Multisystemic Therapist

Job Type

Full-time

The Multisystemic Therapist conducts assessments and treatment with youth and families involved in the Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program. Multisystemic Therapists engage the primary caregiver and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment, implementing problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, and outcome review and strategy revision procedures.

Multisystemic Therapists maintain clear documentation, participate in supervisory review and feedback, and demonstrate compliance with the 9 MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process. It is also important for the Multisystemic Therapy Supervisor to build and maintain working relationships with referral sources, other child‑serving agencies and contract holders to assure approval for services for youth and families served, as needed.

• Conduct MST assessment including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit of problem behaviors within the ecological context.
• Engage primary caregiver and other key participants in active change‑oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
• Implement a problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcome review, and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with the 9 MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.
• Collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system to ensure their buy‑in and cooperation throughout MST treatment.
• Provide direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with MST principles and practices.
• Participate in all MST training, supervision and consultation activities.
• Maintain confidentiality of consumer information.
• Work on other duties, tasks and projects as assigned.
• Ensure agency compliance with National Council on Accreditation and other mandatory regulations/standards.
• Live and work by the CHRIS 180 Values and Code of Ethics.
• Follow mandated reporting requirements of GA Code.
• Support and maintain an environment of emotional and physical safety for consumers, staff and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrate customer service.
• Promote a positive image of CHRIS 180 programs at all times.
• Work as a contributing and collaborative team member.
• Respond to consumer and peer needs in a timely fashion.
• Answer telephone calls and emails accordingly.
• Maintain personal information and training records.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings as scheduled.
• Attend and participate in required trainings as scheduled.
• Review, understand and be responsible to program policies.

• Master’s degree in psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related subject area. Persons with a related bachelor’s degree and significant clinical experience in treating serious antisocial behavior in youth may also qualify at the discretion of the agency.
• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic and functional) family therapies.
• Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques.
• Marital therapy using behaviorally based approaches.
• Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance.
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood).
• Family systems theory and application.
• Social ecological theory and application.
• Behavioral therapies theory and application.
• Cognitive‑…