Licensed Community Based Clinical Therapist, Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
Evidence Based Associates
- Edinburg, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- Master’s degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required
- Licensure is required.
- Bi-lingual in English and Spanish preferred.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to client’s homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.
- Must live within a 30 – 45-minute travel time from the designated service area.
- 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.