Marriage and family therapist vs mental health clinician

Differences between marriage and family therapist and mental health clinician 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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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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