Description

The Expressive Therapy training has been offered at Roslindale campus site for more than 30 years. Expressive therapists provide psychosocial support to HSL patients and residents who experience difficulties adjusting to aging, transitioning to a communal living, health status change, memory impairment, depression, anxiety, etc. They use non-verbal modalities of music, movement, and art as vehicles for achieving clinical goals. We offer both group and individual treatment. Members of the ET staff are highly skilled in their primary modality and are seasoned counselors. We have an impressive record of our former trainees who are successfully employed in the expressive therapy and mental health counseling fields. We provide students with weekly supervision by certified expressive therapist and approved LMHC supervisor as appropriate. The Roslindale campus is accessible by MBTA and provides free parking.

ALL MODALITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY!!

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center:

·Chronic Care Hospital treating patients with a wide spectrum of physical and mental health issues
·Medical Acute Care Unit (MACU) for patients requiring extended medical and rehabilitative care for complex medical conditions or multiple acute or chronic illnesses
·Memory Care / Special Care Behavioral Unit
·A 46-bed Recuperative Services Unit (RSU) offering short-term, skilled rehabilitation
·Patients are formally referred to Expressive Therapies by their medical providers

Training Objectives:
·Graduate expressive therapy interns will attend various educational trainings, such as dementia training, general orientation, rehabilitation services orientation, lectures by Harvard affiliated researchers from Marcus Institute.
·Interns will be offered an opportunity to co-lead and lead 4-9 groups per week, depending on their year in training
·Opportunity to see individual patients and prepare case study presentation
·Interns will have time to prepare their groups and get a feedback from their mentor and a supervisor
·Interns will be trained on entering electronic clinical documentation via Meditech: daily notes, assessments, progress reports
·By the end of the training, interns will demonstrate a proficiency in offering both modality based and a verbal counseling to geriatric patients with identified psychosocial problems