Therapist - Community Outreach MST

Overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? Pathway of Baldwin County is looking for compassionate, dedicated people in 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.

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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required
• Must possess a valid driver's license and have reliable transportation to travel to client's homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.

Preferred Experience

• Professional licensure in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related field preferred but not required.
• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques
• Couples therapy using behaviorally-based approaches
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth's natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services

• Master's degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related subject area required
• Must be 21 years or Older
• Must pass drug screenings
• Clean Background
• Valid Drivers License and reliable transportation

To provide the degree and quality of service in the least restrictive environment for our neighbors' children that we would be compelled to provide for our own.

To provide the services where ever 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.

To craft a developmentally dynamic array of residential services with an inherent capability to evolve and maintain its appropriateness in meeting client needs.