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0-5 years of experience
Served as a Mental Health Specialist II, providing care primarily for individuals with thought disorders. Position includes maintaining a safe therapeutic environment for patients, closely evaluating patients for psychiatric crises, facilitating the development and utilization of coping skills, and leading psychoeducational groups.
- Co-Lead on Unit board for one year
- Helped develop a prototype acuity scale to be implemented on the different units
- Developed a broad knowledge of research based psychoeducational groups.
- Demonstrated the ability to competently manage psychiatric emergencies in a calm, competent manner.
- Completed training in team building, management of assaultive behaviors and de-escalation techniques.
- Developed a strong knowledge base of psychiatric disorders and best practice treatments.
0-5 years of experience
- Assessed patients' mental status through interviews or observations
- Developed treatment plans and made referrals to appropriate agency based on patient need
- Monitored patients' treatment progress and kept track of their mental status
- Maintained case notes on all patients
0-5 years of experience
- Provided school and home based counseling services to youth ages 4 to 18 who suffered from emotional, mental, and behavioral issues
- Helped clients to improve problem solving skills through Person Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Play Therapy.
- Assisted LPC in developing treatment plans.
- Provided crisis intervention services.
- Educated parents and family members on client intervention techniques.
- Inputted client interactions and progress into database.
- Followed HIPPA guidelines.
0-5 years of experience
- Supported youth struggling with emotional and behavioral disorders
- Consistently followed safety protocols
- Utilized Therapeutic Crisis Intervention techniques to de-escalate youth
- Collaborated with a clinical team by providing written and verbal updates on clients
- Followed an Evidence-Based Practice model (CARE)
- Planned, prepared and lead activities for children of all ages
0-5 years of experience
- DSM diagnosis, treatment planning, and mental health assessment
- Conducted evidence based practice therapy with children, teens, and families in tehe community or at their homes
- Served as therapeutic team leader and collaborated with mental health professionals, parol officers, social workers, and teachers to provide quality mental health care for clients
0-5 years of experience
- Coordinated with the Registered Nurse and the interdisciplinary team, to perform mental health counseling.
- Provided behavioral intervention based on assessed needs for patients and routinely performed patient care duties.
- Provided individual and group therapy to patients with chronic mental illnesses, chemical dependency, and geriatric needs.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide connections and referrals to community agencies; psychiatry, counseling, family services, and juvenile systems.
- Collaborate with school staff to develop effective Individualized Education Plans and/or 504 Plans to resolve educational concerns.
- Deliver crisis intervention and critical incident stress management services.
- Promote personal growth in clients to overcome problems related to social interactions, mental/emotional health and family relationships.
- Support family units in establishing a safe and supportive environment that encourages successful growth and development.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for implementing individual and group counseling within a residential unit for children and adolescents.
- Responsible for implementing individual and group programs through care supervision, monitoring and direction of the client.
- Use effective therapeutic methods for dealing and interacting with children with behavior and conduct disorders.
- Responsible for creating treatment plans through motivational enhancement, problem oriented and solution focused treatment.
- Create psychiatric reports for state agencies and private psychiatric facilities.
0-5 years of experience
Working for the ACT team that is focused and centered on the recovery of participants
- Providing weekly onsite and offsite individual therapy to adult participants who have mental health diagnosis, abuse drugs and alcohol, dual diagnosis and co-occurring disorders
- Completing recover plans monthly assisting participants to come up with their own practical behavioral goals
- Completing notes daily and other necessary materials such as releases, crisis intervention plans, housing request, making doctors' appointments, safety plans, preventions plans, budgeting
- Delivering medications (mediations for psychotic and physical diagnosis) to the participants' residence every day as well as completing wellbeing check
- Transporting participants to doctor appointments, court hearings, housing meeting with the state, the bank, grocery shopping
- The ACT team is also the rep-payee which allow us to manage participants' money; educate on how to save and spend their money appropriately
- Having everyday case management team meetings with RN nurses, a psychiatrist, housing specialist, job specialist, drug and alcohol specialist, mental health specialist, and peer support specialist regarding the well-being of our participants (including medication management) and obtaining interventions
0-5 years of experience
- Participate as a member of a treatment team in developing and modifying treatment plans; implement treatment plans
- May serve as a lead person over other mental health paraprofessionals.
- Provide case management to mentally ill or elderly clients; may provide counseling, money management or other related services, as well as basic client counseling in groups or on an individual basis.
- Manage a small mental health or related program; assists in managing a large program.
- Maintain records, prepares reports and performs other administrative duties as required.
- Provide skilled direct 1:1 patient care to clients in a 24 hour psychiatric facility or day treatment program; evaluate patient progress and status, record clinical notes, advise physicians on treatment plans and medications, counsels' clients and family.
0-5 years of experience
Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.
- Guide clients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their problems.
- Counsel clients and patients, individually and in group sessions, to assist them in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes.
- Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, and help them to develop insight into themselves and their relationships.
- Counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting clients or patients.
0-5 years of experience
- Work on an ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) team with the main premise of housing the homeless with severe mental illness
- Assist with completing and working towards their ISP (Individual Service Plan)
- Assist clients with managing their daily basic needs
- Link clients with local community resources
- Tender Mercies Liaison; assist clients with attaining and maintaining appointments
0-5 years of experience
- Certified new staff on “CPI” (Crisis Prevention Intervention). Verbal de-escalation techniques, physical holds and restraints.
- Assisted Patients during ECT treatment.
- Led patient therapeutic groups (Creative writing groups, Challenges and Goals groups, Activity groups, etc.).
- Documented group notes and patient progress notes.
- Assisted patients with daily living routines.
- Utilized de-escalation strategies to assist patients with self-regulation.
- Managed complex patient situations.
- Monitored patient’s safety and well-being.
- Collected specimens, obtained vital signs and weights.
0-5 years of experience
- Assists in the direct care and management of patients as prescribed by the psychiatrists, therapists and treatment team
- Provides training, guidance and leadership to mental health associates as well as identifying areas of improvement and make recommendations in collaboration with the Nurse Manager
- Provides social, emotional and cognitive treatment through counseling interventions
- Develops, plans and implements daily therapeutic intervention treatment programs for the Pediatric & Adolescent populations
- Implements behavioral support plans that focuses on addressing and enhancing the patient's social, emotional, cognitive and mental health issues and needs
- Provide daily therapeutic milieu management
0-5 years of experience
- Taught children with behavior challenges on how to handle day to day issues in a positive way
- Discussed treatment plans with parents and counselors
- Monitored changes and outcomes of children's behavior
0-5 years of experience
- Administer counseling and casework services to 25 patients, including adults and adolescents.
- Provide crisis intervention services to patients who are a danger to themselves or others.
- Monitor patients' treatment progress and keep track of his or her mental status.
- Analyze patient behavior and group interactions to improve treatment processes.
0-5 years of experience
- Conduct therapeutic physical managements to assist troubled children
- Assist children with developing life skills and promote age-appropriate behavior
- Update treatment plans, evaluating child's areas of growth and development needs
- Document appropriate behavioral health information in a timely manner.
0-5 years of experience
- Administer and deliver mental health counseling services to individuals and families
- Provide crisis intervention services to clients
- Monitor client’s treatment progress and keep track of his or her mental status by creating and maintaining written records
- Act as a liaison between the youth and family and the service team and other providers
- Develop and maintain various supports and services in the community for the youth and family
- Assist the youth and family with identifying and establishing relationships with natural supports
0-5 years of experience
- Worked with patients and families to determine the goals for treatment.
- Collaborate with other mental health practitioners to develop treatment plans for patients
- Conduct individual group therapy sessions for patients suffering from mental illness.
- Assist in the oversight of group therapy sessions and ensure safety of patients and other specialists.
- Assist with determining the need for rehabilitation assessment.
- Make treatment recommendation for patients suffering from mental illness, and emotional and substance abuse problems.
0-5 years of experience
- Complete intakes, assess mental health needs and refer to Clinical Psychiatrist for further evaluation.
- Fulfilled the duties of a role model and leader for both youth and employees.
- Maintains effective comminution with treatment team and clients
- Create and maintain a support system for clients and coworkers
- Displayed remarkable skills in implementing crisis prevention and intervention techniques
10+ years of experience
- Establish therapeutic relationships with patients by modeling behaviors and setting limits.
- Leads and co-leads groups ensuring therapeutic outcome, based on patient census.
- Ensuring work areas are organized, safe, and ready for the next activity or shift.
- Effectively communicates by interacting with patients of diverse demographic backgrounds.
- Assists in planning patient activities and recreation schedules, including external outings.
0-5 years of experience
- Counsels clients with mental disorders/behaviors.
- Document encounters during sessions with clients.
- Prepare appointments for client meetings.
- Conducts social assessments for clients.
- Ensures all sessions are documented within a timely manner.
0-5 years of experience
- Assist licensed professional staff with assessing, planning, and providing mental health services in the clinic, institutions, field and community settings.
- Responsible for reliable transportation to provide mental health services along with providing the client with transportation to therapeutic settings.
- Assist with assuring compliance to all applicable rules, regulations, policy, and/or procedures of the agency and governing bodies.
- Work closely with Foster Care Agencies, Wrap Around Services, Law Enforcement Agencies, Courts and various community-based resources in providing services to clients and their families.
- Responsible for ongoing behavior monitoring, symptom monitoring and medication management monitoring in addition to reporting to medical providers and supervisors
- Resolve crisis situations such as suicide threats, suicide attempts, hostile behavior along with determining risks and needs so that services are provided to meet those needs
6-10 years of experience
- Monitor and provide support to clients transitioning from hospitals and crisis units in residential treatment.
- Monitoring client's self-administration of medications.
- Facilitate therapeutic groups that include coping skills, self-awareness, understanding resources, and education of dual diagnosis.
- Conducting intake procedure when clients present to crisis unit.
- Monitor and manage dynamic flow on crisis unit.
- Promoted to three different programs while at Columbus Area Integrated Health that include: WRAP Services, Community Treatment Team, and IDDT/ACT Team.
- Street Outreach Volunteer with Salvation Army's Human Trafficking Program 2014-2017.
- Achieved employee of the month in April, 2008 and October, 2013 at Columbus Area Inc.
- Achieved employee of the year in 2009 at Columbus Area Inc.
- Vice President and Secretary for National Criminal Justice Organization, chapter Lambda Alpha Epsilon in 2007 and 2008.
0-5 years of experience
- Mental health specialists are often responsible for providing counseling and casework services to patients.
- Responsibilities may include assessing patients' mental status through interviews or observations and then developing treatment plans or making referrals to the appropriate services.
- Provide crisis intervention services to patients who are a danger to themselves or others.
- Mental health specialists monitor a patient's treatment progress and keep track of his or her mental status.
0-5 years of experience
- Skilled in working under the supervision of a Licensed Professional Counselor.
- Monitoring and tracking progress of patients
- Case notes and date collection.
- Provided emotional and mental to clients.
- Strong Organizational Skills
- Skilled in writing and implementing treatment plans
0-5 years of experience
- Provide individual and family skill building therapy session
- Work with individuals and families to determine their strength and needs
- Facilitate monthly meetings with individuals and families to evaluate goals and improvement areas
- Document and track progress of individuals and families on a weekly basis
0-5 years of experience
- Providing support on medical units with high acuity behavioral needs
- Relaying patient status information to medical team
- Providing support to Emergency department for patients with psychiatric evaluations.
- Implementing Crisis Intervention techniques to ensure safety and de-escalation
0-5 years of experience
- Offers support, guidance, and encouragement to each consumer through their individual paths of rehabilitation, recovery, and sense of independence
- Assists consumers with medical matters, financial needs, grocery shopping, nutrition lessons, transportation, and crisis intervention
- Shares responsibility with staff members to maintain the well-being of the consumers and the group home.
- Completes paperwork and shift duties within the designated period required by the program
0-5 years of experience
- Mental health specialists are often responsible for providing counseling and casework services to patients.
- Assessing patient’s mental status through interviews or observations and developing treatment plans or making referrals to the appropriate services.
- Mental health specialist monitor a patient’s treatment progress and keep track of his or her mental status.
10+ years of experience
- Clinical triage and psychiatry support services
- Behavior Management and coaching
- Assist and lead groups for Anxiety, Eating Disorders, and other mental health issues
- Specialized knowledge, judgment and skills in both mental health diagnosis and treatment methods
- Responsible for answering the crisis line, safety planning, crisis planning, and helping families navigate the mental health system.
- Monitoring of clinic flow and patient vitals
0-5 years of experience
- Provide individual counseling services for adults
- Facilitate growth, mental stability and independence.
- Assist in the development, ongoing monitoring and implementation of an Individualized Service Plan
- Complete monthly, quarterly and annual reports
- Complete daily BIRP progress notes via Lauris
6-10 years of experience
- Provides quality mental health services to at-risk individuals in the community
- Advocates mental health needs of client, eliminating barriers and providing linkage to community resources
- Implements therapeutics techniques to aid in management of mental health symptoms
- Facilitates weekly interventions, reviewing treatment goals and objectives
- Monitors therapeutic progression, making appropriate revisions to treatment plan
0-5 years of experience
- Conduct psychosocial initial evaluation and interviews.
- Provide individual counseling with formerly incarcerated women.
- Facilitate daily therapeutic women's groups.
- Write client progress reports to probation officers and judges.
- Implement evidenced-based case management needs.
- Ensure continuity of care and successful community reintegration of clients.
- Perform scientific literature searches in support of research.
- Collect data for performance measures and maintain confidentiality.
0-5 years of experience
- Complete intakes with families entering the shelter to assess level of mental health functioning and develop an individualized case plan.
- Provide case management services to shelter clients, including seriously mentally ill and severely emotionally disturbed clients, homeless individuals, and survivors of domestic violence.
- Monitor implementation of individualized case plan through weekly meetings.
- Provide direct services such as peer counseling, information and referrals, transportation, advocacy and coaching/training related to job searching, house searching, budgeting and applying for public benefits.
- Complete documentation in Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS).
- Attend staff meetings and professional development trainings.
- Member of Kings Partnership for Prevention - Mental and Emotional Wellbeing Workgroup (co-facilitating trainings on mental health for elementary school teachers).
- Certified in Mental Health First Aid and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills.
0-5 years of experience
- Teach/monitor individuals self-management skills
- Teach problem solving skills/ resolving conflicts
- Perform daily record keeping/daily logs
- Teach and administer medication skills according to DMR regulations
- Encourage Empowerment
- Sight and Sound Supervision
0-5 years of experience
- Provide direct care services to children with emotional disorders
- Support children in a crisis moments and implement behavior interventions
- De-escalate inappropriate behavior
- Maintain confidential notes in data base
0-5 years of experience
- Assess client's needs and collaborate with client to complete individualized service plan
- Monitor client's usage of agency prescribed medications
- Ensure client's mental and physical health needs are met
- Maintain client's records via case note entry
0-5 years of experience
- Provide discharge planning services to Mental Health Patients
- Work in conjunction with the treatment team to facilitate discharges
- Meet with families/patients to obtain/document Psychosocial history
0-5 years of experience
- Work with patients and families to determine the goals for patients' treatment.
- Provide counseling and casework services to patients.
- Assess patients' mental status through interviews and observations.
- Develop treatment plans or making referrals to the appropriate services for the patients.
- Provide crisis intervention services to patients who are a danger to themselves or others.
- Monitor patient's treatment progress and keep track of his or her mental status.
- Record and keep records of all patient interactions.
- Work with other mental health practitioners to develop treatment plans for patients.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide counseling and casework services to patients
- Complete comprehensive and mental health assessment.
- Monitor patient's treatment progress and keep track of his or her mental status
0-5 years of experience
- Completes initial and quarterly psychosocial assessments
- Develops individual, strengths-based care plans
- Provides case management services related to homelessness issues
- Works with clients with severe and persistent mental illness
- Assisted with linking clients to health care and mental health providers
- Collaborates client care with Department of Health, Department of Mental Health, and The Housing Authority of Los Angeles.
- Participates in ongoing Case Management Workshops, clinical supervision, and other mental health related trainings.
- Familiar with Harm Reduction practices to service clients
- Assisted with permanent housing for clients experiencing homelessness
0-5 years of experience
- Advocate for students' education, safety and well-being
- Assist with researching resources for students and their families within the community
- Attend clinician meetings, supervision, and staff meetings as required
- Complete tasks as needed by Supervisors
- Educate students on how to navigate through high school and manage associated stressors
- Establish, update and maintain student files
- Motivate and introduce students to new activities occurring within SBYSP and EHS
- Provide case management and crisis intervention to students on caseload
- Use clinical skills to provide individual, family and group counseling
0-5 years of experience
Taught Coping Skills to Students.
- Taught Students to deal with Behavior Problems.
- Taught Families to deal with mental health problems.
- Taught Families skills to successfully cope in the home.
0-5 years of experience
- Teach Social Skills and Teach Independent Living Skills
- Provide crisis intervention services to patients who are a danger to themselves or others.
- Assist in providing mental health care to patients.
- Monitor a Client treatment progress and keep track of his or her mental status.
- Written and Electronic records must be kept of all patient interactions.
- Participate in patient's treatment planning with other staff members.
- Establishing an open and trustworthy relationship with patients.
- Insert notes
- Taking vital signs (only on Dr. day)
0-5 years of experience
- Maintain safe environment
- Administer medication to youth when necessary
- Provide and create structure
0-5 years of experience
- Mentor the youth
- Assist with assignments
- Monitor Behavior Changes and Document using the computer