Mental health specialist vs mental health clinician

Differences between mental health specialist and mental health clinician duties and responsibilities

Mental health specialist example responsibilities.

• Provide individualize intervention for problematic behaviors using TCI techniques such as de-escalation, to prevent and/or manage crisis.
• Assist and encourage patients with ADL's including feeding, ambulating, and hygiene to promote patient care.
• Utilize rehabilitation principles to support individuals, families and communities in developing effective strategies to improve client mental health functioning.
• Provide psychological care to patients in an in-patient psych unit, including facilitating group activities, crisis intervention, implementing therapeutic approaches
• Meet physical requirements to complete SAMA and CPR training.
• Provide kindness and compassion to the deceased and their families.
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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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