Under broad supervision, provides rehabilitation counseling services, referral services, and resident evaluation to assigned clients in a detention setting.
Responsibility 1 Performs and/or directs intake services to youth
Responsibility 2 Directs or completes mental health assessments of youth
Responsibility 3 Provides therapeutic counseling to individuals, groups or families, to effect positive change in the youth’s behavior and/or social situations.
Responsibility 4 Leads or participates as a member of a treatment team to identify youths’ strengths, resources, symptoms, and psychological challenges to develop and monitor an effective plan of treatment.
Responsibility 5 Prepares and submits required reports and other documentation.
Responsibility 6 Engages in clinical supervision to facilitate development of clinical knowledge, skills and professional integrity of mental health services provided to youth
This position requires the completion of a Master`s degree in a mental health field from an accredited college or university (e.g., counseling, social work or psychology). The degree must be in an area that would qualify the graduate for licensure by the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists.