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Job no: 493778
Work type: Temporary part time
Location: Stratford, New Jersey
Categories: Clinical

Summary

The Social Work Intern for RISN (Rowan Integrated Special Needs Center) assists with providing quality case management, educational workshops, and community resources for children and adults with special needs and their families. Following orientation, the intern will work along with their supervisors (LCSW and Clinical Psychologist) to provide the following functions.

Essential functions

The internship program is for Masters level students and includes, but is not limited to, instruction and supervision in the following areas: social policy, critical thinking, cultural and ethnic awareness, practice with individuals, practice with families and groups, practice with organizations, outcomes and follow-up, ethics, human behavior, and communication skills within an integrated behavioral health model.

Social policies and laws: the student will learn to identify social policy and law and how they affect children and adults with the disabilities we treat. This may include complex medical conditions, autism, intellectual disability, and medical and genetic diagnoses.

Practice with individuals, families, and groups includes individual and family therapy. Methods are examined in detail including psychosocial assessment, ongoing therapy, case management, creating a therapeutic relationship and follow-up contacts. Therapy is used with children, adults, and their families to help in understanding behavior management, coping with their diagnoses, medical compliance, and overall positive adjustment, independence, and self-advocacy. Additionally, there are opportunities to learn from a multidisciplinary team about different approaches to addressing difficult behaviors and working with social and family environments.

Social justice issues may involve how policies impact clients as well as advocacy. Psychosocial education is usually provided with in counseling sessions to help individuals as well as their families learn how to advocate for their loved ones or for themselves by understanding and educating themselves regarding their disability or diagnosis and connections to work with other agencies and organizations.

Ethical issues will be covered such as confidentiality and HIPAA laws through training and ongoing supervision.

Critical thinking and problem solving issues throughout the placement to help students develop their skills in order to best treat this client population and is based on current research and best practice models.

Requirements:

Must be enrolled and in good standing in a University Master’s of Social Work Program as a 2^nd year student; an articulation agreement between the student’s school and Rowan is necessary

Experience in the field of special needs preferred.

This is a year-long position (July 2019-June 2020).

Salary:

This is a temporary part-time position 25 hours per week

$30 per hour

Advertised: Jun 13 2019 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: Jun 27 2019 11:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time