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The Certified Mental Health Professional (CMHP) certification is designed to measure an individual’s
competency in performing the following job tasks. The job tasks are not presented in any particular order of importance. 1. Maintain confidentiality of
records relating to clients’ treatment.
2. Encourage clients to express their feelings, discuss what is happening in their lives, and help
them to develop insight into themselves and their relationships.
3. Guide clients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their problems.
4. Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports.
5. Counsel clients and patients, individually and in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies,
adjusting to life, and making changes.
6. Collect information about clients through interviews, observations, and tests.
7. Act as the client’s advocate in order to coordinate required services or to resolve emergency
problems in crisis situations.
8. Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge.
9. Collaborate with other staff members to perform clinical assessments and develop treatment plans.
10. Evaluate client’s physical or mental condition based on review of client information.
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Work Verification form
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Applicants Name:
Theodore V. Awad, Jr.
Applicants Title:
Crisis Counselor, Counseling Department Assistant - Director
Employer Name: Young Adult Crisis Hotline and
Counseling Center under umbrella of
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Applicants Dates of
Employment: 1/1/1996 – Present
Hours Worked per Week:
58 – 64
Average # of hours
spent per week providing direct mental health service: 45
Job Description and major
job duties:
Theodore V. Awad, Jr.
provides direct therapeutic interventions to adults, children, and families using Cognitive based Therapy. Also has a working
knowledge of Reality and Rational therapy. He is trained as
a pastoral counselor with
dual degrees helps him implement Belief therapy in conjunction with therapeutic interventions. He primarily as a Staff member
will work as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team utilizing assessment, case management and counseling skills to provide
comprehensive treatment for the
mental health needs of
mentally ill persons and those with life controlling problems. As the Assistant-Director he coordinates the Staff in multiple
treatment strategies and oversight of daily operation of the office. He consults closely with the Counseling Department Advisors
who are licensed to practice Medicine in the State of Maryland in resolving urgent situations and detoxification of addicted
individuals who are clients. He also as Staff will work in cooperation with family members and community organizations including,
but not limited to, law enforcement, hospital staff and other community providers. Clear, concise and timely documentation
of all activities is required. Staff will provide short-term
Symptoms management and
crisis counseling when indicated and authorized. Staff will conduct assessments of incarcerated individuals. He is a part
of an on-call crisis response team. He has a working knowledge of DSM IV mental disorders and has ability to perform a thorough
diagnostic assessment. His job demands strong therapeutic intervention skills. Evaluates the needs of clients, develops and
implements treatment plans to assist individuals and/or families with problems such as poor personal and family adjustment,
anti-social behavior, including areas of addiction and other life controlling problems. He specializes working with in crisis
intervention with adolescences, young adults, and there families. However has worked with all ages and has a diversity of
Clients that he works with on a regular basis. He has worked in this field for eleven years. He did his internship for pastoral
counseling in our crisis counseling department and remained working with the Young Adult Crisis Hotline and Counseling Center
that are an Affiliate
with TOPEC (Total Personal Care Missions International, Inc.) an Internationally recognized nonprofit that is registered in
New Jersey as a 501(c) 3 with the Internal Revenue service with corporation number 0100490873 also licensed to operate in
Maryland as the Young Adult Crisis Hotline and Counseling Center.
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an Affiliate Young Adult Crisis Hotline and Counseling Center
Work Verification form
Attachment
Applicants Name: Theodore V. Awad, Jr.
Applicants Title: Crisis Counselor, Counseling Department Assistant - Director
EXAMPLES
OF TASKS
- Develops and implements treatment plans to help clients mobilize inner capacities and resources to improve social
functioning.
- Conducts individual, family, or group therapy sessions in accordance with the established treatment
plan and provides crisis intervention if necessary.
- Prepare psychological or mental health assessments by obtaining background information such as
physical, psychological or mental health, and social factors which contribute to the client's situation and by studying case
histories of clients/residents.
- Provides consultation, makes recommendations, gives appropriate advice, and/or facilitates decisions.
- Provides case management to include evaluating the needs of clients, developing and implementing
treatment plans, and monitoring progress.
- Acts as an expert witness. Gives testimony and /or recommendations in court cases and/or hearings.
- Maintain
strict standards of confidentiality and management of team members
KNOWLEDGE OF THE FOLLOWING
THEORY, PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES AND/OR CONTENT:
- Human behavior and performance, mental processes, psychological research, or assessment, methods, and the assessment
and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders
- Research methods, techniques, and/or sources of information
- Information and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical and mental ailments and to provide career
guidance including alternative treatments, and methods to evaluate treatment effectiveness
- Court/hearing, rules, records, procedures and protocol
- Agency and/or organizational program(s)
- Interviewing techniques
SKILLS / ABILITY TO:
- Develop individualized treatment plans
- Use non-violent crisis intervention techniques
- Assess physical, mental, social or economic needs
- Compose and produce reports, documents and related material
- Perform group and/or client therapeutic assessments
- Provide psychological assessment and counseling
- Apply social work and/or mental health assessment and counseling techniques
- Provide consultation and/or expert advice or testimony
- Speak clearly, concisely and effectively; listen to, and understand, information and ideas as presented
verbally
- Communicate information and ideas clearly, and concisely, in writing; read and understand information
presented in writing
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