Family-Based Family Therapist
Tricia Marburger - 2003
HDFS Major, Human Resource Management Minor
Additional Education: N/A
Job Title: Family Therapist
Employer: Catholic Charities
Position Description: Tricia provides team-delivered (with a Master's level therapist) parenting, family, and individual therapeutic sessions within the home to families with a child who has a psych diagnosis and is at risk of being placed outside of the home. They have no more than 4 families on each caseload, and make 2-3 visits per week, which equals @ 3-5 hours a week with each family. They construct treatment plans, contact notes, and inter-agency meetings with other services involved.
Salary Range : approximately $28,000
Previously Held Positions: TSS, Pre-K Teacher, On-Site Rep. for Medical Assistance at Pinnacle Hospitals in Harrisburg, PA
Courses Found Most Helpful: Family Dynamics (we are required to do genograms for each family we work with!) and Parenting, Child and Adolescent Development
How HDFS Helped to Prepare Her: “Genograms, a basic understanding of the terms (i.e. enmeshed, authoritarian, etc.), theory...I use all of these daily."
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