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Psychiatric Social Worker / LMHC
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- The Psychiatric Social Worker/Mental Health Counselor is responsible for providing thorough and clinically appropriate, culturally competent and trauma informed social work interventions including, but not limited to, Social Work psychiatric emergency evaluations, psychosocial assessments, person-centered treatment planning, group and individual therapy/psychoeducation, crisis interventions, family/collateral engagement and coordination of aftercare.
- Individual evaluation and assessment: The Psychiatric Social Worker/Mental Health Counselor utilizes available records to gather psychosocial and diagnostic information relevant to a patients, conducts patient interviews and interviews of family members/caregivers and providers in the community, assesses patients' mental status, psychosocial functioning, and the nature and extent of symptoms.
- The Psychiatric Social Worker/Mental Health Counselor also helps identify needs and coordinate resources after discharge to promote recovery.
- In the Emergency Department setting, the Psychiatric Social Worker, in addition to above, conducts the Social Work Psychiatric Emergency Evaluations, whereas, the Mental Health Counselor in the Emergency Department performs a discharge planning function.
- Engagement and supportive counseling: The Psychiatric Social Worker/Mental Health Counselor rapidly builds rapport and establishes a therapeutic alliance with patients; provide crisis intervention and stabilization as well as brief supportive and solution-focused therapy to patients and their caregivers
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