Marriage and family therapist vs clinical social worker

Differences between marriage and family therapist and clinical social worker duties and responsibilities

Marriage and family therapist example responsibilities.

• Conduct play therapy with elementary age students to help manage anxiety, divorce, ADHD, etc.
• Develop effective treatment plans and implement evidence-base strategies to assist patients in alleviating psychological symptoms and achieving goals.
• Train in EMDR, DBT, work with divorce issues, PTSD, deployment/reunification, anxiety, and depression issues.
• Counsele patients experiencing common mental health problems including emotional and physical abuse, family issues, relationship problems and parenting problems.
• Attend weekly DBT team meetings and supervision including mindfulness activities and focus on DBT principles.
• Administer outcome measures to track baseline symptoms, such as the YOQ, CBCL, UCLA PTSD assessment tools.
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Clinical social worker example responsibilities.

• Understand manage care, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
• Screen, identify, diagnose using DSM nomenclature, treat and manage mental health and/or substance abuse problems.
• Provide clinical services to patients in rehabilitation and oncology including assessment, crisis intervention, grief therapy, and discharge planning.
• Provide individual, group, family therapy, team coordination, discharge planning, utilization review and MSW student supervision.
• Participate in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings to determine Medicare length of skil nursing stay.
• Facilitate therapy, symptom management, and rehabilitation groups for mental health clients in partial hospitalization setting.
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