Externship and Practicum Training

We recommend and ask the externship training sites cooperate with the following guidelines:

1. Externships should not exceed 16 hours in a two day block and without the necessity of taking work home. The stress level for students should be minimized when possible.

2. Individual face-to-face supervision should be no less than 25% of the time spent in service-related activities (i.e., treatment, assessment, interviews, report-writing, case presentations, and consultations).

3. If there are set times when externs must be at the training facility (e.g. staff meeting every Thursday, 9-11 am.), externship directors should let this be known at the time of interviews.

4. Stipends for externs are encouraged.

5. Externship offers will be made starting 9:00 am on April 2, 2012 and must be accepted or rejected by 1:00 pm on that day.

6. Externship sites do not provide students with information regarding their status or rankings prior to 9:00 am on the notification day. 

7. Students do not attempt to elicit information from sites regarding their status or ranking prior to the notification day. 

8. On notification day, no student shall hold more than one offer for more than two hours.

9. A candidate who is no longer being considered by an externship  site should be notified by the site at the earliest possible date in advance of April 2. However, sites do not contact any students under consideration  to provide their status or ranking in advance of the notification date.

10.  Contracts between the university or school and training facilities should be executed as early as possible after the notification day.

Participating Doctoral Programs and Program Directors

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Required Regular Training Activities

Supplementary Activities

*Depending upon experience