William James College

Thank you for your interest in William James College. For more than 40 years, our talented faculty and dedicated staff have been educating professionals to bring psychological theory and skills to businesses and organizations, health care systems, correctional facilities, community mental health centers, schools and consulting rooms. Evolving from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, ours is a college that is committed to educational excellence in applied psychology and to developing the next generation of culturally sensitive professionals to make a difference in our community.

With 75% of children failing to receive necessary mental health care;businesses and organizations requiring leadership and alignment of needs to create healthy and productive work environments;anywhere from 18-30% of our troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan experiencing significant anxiety, depression and substance abuse disorders; 80% of those in prison estimated to have mental illness and less than 2% of mental health providers able to offer language and culturally sensitive mental health services, there is a critical need to attract and to educate professionals with strong sense of Social Responsibility. James' unfailing emphasis on practical psychology informs the curricula of each of our major departments and encourages graduates to look towards service to the community.

With nine degrees in Clinical Psychology, School Psychology, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and Organizational and Leadership Psychology and specialty programs in Military Mental Health, Latino Mental Health, Global Mental Health, and African and Caribbean Mental Health, William James has created a diverse college of psychology. The variety of training programs equip professionals to work as consultants and clinicians in schools, courts, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, substance abuse recovery programs, community mental health centers, business and private practice with children, adults and families. The faculty and the student body across all degree programs support each other by sharing research findings, clinical experience and insight from their specialty areas of mental health.

Our commitment to language and culturally sensitive mental health care brings students to Costa Rica, Ecuador and other Spanish-speaking countries to increase language fluency and an awareness of cultural differences that might impact treatment. The school's investment in recruiting military veterans, who can become mental health providers with the clinical skills and special insight into the emotional needs of troops and their families, is a further example of its investment in culturally sensitive care.

Fieldwork in more than 350 hospitals, clinics, schools, businesses and non-profit organizations provides a rare opportunity to educate our students while enhancing the mental health services and psychological sophistication of our partner organizations. Whether this effort is at the level of coaching senior executives, assessing student needs in schools, working in the courts, helping medical patients to cope more effectively with an illness or helping adults to understand themselves better, William James' integrative model of instruction provides a value-based education that trains professionals who are able to "Meet the Need and Make a Difference."

William James College strives to be a preeminent school of psychology that integrates rigorous academic instruction with extensive field education and close attention to professional development. We assume an ongoing social responsibility to create programs to educate specialists of many disciplines to meet the evolving mental health needs of society.

William James College is dedicated to assisting students in achieving their professional and career goals. Each year, William James College awards over $2 million to students in the form of direct grants, on-campus employment and teaching assistantships. William James College is a proud participant in the Veteran’s Administration Yellow Ribbon Program and provides matching grant assistance to eligible veterans. William James College is a participant in Title IV Federal Direct Student Loan Programs.

Career Services offers career guidance and employment counseling, workshops, events, and resources to students and alumni across disciplines. Career Services collaborates with Alumni Relations, Field Education, and Academic Departments to help guide students and alumni through the many stages of their career development process.

William James College is an institution and a community committed to the principles of excellence, fairness and respect for all people. As part of this commitment, we have a responsibility to provide and sustain multiple cultures, to encourage scholarship and knowledge, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair and equal access to higher education. While the concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect, it is also about moving beyond simple tolerance to embrace and celebrate diversity.

We offer a series of fully online lectures, offered anytime, anywhere! Hear from esteemed thought leaders in the field of psychology, while earning CE credits. We provide professionals with the knowledge they need to take their careers to the next level. Explore cutting edge topics with seasoned professionals. On May 7, 2015, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, founded in 1974, officially adopted our new name, William James College.

Since our founding, an education at MSPP/William James College has meant classroom instruction that creatively integrates psychological theory and research with critical self-knowledge and clinical illustrations offered by supervisors, colleagues and a practitioner faculty.