Licensed Therapist

Job Summary: Provide behavioral health consultation utilizing a team-based model to children, adolescents, adults, and families to improve psychosocial functioning.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provided comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of behavioral health clients.
• Provide effective treatment planning and assist clients in successfully achieving goals.
• Evaluate crisis situations and apply appropriate intervention.
• Provide individual therapy to referred patients.
• Assist in the detection of "at risk" patients and development of plans to prevent further psychological or physical deterioration.
• Assist the primary care team in developing care management processes such as the use of guidelines, disease management techniques, case management, and patient education to improve self-management of chronic disease.
• Provide assessment, consultation, and brief intervention for psychological/psychiatric problems and/or disorders.
• Teach patients, families, and staff care, prevention, and treatment enhancement techniques.
• Monitor the site's behavioral health program, identifying problems related to patient services and making recommendations for improvement.
• Participates in Quality Improvement (QI), Quality Assurance (QA) and Continuous Quality Improvement Activities (CQI) as appropriate.