Mental Health Professional

Community-Based Therapist This role requires candidates to provide therapy to youth and families inside the family home, where they are most comfortable. This will require a mix of both in-office and community work.

Candidates must reside locally.

Overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and their families? We are looking for compassionate, dedicated professionals who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends.

• You will receive ongoing training in the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model as you work with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST as designed.
• Extensive research has proven the effectiveness of MST.
• MST therapists do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of juveniles with criminal offenses, including, in some cases, substance abuse.
• You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12–17 make life-transforming changes.
• Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few.
• For more information on multisystemic therapy, please watch this video: How Does MST Work? [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzMKp8604ZCmaaS5AuCiwyA]

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST treatment model and principles. Some principles include leveraging strengths and focusing on the positive, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family’s ecological context.
• Very comfortable working with a diverse community of clients.
• Knowledge of the types of families in the community
• Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, and community agency staff (school, probation, child welfare) in change-oriented treatment.