Internship Mental health Jobs in New York, NY

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YAI - Premier Health Care is a clinic placement providing direct therapeutic client contact. As an organization, YAI supports people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This internship will involve working at the YAI Manhattan Health Care Clinic, which offers primary care and specialty outpatient services to clients, including psychotherapy, psychiatry, rehabilitation, and primary care. Students will practice individual, family, and group psychotherapy with clients within the clinic setting and will have supervision at all times. Students will also be given the opportunity to complete in-takes for new clients and psychosocial assessments. Students will be provided with weekly group and individual supervision to provide support and improve their skills.

Students will provide psychotherapy, administer psychosocial assessments, and psychiatric evaluations, and develop and run groups. Students will also work collaboratively with the clients to develop individual treatment plans and will write end-of-treatment summaries for each of the clients after the group, describing whether the client has reached their goals. Details of individual therapy Psychotherapy sessions with clients will last until clients reach the goals agreed upon in therapy. Students will be able to self-evaluate their work after client sessions verbally with the field instructors, during weekly supervision with the field instructors, and while writing client progress notes.

This is an unpaid internship opportunity that is only open to current students. The internship may be able to satisfy course credit if approved by the student's institution of learning

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran. YAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.