Substance abuse clinician vs behavioral therapist

Differences between substance abuse clinician and behavioral therapist duties and responsibilities

Substance abuse clinician example responsibilities.

• Provide clinical assessments, psychotherapy, and case management for patients and clients recovering from mental health disorders and substance addiction.
• Provide individual and group treatment and rehabilitation for youth diagnose with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders.
• Provide all forms of intervention, from assessment to aftercare, to patients suffering with substance-relate, psychiatric and co-occurring disorders.
• Facilitate psychoeducational and rehabilitation groups using standard group techniques.
• Assess and treat elementary school students with articulation, language, and autism spectrum disorders under an apprenticeship model of supervision.
• Assist team of professionals with developing ISP's, IEP's, and needs assessments to determine proper treatment.
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Behavioral therapist example responsibilities.

• Manage behavioral program for each client assign (CPI training).
• Modele self-help and independent skills to assist autistic and developmentally delay children achieving their establish goals.
• Assist the BCBA in assessing new clients, supervising line therapists, providing parent training, and formulating client specific programs.
• Analyze and interpret results through graphing data collect from individual sessions.
• Work collaboratively with BCBA's and direct line staff to ensure care plan and procedures are being implement consistently and uniformly.
• Communicate with school administration, school teacher's and teaching assistants with helping create IEP's and behavior plans for individuals.
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