Functional Family Therapist (Merraine) (5839)

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The Functional Family Therapist/Clinician provides intensive home based family therapy services including strength-based assessments, treatment planning and coordination, family treatment, and discharge planning and intervention work with client support systems.

Functional Family Therapist/Clinician Job Responsibilities

• Provide home based family therapy services to at-risk youth and their families.
• Complete rapid assessments during intake process to assess relational and hierarchical functioning within the home.
• Rapidly engage youth and family members into therapy to begin working toward behavior change techniques which will target risk factors.
• Implement treatment planning which focuses on behavior change techniques to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors.
• Create Relapse Prevention Plan to assist family with future difficulties
• Assist families with managing crisis situations without the need for outside intervention including on-call hours.
• Coordinate with other collaterals involved with cases to ensure all providers are aware of treatment plan for family.
• This position offers the opportunity to be trained in Functional Family Therapy. (FFTLLC)