Behavioral health specialist vs therapist

Differences between behavioral health specialist and therapist duties and responsibilities

Behavioral health specialist example responsibilities.

• Provide individualize intervention for problematic behaviors using TCI techniques such as de-escalation, to prevent and/or manage crisis.
• Complete training in CPR, self-defense, and mental health.
• Monitor meals for residents suffering from eating disorders and provide compassion and encouragement when an individual are struggling with eating.
• Work with kids who have special needs.
• Ensure departments are in compliance with MSHA and OSHA regulations.
• Provide daily and weekly detail reports on client and BHP interaction.
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Therapist example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator and BiPAP's and create or update care plans per patient needs.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of community mental health services identify in the Medicaid guidelines and attain contractual outcomes within designate time frames.
• Provide on-call crisis intervention as well as standard treatment, rehabilitation and support services with some interventions requiring specialize therapy services.
• Develop and implement an effective curriculum of DBT inform group and art therapy classes specifically tailor for chemically dependent patients.
• Provide trauma-inform individual psychotherapy, TREM group treatment protocol, and EMDR.
• Utilize current brain base therapeutic techniques to teach clients adaptive skills to utilize in daily lives.
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