Substance Use Disorder Counselor Resume Example

• Provide consultation and assistance to medical providers on the management of behavioral health concerns in primary care and help implement the team-determined treatment plan.
• Conduct brief screenings to evaluate the needs of adults, adolescents, and children for behavioral health intervention, case management, or ongoing mental health or addiction treatment. Provide referrals for more intensive services where appropriate.
• Provide short-term behavioral interventions to engage and motivate clients to actively manage their care. Conduct follow-up as appropriate based on assessment and treatment. Provide crisis management for clients as needed; make linkages for interventions as appropriate.
• Participate in ongoing training in behavioral health issues and provide consultation and training to primary care clinic staff in mental health and behavioral medicine topics including communication skills, brief interventions, counseling skills, medication use and misuse, substance abuse, wellness, rehabilitation, recovery and self-sufficiency.
• Establish and maintain a current listing of community linkages to meet the needs of the target population. Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with community providers. Initiate linkages, disseminate information and make referrals to the appropriate services as needed.
• Conduct patient satisfaction surveys with patients receiving behavioral health services under the program. Also, participate in program model development and evaluation, and collect and compile data as required by program model leads.
• Participate in regular multidisciplinary case conferences with medical providers as needed. Complete population health projects as assigned and panel-manage patients in collaboration with other behavioral health staff.

• Hours: 270 Client Contact, 240 Administrative, 90 Supervision

• Individual counseling: Rapport building, wrote client assessments, diagnosed clients with clinical diagnosis using DSM-V, created and successfully completed treatment plans with clients. Completed client termination letters, discharge summaries, and report summaries. Communicated with clients' probation officers to keep them updated of client attendance and participation in therapy.

• Group counseling: Facilitated and co-facilitated several different therapy groups with other clinicians. Groups included: Batterer's group for men charged with domestic violence; Intensive Out-Patient group for those working through substance abuse and the four stages of change; Co-facilitated two substance abuse drop-in groups.