Organization Description Shasta Community Health Center, working with private and public health partners, and by leveraging and efficiently using its limited resources, will help to create a seamless system of access to compassionate, high quality cost-effective primary and preventive health care for all residents of the communities it serves. Shasta Community Health Center strives to improve the health status within the communities it serves, particularly for those residents who are economically or otherwise disadvantaged.
Program Information Shasta Community Health Center will provide a high quality, consistent, structured education and training experience to prepare future therapists for an ever-changing role in an integrated mental health care system. Students will have the opportunity to utilize multiple treatment approaches and modalities to best serve the needs of patients with a mental health and/or substance use diagnosis. Students will develop professional competence in assessment, intervention, counseling, consultation and crisis management. Program will promote creativity and the importance of new thoughts and behaviors by those involved. Students will learn critical thinking skills for clinical situations and apply appropriate and contemporary assessment and treatment methods. Training will address each patient as unique with special attention given to cultural differences as well as respecting the ethics and laws governing the practice.
Interpersonal and good communication skills are key for quickly developing relationships and building client rapport. Helpful characteristics include: honesty, discipline, creativity, humility, compassion, and curiosity. Additional skills include: empathy, active listening, organization, record keeping, information technology savvy, health professional boundaries, and strong ethics. Students must be able to work in a team and demonstrate flexibility to handle both structured and unstructured settings, able to respond to fast-paced, unpredictible and sometimes chaotic environments, and offer brief, solution-focused interventions.