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SOCIAL WORK INTERNSHIP
Each year the Child Guidance Center invites the area schools of social work to place qualified second year students at our agency. These schools have included Columbia, NYU, Fordham, Southern CT, Smith, Wurtzweiler, etc. Typical internships are 21 hours per week (24 counting lunch), and run from early September through early May. Required times are from 9am-1pm on Thursdays, and one evening (either Tuesday or Wednesday).
The Child Guidance Center sees people with a range of pathology from neurotic level cases with intact families to severely dysfunctional families. Social work students typically carry a load of about eight cases, and see young children as well as teenagers, parents, families, and sometimes groups (co-lead with an experienced staff person). Students conduct intake interviews, make referrals for additional services within and outside of the agency, and are responsible for the insurance paperwork and the charting work for the individual cases that they see.
Students at this agency are provided with a rich training program. They are given two supervision sessions per week by senior social work clinicians.They are expected to go to case conferences, seminars, special presentations, treatment teams, and staff meetings. In addition, we offer a student seminar that runs the whole year and takes up a variety of clinical and procedural topics, as well as matters related to the development of professional identity.
Students also have the opportunity to observe, or in some cases, to participate in certain specialized programs such as developmental evaluations of young children and forensic interviews of allegedly sexually abused children. Lastly, towards the end of the year each student gives a clinical presentation to the staff.
Students at our agency work closely with experienced therapists and find their niche within our supportive and talented multidisciplinary staff.
How to Apply: Please email your application to generalmailbox@childguidancect.org.
PRE-DOCTORAL INTERNSHIPS IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY
The Child Guidance Center has four Pre-Doctoral Internship positions that are available for the academic year beginning in September 2010.
The goal of these programs is to provide a varied, high quality training experience that will support interns in the development of their base of knowledge, their clinical skills, and their professional identity as clinical psychologists. Furthermore, the program is intended to provide interns with a training experience that will enable them to function as independent professionals by the end of their training experience.
Interns will receive training in individual, family, and group psychotherapy. As we are a community-based agency providing service to all segments of society, our trainees will gain experience working with a patient population that is diversified with regard to ethnicity, socio-economic status, diagnosis, and level of behavioral and cognitive functioning. Training therefore includes emphasis on the broad-based skills involved in listening and communicating with children, adolescent and adult patients Training also includes a focus on diagnostic and treatment issues that may be specific to diagnostic groups. All aspects of training include emphasis on the development of cultural competence.
The program includes comprehensive training in clinical and developmental assessment with a strong emphasis placed on the synthesis of dynamic, systemic, cognitive, biological, environmental and cultural influences. Interns will gain experience in cognitive, educational, projective, and neuro-psychological testing. The focus will be on integration of all aspects of the testing process into a comprehensive and meaningful report. Interns will also participate on treatment planning teams, in staff seminars, and case conferences. All trainees will be required to present at case conferences before the end of the internship year. There will also be the opportunity for interns to receive training in, or gain exposure to various specialty areas such as sex abuse investigations, crisis intervention, risk assessment, and postventions to community traumas. These topics will serve as points of focus for seminars designed specifically for psychology trainees. Additionally seminars in CBT, TF CBT, family therapy, group therapy, neuro-psychological and psychological testing will be available to interns. Consistent with our interest in community education, interns may have the opportunity to conduct community workshops, consultations with other agencies and schools, participate in interagency collaborations, and play an advocacy role on community resource teams. Every attempt will be made to provide trainees with as well-rounded an experience as possible. Supervisory sessions will make use of process recordings and readings in order to add depth to the experience. Supervisors will also make efforts to design an experience that meets the specific interests of each intern whenever possible.
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The Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut is pleased to announce the addition of an Early Childhood Intervention Track to its existing Child and Adolescent Psychology internship program.
Beginning in September 2009, there will be one position open in this new track, with four remaining slots in the Child and Adolescent program. While the intern in the Early Childhood track will have a caseload that is diversified across age groups, the primary area of focus will be children ranging from ages birth to 6, and their parents. From a treatment perspective, emphasis will be placed on building play therapy skills in working with younger children. Other responsibilities will include participation in our Developmental Evaluation Program; an interdisciplinary program that provides diagnostic assessments to children ages 2-6 who show signs of developmental delay and/or autistic spectrum disorder. In addition to performing diagnostic assessments, interns will provide feedback to parents, and collaborate with team members in report preparation. Interns will also co-lead support groups for parents, and provide school observation and consultation. Additionally, interns will assume responsibility for classroom observation of Head Start and pre-school children, as well as provide consultation to Head Start staff and parents.
Beginning in September 2010, the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut will begin a formalized internship track in Crisis Intervention and Trauma. There will be one position open in this new track. Training will focus on the development of skills in engagement, risk assessment, diagnostic assessment, and techniques for rapid stabilization, short term treatment, as well as trauma assessment and treatment. Collaborative work with other Crisis Team members, with psychiatry, and institutions offering higher/more intensive levels of care will also be emphasized. Trainees in this track will interface with local police, and our Sexual Abuse Response Team. They will also participate in any community postvention that takes place during the year. Added training in psychological trauma and Trauma Focused CBT will be part of the year’s experience.
How to Apply : Please email your application to generalmailbox@childguidancect.org.
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Only 30 miles from New York City, the Child Guidance Center is a growing outpatient mental health center for children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, developmental, social or family problems. The Center is dedicated to reducing emotional suffering and dysfunctional behavior and to helping each individual achieve optimal potential. With a multidisciplinary professional team, the Center provides diagnostic assessments and treatment services for youngsters and their families in Stamford, Greenwich, Darien, and New Canaan, Connecticut. Work with parents and collaboration with other community agencies is emphasized in all our programs.
Treatment programs are targeted to all youngsters with mental health problems with priority access provided for those with the highest risk symptoms and those experiencing trauma or crisis. The Center provides services to clients from a broad range of economic backgrounds with a commitment to serving lower income and uninsured families and to providing services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for our multi-ethnic community.
The Center provides a supportive professional environment with extensive in service training and supervisory experiences, continuing education, generous benefits and flexible hours. The following positions are available in our main Stamford facility. All positions require cultural competency/sensitivity to work with diverse population. Bicultural candidates with Spanish or Haitian Creole fluency encouraged to apply. EOE.
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PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Responsibilities: To provide assessments, long and short term psychotherapy (individual, family, and group) for children, teens, and families. Potentially work in both Stamford and Greenwich office in the Child and Family Program.
Requirements: MSW or equivalent required. Minimum 2 years psychotherapy experience, crisis assessment experience, license eligible in CT.
Please send resumes to: LMR, CGC, 103 West Broad Street, Stamford, CT 06902: Fax: LMR- 203-348-9378; Email: generalmailbox@childguidancect.org subject LMR CAFT Position
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INTAKE WORKER (part-time)
Responsibilities: To conduct initial evaluations of child and adolescent cases. To triage cases presenting by phone or in-person.
Requirements: MSW or equivalent required. Minimum 2 years psychotherapy experience, bilingual Spanish/English, license eligible in CT preferred.
Please send resumes to: LMR, CGC, 103 West Broad Street, Stamford, CT 06902: Fax: LMR- 203-348-9378; Email: generalmailbox@childguidancect.org subject LMR/intake
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SUPERVISOR/CLINICIAN, CRISIS PROGRAM
Responsibilities: To provide crisis assessment and 6-week stabilization for children and teens, including work with families. Initial assessments mobile; on-going intervention in community or office. Participate in after-hours on-call rotation (additional compensation provided). Also provide therapy for small caseload of long- and short-term children/teens and their families in Child and Family Therapy program. Caseloads consist of a range of ages, diagnoses, and family constellations. Provide clinical and administrative supervision to staff in crisis program, may include supervision to staff in other programs and/or students, as needed.
Requirements: MSW and license eligible in CT required. 5 years clinical experience required; crisis assessment and intervention experience preferred. Experience providing clinical supervision required. Completed coursework to supervise social work interns preferred. Expertise in group and/or family therapy preferred.
Please send resumes to: DM, CGC, 196 Grey Rock Place, Stamford, CT 06901: Fax: DM- 203-353-1524; Email: generalmailbox@childguidancect.org subject DM/CRISIS.
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