Aspiring Therapists Learn on the Ground at Casa Pacifica [VCStar.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/11/174:00 AM

Aided by a presidential initiative, the Casa Pacifica agency has doubled admissions to a program that prepares psychologists to work with abused, neglected and emotionally troubled youth.

Brian Bantel, 33, is a member of this year's class.

The intern from Arizona plans to specialize in the treatment of children who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect, a specialty of the Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families.

"I do best with a trauma population or a lot of conduct-related aggressive behaviors," Bantel said after a session last week with a 6-year-old boy at the agency's main campus in the Camarillo area.

[For more of this story, written by Kathleen Wilson, go to http://www.vcstar.com/story/ne...a-pacifica/96128922/]

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