Work Record (Continued):

Acting Director of Psychology, Psychology Department, Weston (State) Hospital, Weston,

West Virginia (6/84-8/84)

Job responsibilities included:

  Supervising a fourteen member psychology department

  Serving on the Hospital's Administrative Council

  Planning, directing, and coordinating hospital-wide psychological programs

  Maintaining a quality assurance program in psychology

  Interviewing and making recommendations for hiring of new staff

  Providing timely evaluations for the promotion of staff

  Coordinating services between Unit Directors and psychology staff on MR/DD,  

geriatric, forensic, admissions and adult psychiatric units

  Providing monthly progress reports to the Clinical Director

  Chairing departmental meetings

  Coordinating activities of the psychology consultants

  Serving on the Administrative Complaint Committee

  Coordinating the psychology intern program

  Lecturing on the role of psychology to students of other disciplines (nursing and

 psychiatry)

  Consulting with staff on difficult cases

  Maintaining ethical, professional, and legal standards of the department

Psychologist, Admissions Unit and a Geographic Unit, Weston (State) Hospital of the West

Virginia Department of Health (1/82-5/84)

Job responsibilities included:

  Serving as Psychologist on the Admissions Unit and as a member of the  

 interdisciplinary

treatment

team

  Conducting complete psychological evaluations including neuropsychological  

assessments, DSM-III diagnoses, and treatment recommendations for  

 new

and

re-admissions

  Acting as case manager for selected residents

  Providing group and individual psychotherapy

  Screening and testing residents from other units of the Hospital that were referred

and selected for the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery

  Administering the Ward Self Government Program and writing special programs

  Providing consultation services to staff

  Supervising psychology graduate students and several psychology assistants

  Providing in-services for psychology assistants, medical students, residents and

 others

  Conducting tours of the Admissions Unit for community workers

  Evaluating residents on other hospital units and testifying as necessary for civil  

commitment and other court proceedings

  Evaluating residents for social security benefits

  Evaluating residents on other hospital units to determine their competence to  

 consent

to

medications

  Evaluating and presenting problem cases at the Hospital's Multiaxial Staffings

  Serving on the Employee Management Advisory Committee, The Human Rights

Committee and the Peer Review Committee

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