Avantages
- There are AMAZING clinical staff members that are supportive and understand how stressful and overwhelming Realization Center is, which makes the experience worth it, besides the clients. - Due to the fact that you will have a caseload that is larger than 40 clients while facilitating at least 4 groups per week, you will encounter many different clinical situations which will increase your work experience and certainly be challenging.
Inconvénients
- "Group supervision" led by the CASAC certified CEO with the aggressive undertones that if you do not follow their instructions, your job could be on the line. - Micromanagement of every minimal task leading to situations where simple letters for clients can take nearly one week to be completed. - Questionable heavy handed use of a "food program/lecture series" that all incoming clients were required to attend regardless to their history of disordered eating. - The assumption that the larger your caseload is (I had 70+ at one point), the more clients you must see while also maintaining every single piece of document while the maximum caseload is 35 clients as required by OASAS. This is NEGLIGENCE of peoples' lives. - Never knowing when you might be yelled at by administrators for the slightest thing in person, or be instructed to "call Brooklyn" to be yelled at by CASAC-holding-pseudo-clinical-directors who trade seats every few years. - Clinical directors who are essentially figureheads for the insanity that the CFO/CEO combination attempt to implement. I genuinely think that the clinical directors care about counselors/clients but they are hardly able to do anything to protect someone without their job being placed on the line as well.