Mental health clinician vs licensed professional counselor

Differences between mental health clinician and licensed professional counselor duties and responsibilities

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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Licensed professional counselor example responsibilities.

• Conduct group check-in and co-lead group psychotherapy sessions to help clients identify and manage problems associate with psychiatric conditions.
• Provide clinical supervision to LPC candidates, contract clinicians and counseling psychology practicum/internship students.
• Assign, direct, and provide supervision of screening assessment complete by LPC and LCSW.
• Conduct intakes and assessments on new admissions and recommend placement into services base on ASAM criteria.
• Coordinate with the patient's family, attending physician, other hospitals and agencies following HIPAA standards.
• Specialize in OCD and animal assist psychotherapy.
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