MST Therapist (2 full-time positions)

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.

Qualifications:

• MA in mental health field.
• Strong mental health and juvenile justice skills with youth and families. Ability to implement and provide therapy in a 24/7 clinical outreach program to youth and families in Thurston & Mason Counties.
• Experience in assessment, individual and family tratment with youth and families involved in the juvenile justice system, experience providing clinical services and community systems work required.
• Experience in an evidence based practice based in Multisystemic Therapy, Motivational Enhancment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a plus

Salary: $16.85 - $20.04
Close: Open Until Filled