Work Record (Continued):

Chief Psychologist and Coordinator of Emergency Services, Shore Mental Health Center,

Lakewood, New Jersey (8/85-4/87)  SMHC  served all clients, children and adults

Job responsibilities included:

  Supervising outpatient therapists, emergency service counselors, crisis workers,

unlicensed psychology staff, and student interns

  Conducting and supervising psychological evaluations including neuropsychological

screenings for clients referred by staff of the Center

  Coordinating the emergency services program with all relevant community and state

agencies (including private and state psychiatric hospitals)

  Providing consultation and education to all program elements and staff of the  

Center, community agencies, police, hospital emergency room staff,

  families,

and

others

  Screening clients for voluntary and involuntary hospitalization (also supervising staff

that are providing these services).  Offering in-service training to staff on

  various

topics

  Providing psychotherapy to clients and ongoing crisis counseling

  Developing, coordinating, facilitating and supervising new programs at the Center

  Reviewing and developing new contracts and grants for the Center

  Providing quarterly reports (statistics) on all activities of emergency services  

department to the Executive director of the Center

  Serving on the quality assurance/utilization review committee, the clinical chief's

committee, and the coordinator's committee

  Supervising and providing psychological services to inmates of the Ocean County

 Jail

  Supervising psychological evaluations for the Division of Youth and Family Services

of Ocean County under a contract with Shore Mental Health Center

  Providing psychological employment screenings for the Probation, Correction and  

Sheriff's Departments of Ocean County

  Writing clinical policy and procedures

Principal Clinical Psychologist, Admissions Unit, Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, Marlboro,

New Jersey (9/84-8/85)

Job responsibilities included:

  Serving as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team

  Screening admissions to the hospital for appropriateness

  Conducting complete psychological evaluations, including neuropsychological  

screening, DSM-III diagnoses and treatment recommendations

  Providing individual, group and family psychotherapy

  Serving as a neuropsychological consultant for staff

  Supervising unlicensed clinical psychologists and psychology interns

  Offering new employees group therapy

  Providing in-services and case conferences for staff

  Assisting the Admissions Unit Coordinator in the development of new programs

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