Greater St. Louis
Evaluate mental health diagnosis, create, and implement a treatment plan, complete ongoing documentation including further diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, and case notes. Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals
Work as a medical social worker in the hematology/oncology unit. • Coordinate all patient and family services ensuring patient's life goals are maintained during treatment • Provide education, safety planning, frequent supportive counseling, and coping skills to patients and families in areas of acceptance, grief, adjustment, etc. • Coordinate with medical team to assist with course of treatment plan
Worked as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) mental health counselor. Responsible for supportive counseling, advocacy, resource referral, and crisis management. • Co-facilitated Parent Support Groups once a week; provided supportive counseling to parents/families experiencing bereavement, trauma, grief, and other psychosocial concerns • Routinely screened parents and family members for Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders and provided short solution-based counseling • Assessed parent/family social and emotional factors in order to estimate their potential to cope with hospital stay and varying diagnoses
Worked in the Gastroenterology, Nephrology, and Asthma Units as a medical social worker, working with patients through case management, psychosocial assessments, liver and kidney transplant assessments, safety planning, supportive counseling, advocacy, resource referral, and crisis management. • Routinely met with patients and their families during dialysis treatments • Coordinated with medical team to assist with treatment plan
• Helped people living with, or at-risk of developing, mental illness to address psychosocial elements by providing resources, supportive counseling, safety planning, and crisis management to help clients maintain their daily functioning • Developed a resource that allowed the agency to administer guidance while increasing opportunity for client success and self-sufficiency