Clinician; LCSW, LPC, LMFT; PHP Child and Adolescent

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Programs are offered for children, adolescents and adults struggling with mental illness as well as offering services specializing in Anxiety, Eating Disorders, and Geriatric Services.

The clinician is a core member of an interdisciplinary Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) serving adolescents ages 13–17, as well as 18-year-olds who remain enrolled in high school, who are experiencing early psychosis. The clinician conducts group therapy, maintains a primary caseload of eight patients, and provides brief individual check‑ins and family sessions. The clinician works closely with the program psychiatrist, caseworker, patients, families, schools, outpatient providers, and community supports to provide coordinated, developmentally appropriate, recovery-oriented care.

This position requires excellent communication, strong clinical judgment, and the ability to engage adolescents and families who may be uncertain about treatment, have limited insight, or experience difficulty participating consistently.

• Conducts comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments that include psychiatric symptoms, functioning, developmental and educational history, family and social supports, substance use, trauma history, health‐related social needs, barriers to care, and patient strengths.
• Maintains a primary caseload of eight patients and serves as the primary clinician for assigned patients throughout their participation in the program.
• Develops, monitors, and regularly updates individualized treatment plans based on each patient’s clinical needs, developmental stage, personal goals, family system, cultural context, educational needs, level of functioning, and response to treatment.
• Plans and conducts group therapy for adolescents with varying levels of engagement, insight, verbal participation, cognitive organization, and symptom severity.
• Provides brief individual check‑ins and targeted clinical interventions using developmentally appropriate, evidence‑informed approaches.
• Conducts family sessions focused on education, communication, treatment engagement, safety, recovery, and supporting the adolescent’s functioning at home, in school, and in the community.
• Provides education to patients and families regarding psychosis, recovery, treatment, substance use, sleep, stress vulnerability, early warning signs, relapse prevention, and available supports.
• Uses flexible and creative engagement strategies with adolescents who may be guarded, withdrawn, reluctant to participate, or uncertain about the need for treatment.
• Assesses suicide risk, violence risk, vulnerability, self‐care capacity, substance‐related risk, and psychiatric deterioration; develops and updates safety plans; provides crisis intervention; and collaborates with the psychiatrist to determine when emergency evaluation or a different level of care may be needed.
• Collaborates closely and maintains consistent, timely, and proactive communication with the program psychiatrist, caseworker, and other team members regarding assessment, treatment planning, clinical progress, treatment…