MST Clinical Therapist $2500 retention bonus

Job description

This position is eligible for $2500 retention bonus. Job Summary: The Providence Center Child & Adolescent Services Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Clinical Therapist will provide community based treatment for youth and family with complex clinical, social and educational problems. Over a period of 4 – 6 months, services are delivered in homes, neighborhoods, schools and communities. Emphasis is on promoting behavioral change in the youth’s natural environment. Family interventions seek to promote the parent’s capacity to monitor and discipline the adolescent. Initial family sessions identify the strengths and weaknesses of the youth, his family, peers, school, and other factors. Problems throughout the family are explicitly identified for change, and the strengths of each system are used to facilitate such change. Duties and Responsibilities: Perform a comprehensive psychosocial assessment of assigned consumers. Provide individual, group, and family mental health and/or substance abuse therapy. Perform and record mental status examination. Collect pertinent data from appropriate collateral sources in accordance with confidentiality guidelines. Mediate and resolve family problems and r...