Pathways ’s Outpatient Treatment program provides services that include, but are not limited to, individual, group, and family education and counseling. This program offers comprehensive, coordinated, and defined services that vary in level of intensity. Outpatient services address a variety of needs such as situational stressors, family relations, interpersonal relationships, mental health issues, life span issues, psychiatric illnesses, addictions, and the needs of victims of abuse and/or trauma. The Outpatient Treatment program works jointly with the persons served to maximize their functioning and manage the symptoms of their current situation. The program is designed to enhance the strengths of the individual through recognized treatment interventions.

The responsibilities for the Counselor position include but are not limited to the following:

□ Under general supervision learns to perform psychosocial assessments, treatment planning/monitoring, and discharge planning

□ Provides counseling/therapy to clients requiring complex intervention

□ Performs commitment determinations and/or executes orders of involuntary commitments

□ Provide persons, families, or vulnerable populations with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses, physical or developmental disabilities

□ Provides client education and counseling, advises caregivers, and makes necessary referrals for other social services

□ Acts as client advocate in order to coordinate required services or to resolve crisis

□ Facilitates individual and group therapy sessions to help clients overcome dependencies, recover from illness, and adjust to life

□ Monitors, euates, and records client progress according to measurable goals described in treatment and care plan

□ Refers client or family to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness and to provide access to services such as financial assistance, legal aid, housing, job placement or education

□ Organizes support groups and/or counsels family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting the client

□ Identify any environmental impediments to client progress through interviews and review of patient records

□ Provides training to direct care staff in implementing behavior modification techniques and treatment plans