BMS Internship Program
Behavior Management Systems offers an exceptional Internship Program to provide a community behavioral and mental health internship setting for students who are completing their Master’s level education in Counseling, Social Work, and/or other human service related fields. The worksite setting experience is a fundamental component in the development of a solid basis of knowledge for the intern to move into the professional mental health arena.
With a BMS mental health internship, the student will benefit from the experience of a professional relationship with a therapist working with BMS in the student's specialization through direct, face-to-face supervision for a minimum of one hour per week. Students also gain understanding and appropriate experience related to billing practices utilized by a community mental health center.
Come Intern With Us
BMS internships for counselors provide a thorough, practical experience that can only be obtained in an agency-based work setting. Our program will provide mental health internship cohorts with the skills necessary to prepare them for the community behavioral health counseling field.
Interns will learn to:
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Apply the understanding of general principles and methods of case conceptualization, assessment of mental and emotional status, and diagnostic techniques by integration of technological strategies and applications within counseling processes.
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Apply advanced skills, including assessment and theoretical and philosophical bases of counseling, within the professional work setting.
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Demonstrate knowledge of prevention techniques and resources applicable to clients served while utilizing the ability to identify and clarify a tentative personal theoretical counseling approach.
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Acquire and demonstrate adequate knowledge of available referral sources utilized by BMS counseling professionals within the regional catchment area.
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Gain understanding and appropriate experience in consultation with parents, teachers, families, other community providers, and BMS representatives.
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Document, in order, and clearly communicate to BMS supervisors the essential factors in each case in a manner that meets the industry documentation standards.
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Demonstrate knowledge of how administrative policies, procedures, and clinical practices affect the potential legal aspects and risks to the clinician and to BMS.
Located in the Black Hills
BMS has been providing behavioral health care in Western South Dakota since 1948 and is the largest, most advanced community mental healthcare facility in the region. The company's core vision, then and now, is to build positive change among ourselves and the communities where we live, work, and play. BMS provides exceptional internships for counselors, social workers, and professionals hoping to enter the human service field.