SOCIAL WORKER AND COUNSELOR POSITIONS:

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The Corrections Qualified Mental Health Professional functions as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team providing a range of professional treatment services to mentally ill and/or mentally disabled prisoners within the Michigan Department of Corrections.  They work with hospitalized, medically ill and other special populations.  The Corrections Qualified Mental Health Professional is responsible for all aspects of the mental health evaluation, referral to the appropriate mental health level of care and treatment of the prisoners, monitoring their progress and ensuring continuity of care is not jeopardized.  The Corrections Qualified Mental Health Professional provides a full range of psychosocial assessments and evaluations, interventions, consultations and referral services as assigned by the supervisor.  They assist with placement and obtaining services when the prisoner discharges to the community.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge of mental health counseling, individual and group therapy and psycho educational treatments.
Knowledge of mental health assessments and interpretation of such assessments based on scope of license and training.
Knowledge of crisis evaluation and intervention.  Knowledge of treatment plan development and implementation.
Knowledge of human, emotional, social, psychological and environmental problems and techniques to alleviate them.
Knowledge of comorbid substance abuse and mental illness diagnosis and treatment.
Knowledge of the techniques for observing and assessing behavior.
Knowledge of the basic mental health professional discipline, principles, and practice.
Knowledge of the characteristics and aspects of mental and emotional disturbances and developmental disability.
Knowledge of human emotional, social, psychological, and environmental problems and the techniques applicable to their alleviation within scope of practice.  Knowledge and awareness of patient rights.
Ability to work with other professional disciplines.  Ability to make independent clinical judgments.
Ability to communicate effectively with others, including the ability to organize, evaluate and present information effectively, both verbally and in writing, and to speak before groups, including providing testimony in court and administrative hearings.
Ability to develop a therapeutic relationship with patients.  Ability to apply treatment methods within the scope of the discipline practiced.  Ability to maintain records, and prepare reports and correspondence related to the work.