Marriage and family therapist vs line therapist

Differences between marriage and family therapist and line therapist 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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Line therapist example responsibilities.

• Teach family members and teachers different ways to achieve cooperation with child and transfer skills to ensure an efficient learning environment.
• Instruct training classes and train new staff in ABA therapy, as well as behavior management.
• Improve child's self-help skills including getting dress, oral hygiene, and using the toilet.
• Work under BCBA supervision to address behavioral, academic, social, and life skills using the VB-MAPP.
• Implement one on one behavioral intervention programs to enrich the child's fine/gross motor, self-help and academic skills
• Develop goals for each individual child with guidance from a BCBA using the VB-MAPP, updating progress on the VB-MAPP regularly.
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