MST Therapist - At Risk Youth - MiHealth - South

Description

Do you have a passion for working with children and families?  MiSide is looking for compassionate, dedicated people in the Detroit Metropolitan Area who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends in our Multisystemic Therapist position.

In the Multisystemic Therapist role, you will receive ongoing team support, training and supervision in the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model as you work holistically with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST.  In addition, you will empower families to address problematic behaviors and to help their youth ages 12 - 17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as changing unhelpful family interactions, addressing the youth’s problems with peers and in school, and increasing social support, to name a few. 

POSITION SUMMARY:

As part of Children, Youth and Families Center of Excellence, the Multisystemic Therapist will provide Homebased services to youth and their families where the youth is involved in delinquent activities including problem carnal and anti-social behavior. This position is responsible for MST assessment including: review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participates, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit of problem behaviors within the ecological context.