Health therapist vs mental health clinician

Differences between health therapist and mental health clinician duties and responsibilities

Health therapist example responsibilities.

• Demonstrate working knowledge of community mental health services identify in the Medicaid guidelines and attain contractual outcomes within designate time frames.
• Work with children who have autism by providing direct services.
• Provide acute therapeutic intervention to adult and geriatric patients presenting with varying mental health diagnoses, seeking support and stabilization.
• Record and maintain daily activities and rehabilitation progress for medical evaluation.
• Facilitate therapy groups with adults and adolescents on acute psychiatric units and chemical dependency rehabilitation programs.
• Facilitate transfer of patients to appropriate levels of care as determined by interdisciplinary team during or after completing treatment.
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Mental health clinician example responsibilities.

• Work with children with autism and developmental impairment, providing weekly therapeutic sessions.
• Provide individual and group psychotherapy for adult population with goal of rehabilitation and community reintegration.
• Meet productivity standards comply with all DMH documentation standards and participate in on call crisis intervention rotation.
• Provide psychotherapy with empathy and concern as indicated by supervisory observation and feedback from patients, family and fellow team members.
• Provide clinical therapeutic services to patients, including individual and group therapy and coordination of treatment for participants with co-occurring disorders.
• Assess, diagnose, provide psychotherapy and rehabilitation for seriously mentally ill adults, children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbance.
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