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chief psychologist
A professional who plans psychological service programs and directs, coordinates, and participates in activities of personnel engaged in providing psychological services to clients in psychiatric center or hospital. Responsibilities include:
- Reviews reports, case management reviews, and psychiatric center's or hospital's procedural manual to assess need for psychological services.
- Plans psychological treatment programs that meet standards of accreditation.
- Plans utilization of available staff, assigns staff to treatment units, and recruits professional and nonprofessional psychological staff.
- Develops, directs, and participates in training programs.
- Directs testing and evaluation of new admissions and re-evaluation of present clients.
- Participates in staff conferences to evaluate and plan treatment programs.
- Interviews clients that present difficult and complex diagnostic problems and assesses their psychological status.
- Reviews management of cases, assignments, case problems, issues, and methods of treatment.
- Works with community agencies to develop effective corrective programs and to arrange to provide psychological services.
- Plans and supervises psychological research.
- Collaborates with psychiatrists and other professional staff to help develop comprehensive program of therapy, evaluation, and treatment.
- Μέρος του λόγου: noun
- Κλάδος/Τομέας: Professional careers
- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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Δημιουργός
- Jason F
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(United States of America)