Job Summary: Provide behavioral health consultation utilizing a team-based model to children, adolescents, adults, and families to improve psychosocial functioning.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provided comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of behavioral health clients.
Provide effective treatment planning and assist clients in successfully achieving goals.
Evaluate crisis situations and apply appropriate intervention.
Provide individual therapy to referred patients.
Assist in the detection of "at risk" patients and development of plans to prevent further psychological or physical deterioration.
Assist the primary care team in developing care management processes such as the use of guidelines, disease management techniques, case management, and patient education to improve self-management of chronic disease.
Provide assessment, consultation, and brief intervention for psychological/psychiatric problems and/or disorders.
Teach patients, families, and staff care, prevention, and treatment enhancement techniques.
Monitor the site's behavioral health program, identifying problems related to patient services and making recommendations for improvement.
Participates in Quality Improvement (QI), Quality Assurance (QA) and Continuous Quality Improvement Activities (CQI) as appropriate.