Mental Health Professionals

Provide intensive family based services as a team member with a behavioral health worker in an effort to prevent out of home placement and improve family relations. Services are delivered primarily in the familys home and include: individual family and group therapy; assessments; service coordination; and crisis prevention/intervention.

• Provide initial and on-going comprehensive assessments of identified families and youth
• Provide individual family and group therapy with identified families using eco-systemic structural family therapy model.
• Work collaboratively with assigned mental health worker team member to provide comprehensive services and linkages.
• Provide 24/7 crisis coverage on a rotating basis.
• Deliver services in a manner convenient to families this includes evening and weekend service provision.
• Consult with psychiatrist on a regular basis and attend psychiatric appointments with the youth and family.
• Collaborate on a regular basis with all systems involved with the youth and family
• Provide ongoing role modeling and skill building to families.
• Provide case management services as needed.
• Attend and participate in required eco-systemic family therapy trainings in addition to required state and local trainings.
• Demonstrate commitment to learning and practicing the eco-systemic structural family therapy model by bringing videotaped sessions to supervision utilization of genograms eco-maps and structural maps.
• Complete all documentation in a timely comprehensive and legible manner and in accordance with Friendship House policies and procedures.
• Contribute to any quality improvement/outcome measurement tracking and data gathering as assigned.
• Perform duties in a professional manner in response to clients co-workers and situations in which own values are challenged.
• Other duties as assigned.

Masters degree in social work counseling marriage and family or psychology from an accredited college or university.

2 years experience working with children & families.