Therapist vs counseling psychologist

Differences between therapist and counseling psychologist duties and responsibilities

Therapist example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator and BiPAP's and create or update care plans per patient needs.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of community mental health services identify in the Medicaid guidelines and attain contractual outcomes within designate time frames.
• Provide on-call crisis intervention as well as standard treatment, rehabilitation and support services with some interventions requiring specialize therapy services.
• Develop and implement an effective curriculum of DBT inform group and art therapy classes specifically tailor for chemically dependent patients.
• Provide trauma-inform individual psychotherapy, TREM group treatment protocol, and EMDR.
• Utilize current brain base therapeutic techniques to teach clients adaptive skills to utilize in daily lives.
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Counseling psychologist example responsibilities.

• Conduct and write triennial and initial assessments, participate and lead IEP meetings, functional behavioral assessments, behavior support plans.
• Advance training in DBT and EMDR.
• Establish a join ADHD clinic with one of the local pediatricians.
• Provide psycho-diagnostic and psycho therapeutic services to cancer patients.
• Develop a team orient treatment plan for patients producing quantitative measurable results.
• Develop training materials for alcohol abuse treatment & rehabilitation services, including prevention of domestic violence, child abuse and homelessness.
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