As a Community Services psychologist, I have found the constant challenge and exposure to complex cases immensely satisfying.
Not exact matches
(iii) Each school district shall establish a comprehensive developmental school counseling / guidance program advisory council to be comprised of representative stakeholders (such
as parents, members of the board of education, school building and / or district leaders,
community - based
service providers, teachers, certified school counselors and other pupil personnel
service providers in the district including school social workers and / or school
psychologists).
Adequate staffing (such
as counselors, psychiatrists,
psychologists, and social workers) of coordinated school - and
community - based mental health
services for individuals with risk factors for violence, recognizing that violence is not intrinsically a product of mental illness;
This program would provide support for former students in terms of mental and emotional health, with the
services provided by Elders and Aboriginal
community health workers
as well
as psychologists and social workers.
The American Psychological Association (APA) describes the role of
psychologists as including the following: assessment, diagnosis, collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, creating / monitoring programs of treatment, offering therapy, rehabilitation of clients into
community, developing programs for behavioral and mental health
services, consulting with other professionals and staff, and conducting evidence - based research.
In addition to making recommendations on custody and visitation arrangements, child custody mediators may refer clients to family counselors, child
psychologists and
community services, such
as public housing programs and reduced - price clinics.
Vilma Reyes, Psy.D, is a licensed clinical
psychologist who provides treatment, training, clinical supervision
as well
as coordination to
community - based mental health outreach
services and evaluation at UCSF, Department of Psychiatry in the Child Trauma Research Program.
Prior to university teaching he devoted over twenty years
as a
psychologist in
Community Mental Health
Services in San Francisco working with a diverse range of people with many different psychological problems.