Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapist

University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine

Department of Psychiatry | Addiction Research & Treatment Services (ARTS) AOP

Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapists (MST)

We are hiring Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapists (MST) to join our growing Synergy department. This is an exciting opportunity to work at CU with an exceptional team, while providing specialized critical services to our clients at the Adolescent Department.

This is an incredible opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team of therapists (LPCC & LSW), supervisors (LCSW, LPC, LAC), and psychiatrists. The team works collaboratively and closely to provide comprehensive evaluations, psychiatric evaluations, ongoing substance use and mental health treatment and referrals as necessary. The team is committed to helping adolescents and their families create positive changes, prevent out of home placement, reduce involvement in the criminal justice system and most importantly, reduce morbidity and mortality.

The very small caseload provides a unique opportunity to provide the intensity needed to dive deep into individual and family issues to create lasting changes.

ARTS will provide comprehensive training in the multisystemic therapy (MST) intervention model for at-risk youth with substance issues. Our passion for recovery is second to none and we strive to offer the best treatment and long-term success. This is an autonomous position with opportunities to work remotely and allowing for some flexibility within your schedule.

Select Job Number 37133. To apply please complete our online application, submit a resume, cover letter with professional references.

Synergy, the adolescent component of Addiction Research and Treatment Services, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, seeks to fill an Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapist position in a community-based substance use treatment program. The therapist will be delivering an evidenced-based family therapy model called MST. Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an evidenced-based model with the largest body of evidence of successful interventions for high-risk youth and has been recognized as a highly effective treatment by NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) and NIH (National Institute of Health).

The model is present focused/action-oriented and focuses on strength-based, preventive strategies within the youth’s natural ecology targeting family, peers, school, and neighborhood support systems.

The therapist will receive comprehensive training in the MST model. The MST therapist will implement this community-based treatment by providing Multisystemic therapy (MST) to families of adolescent substance users with a goal to retain youth in their homes and avoid out of home placement and involvement in the criminal justice system. The MST therapist will utilize the MST principals to develop interventions with the input and support of their supervisor and MST consultant.

The implementation of this clinical model requires adherence and fidelity to the MST model, which the supervisor and MST consultant help guide. The MST therapist works independently but always has the support of their supervisor and has flexibility with their schedule as they schedule their own appointments based on the family’s availability. The therapist is very well supported through weekly group supervision and consultation, in addition to individual supervision occurring weekly to every two weeks.

• Provide intensive treatment services using Multisystemic Therapy principles to a caseload of up to 6 active MST clients, which include daily contact via individual and family counseling, case management, staffing, advocacy, etc. in their home environment and community.
• Provide home-based family therapy twice weekly utilizing the MST treatment model. Therapists may also participate in school meetings, staffing and court; these activities also require driving.
• Available to clients and their families Monday through Friday, 24 hours a day via cell phone AND will participate in a weekend on-call…