Social Work/Mental Health Counselor- Quannacut Outpatient

Job Duties & Essential Functions:

• Conducts thorough intakes to identify problem areas and formulate initial diagnosis and treatment recommendation.
• Develops initial treatment plan and monitors patient progress through ongoing reviews.
• Assists and directs clients to complete necessary paperwork for entitlements.
• Makes referrals for clients and family members to available community resources.
• Monitors care of clients through follow-up with agencies and available community resources.
• Provides individual, group, family, and marital counseling with primary focus on substance use and impact on life areas.
• Displays knowledge of alcohol and other addictive drugs and their effects on human behavior.
• Displays knowledge of the disease concept, harm reduction, and factors that impact recovery.
• Informs the patient of their rights and responsibilities, including confidentiality and their treatment recommendation.
• Works through adverse reactions and/or resistance of patients during the treatment process.
• Fosters an empathetic and therapeutic relationship and can engage the patient.
• Shows ability to educate, elicit feelings, facilitate self-understanding and motivate patients.
• Recognizes and deals with denial and other defense mechanisms.
• Effectively utilizes crisis intervention techniques and their specific application to alcoholic/chemically addicted patients.
• Effectively assists patients in reframing and interpreting life experiences to address their sense of shame and guilt, and to deal with defense mechanisms and low self-esteem.
• Demonstrate use of common psycho-therapeutic techniques used to augment recovery.
• Identifies underlying psychological and/or emotional issues that warrant treatment focus.
• Effectively explores deep-seated underlying issues.
• Effectively identifies and copes with transference and countertransference.
• Displays capable skills specifically inherent