Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.

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The Psychodrama Therapist facilitates programming that provides healing through theatre and drama-based techniques that explore the behavior, attitudes and emotions of individuals experiencing physical, psychological, emotional, or mental health issues.

Essential Duties:

• Planning and providing appropriate treatment based on clients’ needs.
• Interact with milieu and encourage participation in sessions.
• Facilitate individual and group sessions as assigned.
• Demonstrate practice and techniques and safely guide clients.
• Address and support inner conflicts through drama processes such as role-play, storytelling, improvisation, and script work.
• Provide clients with techniques to help express their emotions and integrate the mental and physical sides of life.
• Facilitate the use of props, equipment, and materials.
• Communicate with clinicians and direct care staff as needed.
• Provide weekly progress updates to treatment team as needed.
• Complete documentation timely and according to established standards.
• Provide residential milieu support to direct care and clinical staff in
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Master’s degree in clinical discipline or psychodrama/drama therapy preferred.
• Licensed in counseling, psychology, or social work in the state in which you are applying
• Board registered Psychodrama/Drama Therapist required (R-DT).
• Board Certified in Psychodrama/Drama therapy preferred (BC-DT).
• Experience working with young adults/adolescents in a behavioral health setting

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability.  Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

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