Common Learning Activities:

• Co-facilitate parenting/family support groups with parents and caregivers

• Co-facilitate child/teen psychoeducation groups

• Provide Individual and family therapy (clinical/advanced master’s interns only)

• Support individual parents through coaching, case management, and crisis de-escalation

• Sharpen your skills at consultations focused on family systems, parenting, and early childhood mental health

• Collaborate at weekly team meetings, including multi-disciplinary case consults (“grand rounds”), including marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, psychiatric providers, and more.

• Gain support at weekly individual and group supervision

• Learn from a vast array of client ages, clinical conditions, family structures, and relationship types.

TRAININGS

Our rigorous onboarding process includes a variety of core trainings such as:

• Motivational Interviewing

• Behavior management and crisis de-escalation

• Trauma-informed care

• Record keeping and clinical writing

• Workplace expectations

• Ethical decision-making

• Case management skills

Additionally, students in this Learning Pathway get specific training and supervision in:

• Introductory training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills

• Introductory training in Attachment Theory and Parent-Child relationship interventions

• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (clinical/advanced master’s interns only)

• Applying Trauma Informed Practices in therapy (clinical/advanced master’s interns only)

• Promoting First Relationships training (clinical/advanced master’s interns only)

• Family Systems-focused consult groups

REQUIRED ELEMENTS

To fully participate in this Learning Pathway, interns should meet the following requirements:

• Available for weekly team meetings every Wednesday 11am-12pm (virtual or in-person)

• Available to participate in parenting and child psychoeducation groups on Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30-7pm.  Strong preference for interns who can be present in-person for both nights.  Will consider interns who can attend at least one.

• Can maintain practicum placement for no less than 9 months (3 quarters) for 2nd Year/Advanced Master’s students.  Bachelor’s and 1st Year Master’s students will be considered for shorter placements.

• Able to complete assigned tasks outside of their specific Learning Pathway based on agency needs, school/program requirements, and individual learning goals.

• Acceptance of and ability to work with individuals and families with a variety of identities, behaviors, and cultural and spiritual practices with the ability to apply a social justice and equity lens to all aspects of this work.

Please note, Ryther does not provide marriage or couples counseling for adults.  All our family and relationship-based work is in the contexts of the child or youth client’s caregivers, family members, partners, and/or social relationships.