Psychologist
Serene psychiatry hospital
Total years of experience :5 years, 3 Months
Provide individual psychotherapy to outpatient individuals seeking assistance with mental health issues, substance abuse, family/marital issues, and other adversities.
•Utilize various modalities (CBT, solution-focused, mindfulness, psychodynamic) to support clients in exploring and overcoming their problems.
•Took initiative to create and monitor daily program schedule for inpatient wards.
•Developed and conducted 6 support groups and group therapy curriculums for male and female inpatient wards.
•Perform psychological assessments and psychometric testing.
•Complete crisis intervention using active listening, validation and safety assessments.
•Implement suicide intervention and prevention strategies.
•Educate on and offer support, referrals and crisis intervention for rape/sexual assault, domestic violence, drug/alcohol concerns, and general life stressors.
•Create policies for regular/frequent callers.
•Supervise and train crisis intervention volunteers on how to answer crisis calls. Use feedback model to process and analyze calls in role plays.
•Triage with public safety officials in life-threatening situations.
•Manage up to 8 lines at a time, including a psychiatric unit line, two nurse on-call lines, two support group lines and a documentation line for developmentally delayed individuals.
Conduct biopsychosocial assessments; 3-4 assessments per week.
•Collaborate with behavioral health team to provide diagnosis, therapies, and treatments.
•Provide individual psychotherapy to clients dealing with substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, unemployment, and life stressors utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, mindfulness and solution focused therapy.
•Create manualized anger management group six week curriculum, applying psycho-education, CBT, and relaxation skills.
•Co-facilitate three anger management groups of 3-15 people.
•Develop treatment plans based on clients' interests, abilities, and needs.
•Monitor, evaluate, and record client progress with respect to treatment goals, and modify treatment goals and modalities as needed.
•Exchanged clean needles in harm reduction effort for intravenous injection drug use.
•Perform risk assessments for suicidal, homicidal and self-injurious behavior.
•Train and supervise incoming interns in conducting assessments, diagnosing and using electronic health records.
•Maintain confidentiality of records.
Review records, conduct biopsychosocial and substance abuse & mental illness (SAMI) assessments, and confer with other professionals to evaluate the mental or physical condition of patients.
•Co-facilitate discharge planning group with forensic patients.
•Collaborate with psychiatrists, social workers, and nurses to plan or coordinate treatment.
•Educate patients about mental or physical illness, substance/alcohol abuse, medication, and available community resources.
•Identify patient strengths and environmental impediments to progress through interviews and review of patient records.
•Maintain confidentiality of records.
Provide crisis intervention to clients in the shelter, as well as to potential intakes via crisis line.
•Complete client intakes.
•Educate clients and community members on available resources.
•Maintain safety of families.
•Maintain confidential client files and shelter location.
•Foster supportive environment to clients at the shelter.
Prepare, manipulate, and manage extensive databases using SPSS; coding, data entry.
•Perform descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses of data using SPSS.
•Edit and submit protocols and other required research documentation.
•Screen potential subjects, recruit and schedule research participants; manage schedule.
•Track laboratory supplies, and expenses such as participant reimbursement.
•Supervise research assistants.
•Develop advertisements for subject recruitment.
•Volunteer at local food pantry for subject recruitment.
Follow standard operating procedures for multiple research protocols.
•Administer standardized questionnaires and computer programs.
•Perform descriptive statistical analyses of data using SPSS and data entry.
•Collect saliva specimens.
•Administer phone screening to determine subject eligibility.
•Utilize and maintain physiological monitoring devices.
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