POSTMASTER’S INTERNSHIP

School-Based Child Therapy Program

The School-Based Child Therapy Program has been an ongoing program at the Counseling Center for over 35 years and provides school-based counseling services to local schools. The program specializes in child therapy from different theoretical perspectives such as behavioral, cognitive behavioral, postmodern, and humanistic/existential, within a systemic perspective of the child’s school and family. This program focuses on a collaboration of ideas, lessons and activities which help interns work with children and adolescents, both individually and in groups, through issues that include divorce, grief and loss, anger management, bullying and self-esteem.

One component of this program is the Social Skills/Violence Prevention Program, through which therapists provide social skills training to groups of children as well as individual counseling to children and their families. Throughout the year, therapists will be trained in assessment, DSM diagnosis, treatment planning, session note writing, and legal and ethical issues.

Meeting Times:
Interns meet in the summer for training on Tuesdays, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. In the fall and spring, interns meet on Mondays from 2:00 PM-5:00 PM or 4:00 PM-7:00 PM for training and group supervision, as well as one six-hour day during the week at their assigned school.

This program provides children and family hours for MFT as well as MFT/PPS and MFT/Art Therapy interns.

Openings Available: 8-10

Program Director:
Fereshteh Mazdyasni, MA, LMFT
Phone: 818-386-5676
Email: fmazdyasni@pgu.edu