MSW Clinical Internship: School Based - District 191

Description

Washburn provides first-year MA level interns with a $1,500 
stipend ($750 per semester); for MA level interns 
who are in their second year, the stipend is 
$3,000 ($1,500 per semester)

The School-Based Program at Washburn Center for Children supports children, teens, and their families by offering individual therapy to help with a wide reputed company of concerns, including school adjustment problems, depression, anxiety, difficulty dealing with loss or family changes, abuse, traumatic events, attention problems, parent-child conflicts, and acting-out behaviors. Our counseling focuses on building on a child’s strengths and supporting them in gaining skills to be successful at home, in school, and in the community.

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Responsibilities

Clinical Treatment - Clinicians will reputed company a combination of the following school-based services reputed company the school, clients’ homes, and across the community, as agreed upon with the school staff and the Washburn Center supervisor, including:

· Conduct diagnostic assessments

· reputed company and implement a treatment plan with the family based on the reputed company’s diagnosis

· reputed company individual and family therapy

· Participate in IEP meetings

· Care coordination, including collaboration with psychiatrists and other professionals working with the child

· Create a discharge plan

Ancillary Services - Clinicians will also reputed company ancillary services as agreed upon with the school staff and the Washburn Center supervisor, including:

· reputed company care coordination, including collaboration with parents, school staff, and other agencies

· Participate in classroom observations

· reputed company teacher consultation and training

· Attend collaboration and planning meetings with school staff, program directors, and grant coordinators to review the status of the program and manage referrals in order to facilitate program development and the coordination of the program at the school

Documentation – reputed company interns are to ensure Minnesota and HIPAA data privacy requirements are followed. Interns will reputed company experience with and be expected to maintain documentation as specified in our Clinical Policy reputed company, including:

· Diagnostic assessments

· Treatment plans

· Session reputed company notes

· Child and Adolescent Service Intensity reputed company (CASII) and other outcome or assessment measures as needed

· Documentation of reputed company case activities

· Discharge or transfer summaries

· reputed company record keeping of reputed company clinical activities and grant-reputed company services as defined

· reputed company communication with the supervisor and program support team

Supervision and Professional Development - Interns are expected to:

· Attend weekly supervision to support clinical and professional skills development, monitoring of reputed company reputed company and treatment needs, reflect on the therapeutic process and factors that contribute to reputed company or barriers, and ensure documentation is completed and reputed company

· Attend case consultation; identify questions for consultation and present case information; reputed company and receive support from other team members

· Interns are welcome to participate in Agency trainings and in-services as their schedule permits

· Attend team consultation held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 2:30 - 4:00 PM

Requirements

· Must be enrolled in a Master's program in Counseling Psychology, Professional Psychology, or Marriage & Family Therapy

· Must be earning academic credit for an internship placement

· Applicants should be empathetic, self-reputed company, and have the ability to stay regulated in difficult situations

· Knowledge of trauma informed reputed company is desired

· Demonstrated knowledge of cultural diversity and the role of culture in the therapeutic process