Description
Assess and treat individuals with mental and behavioral health conditions, including co-occurring substance use, across clinical and community settings. Provide brief therapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, advocacy, prevention, and psychoeducation in collaboration with an interdisciplinary care team.
- • Provide brief, evidence-based counseling in individual or group sessions to address mental health and co-occurring substance use needs.
- • Collaborate with primary care, psychiatry, nursing, and other providers to develop and coordinate integrated behavioral health care plans.
- • Monitor, document, and evaluate client progress toward behavioral health goals using standardized measures.
- • Connect clients and families to community resources for housing, benefits, medical care, and specialty behavioral health services, and follow up to ensure access.
- • Engage and coach family members or supports to help them understand and reinforce the care plan.
- • Adjust care plans based on risk, progress, and changing social determinants of health.
- • Develop or deliver prevention, psychoeducation, and health promotion programs for patients and communities.
- • Supervise or mentor case managers, peer specialists, or interns as assigned.
- • Contribute to program development, quality improvement, and policy initiatives that advance behavioral health access and equity.
- • Conduct biopsychosocial assessments, risk and safety evaluations, and screenings using standardized tools.
- • Provide psychoeducation on mental health conditions, coping skills, medications, and available resources.
- • Coordinate care logistics, including appointments, transportation, benefits, and follow-up contacts to support adherence.
- • Deliver crisis intervention, de-escalation, and safety planning for clients at risk of harm to self or others.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
