Adult forensic inpatient mental health At — Napa State Hospital

By the end of this opportunity, students will gain a broad base of experience. • Specific Skills: All students must be in the second year of internship with non-web based first year placement. A willingness to work in an inpatient forensic mental health setting. Some experience working with adults with mental illness. Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team setting. Most importantly, a willingness to learn is essentialWe have opportunities for students with a mental health focus and students with a health and aging focus. This is a student centric placement, where of our 70+ social workers, more than 40 are former students, who now serve as mentors and task supervisors to current students. Students learn how to thrive as a social worker on an interdisciplinary team working directly with psychiatry, psychology, rehab therapy, nursing, and medical doctors. Students learn how to initiate clinical assessments, provide individual therapy, group therapy, and how to initiate institutional change on a micro, macro, and mezzo level. Ultimately, the goal of the program is to support 2nd year MSW students where they develop their own unique and effective social work voice. Students are the future of the social work profession and will be involved in treatment and advocacy for marginalized individuals with mental health challenges. Students will receive 4 weeks of DBT training and be exposed to several evidence-based treatment modalities. This internship serves as a springboard into graduating with a competitive edge for hireability in any setting. This placement treats those individuals that community placements have been unable to treat effectively. This placement teaches effective advocacy in a complex mental health system while gaining interpersonal effectiveness skills. The internship program supports MSWII students to further develop the embodiment of an ethical clinician, through actively engaging in micro, macro, and mezzo practice in an effort to advance human rights through social justice advocacy, networking, and policy development. In addition to working directly with Social Workers who serve as Task Supervisors, interns are provided weekly clinical supervision, as well as a weekly 3-hour clinical supervision group with other social work MSWII students. Students have the opportunity to gain peer support from a weekly clinical consultation group, which is a best practice model for individual psychotherapy. Based on availability and interest, students are offered work in specialty areas that include DBT focused treatment units, Intensive Substance Recovery Program, Trauma Informed Care Units, Polydipsia Units, Geropsychiatric Units, Skilled Nursing Facility, Sexual Offender Unit, Conserved individuals in the lanterman petris short (LPS) Program, Competency to Stand Trial Program, Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI), and medical focused treatment units. Students are rotated to various specialty units throughout the year to grow their skills and exposure. Students have the opportunity to work on an annual Institutional Change Project, where they gain the exposure and skills necessary to make lasting systemic change that embody social work principles, values, and ethics. The primary goal of the internship program is to create a platform that encourages the development of critical thinking necessary for the growth of an experienced and highly effective social work practitioner. A secondary goal of the internship program is to create a pathway to employment and licensure for students who have the opportunity to work at this placement and are interested in continuing on post-graduation. • Populations Served: Individuals with mental health challenges from the following groups: Transitional Aged Youth (18-25 years old), Adults (25-65 years old), Older Adults/Seniors (65 years or older, living independently or assisted), Macro-level groups (organizations, communities, systems, etc.). DSH-Napa is categorized as a Forensic Inpatient Mental Health Treatment Hospital because many of the individuals we serve have had their lives intersect with the legal justice system and have current Mental Health challenges. .