ASARC.

The informal approach would involve a verbal meeting face to face between the Intern and CSI’s President. This meeting would attempt to resolve the issue to the Intern;s satisfaction.

Should an intern fail to perform to the agreed upon clinical standards or be found to be unethical, Community Services Institute retains the right to terminate the internship after a due process proceeding described above.

All clinical psychology interns will be offered employment after their internships should they want to continue in a clinical capacity at Community Services Institute. No intern will be required to continue past this point and all clinical work will be transferred in an ethical fashion.