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LICSW (Neurodiversity and ASD Specialist)

MIT
place Cambridge, 02142
local_atm $80000 - $90000 USD /YEAR
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Full Time
Experience:
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Racism, Diversity, and Tolerance
ECT
Groups
Individuals
Undergraduate/Graduate/Post Graduate

About Job

Posting Description

LICENSED INDEPENDENT CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER (LISCW), NEURODIVERSITY AND ASD SPECIALIST, MIT Health, to serve on the Mental Health and Counseling (MH&C) Services team; provide autism and neurodiversity informed individual counseling, group therapy, initial assessments, crisis intervention, outreach and referral services to graduate and undergraduate students; provide neurodiversity education through case conferences, clinical seminars, and consultations to the MIT community; provide direct clinical services to MIT’s general undergraduate and graduate student population, including urgent care and crisis intervention, psychological evaluations, time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatment, on call services, campus liaison engagement work, outreach, mental health education, and community referral services; provide consulting services to MIT’s embedded behavioral health program, which serves faculty and staff as well as provides supervision to postdoctoral psychology fellows and residents; consults with MIT’s student population and provides external sources of referral and support options; work closely with Disability and Access Services (DAS) to provide an integrated approach to supporting neurodivergent students.

A detailed position description is available at https://medical.mit.edu/jobs.

Job Requirements

REQUIRED: master’s degree in social work from an institution accredited by the Council on Social Work Education; at least two years of post master’s degree social work experience; licensure at the LICSW level in Massachusetts; Understanding of the full range of developmental and mental health challenges affecting late adolescents and young adults. Evidence of the provision of culturally informed mental health care, and attunement to the manifestations of psychological problems across different cultural backgrounds, identity configurations, and genders. Job #24664-8

Salary range: $80,000 - $90,000, final salary determined by MIT’s compensation team based on the skills and experience of the person hired.

Reopened 3/5/2025

Professional Field

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Patient Focus

Diagnoses

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Issues

Racism, Diversity, and Tolerance

Age Groups

Adolescents/Teenagers (14-19)
Adults

Therapeutic Approach

Methodologies

ECT

Modalities

Groups
Individuals

Practice Specifics

Populations

Undergraduate/Graduate/Post Graduate
Racial Justice Allied
School

Settings

Intense Out-patient (IOP)
Milieu
Private Practice
Research Facilities/Labs/Clinical Trials
Home Health/In-home
Court / Court Ordered