Therapist/Clinician

Therapists provide interventions that involve the principles, methods, and procedures of counseling that assist the persons served on identifying and resolving personal, social, vocational, intrapersonal and interpersonal concerns. These interventions should be directed toward achievement of specific goals defined by the individual consumers and their family which is to be detailed in the Individual Service Recovery Plan (ISRP) also known as the Treatment Plan through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Therapists also provide interventions directed toward achievement of specific goals defined with/by the consumer and targeted to the consumer and identified family (note: although interventions may involve the family, the focus or primary beneficiary of intervention must always be the individual consumer). Therapists may also engage in family counseling which provides systematic interactions between the identified individual consumer, staff and the individual’s identified family members which will be directed toward the restoration, development, enhancement or maintenance of the functioning of the identified consumer/family unit; this includes support of the family and specific therapeutic interventions/activities to enhance family roles, relationships, communication and functioning that promote the recovery of the individual.

Specific Responsibilities:

Therapists in community-based services, develop and utilize SMART interventions dedicated to the 1). Restoration, development, enhancement or maintenance of processing skills, 2). Healthy coping mechanisms, adaptive behaviors and skills, interpersonal skills, 3). Family roles and relationships, 4). The family’s understanding of mental illness and substance related disorders, 5). The steps necessary to facilitate recovery, and methods of intervention, interaction and mutual support the family can use to assist their family member. Particularly, Team Leaders generally provide support, oversight, and supervision of other mental health professionals including licensed clinicians and paraprofessionals. Team Leads provide coaching, encouragement, and guidance to clinical issues, interventions, and other service provision ideas and challenges.

Other specific responsibilities include:

1. Provides individual, family and group therapy or skills training services within MDFT model designed for children, adolescents, adults, and families.

2. Provides psychosocial support and psycho education to youth and family to cope with behavioral health difficulties.

3. Address through therapeutic interventions, specific goals/issues as indicated on the ISRP for each client individually.

4. Conduct assessment/reassessment on consumers upon entrance to the program as well as for reauthorizations.

5. With authorization, complete and sign Order for Services form, for each client.

6. Assist in the acquisition of skills for the person to self-recognize emotional triggers and to self-manage behaviors related to the behavioral health issue.

7. Assist with personal development, work performance, and functioning in social and family environments through teaching skills/strategies to ameliorate the effect of behavioral health symptoms.

8. Assist with enhancing social and coping skills that ameliorate life stresses resulting from the person’s mental illness/addiction.