MST Therapist

MST Therapist

COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION

Shoulders of Strength’s wants dedicated staff to provide exemplary services to participants and their families. Are you DRIVEN? Do you enjoy HELPING others? Help create opportunities that allow others to live the best life possible

VISION: Shoulders of Strength, Inc. strives to continuously provide families with the appropriate supports to empower them to live and work independently in their chosen community.

Job Title: MST Therapist

Overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? SHOULDERS OF STRENGTH is looking for compassionate, dedicated people in BATON ROUGE AND SURROUNDING AREAS 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 serious criminal offenses and in some cases, substance abuse. You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help 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.

Comfort 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.

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, or bachelor’s degree with minimum of three years of experience working with family and/or youth services.

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

PREFERRED Licensed Mental Health Professional (LPC, LCSW, LMFT)

Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies

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 (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)

Collaboration and partnership with community agencies

Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services