Community Based Therapist - MST

Description

Do you want to make a difference in a child's life? Do you want to know that your job has meaning and that you will be making a lasting impact? Do you have a passion for working with children and families? If so, then look no further!!

Pathway of Baldwin County is looking for compassionate, dedicated people in Mobile and Baldwin County who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends!

Therapist will receive training in the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model as you begin working 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 serious criminal offenses and, in some cases, substance abuse. You will empower families to address challenging and / or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12 - 18 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.

Summary of Job 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.
• Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, and community agency staff, i.e. school, probation, child welfare, in change-oriented treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members.
• Receive regular training, professional development, supervision, and consultation activities designed to help you acquire extensive clinical skills within the MST treatment model.
• Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24 hours / day, 7 days / week support as needed.

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Preferred Experience

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Mission

To provide the degree and quality of service in the least restrictive environment for our neighbor's children that we would be compelled to provide for our own and to provide these services wherever possible in a manner that reflects the best of traditional and contemporary values embraced by families. Additionally, the program must strive to make itself accessible to families and agencies with varying abilities, mechanisms, and resources for funding services.