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Charter Oak Psychiatric Hospital, Covina, CA. Staff/Psychological Assistant on the adolescent locked and open units. Duties included in the position were charting patient’s progress and administering the therapeutic milieu of the Charter Hospitals.
Practicum Site, The Sycamores, Altadena, CA. Student clinician in two of the cottages. Duties included weekly staff meetings, treatment planning, conducting individual and group therapy, and the administration of psychodiagnostic testing.
Practicum Site, Glendora Counseling Center, Glendora, CA. Student clinician in two elementary schools in the Glendora School District. Duties include initial intake interviews, individual treatment planning, establishing behavioral therapy groups, and short-term behavioral individual therapy with children.
Glendora Unified School District, Glendora Counseling Center, Glendora, CA. Head clinician in charge of designing, implementing, directing, and providing psychological services to all of the middle schools in the district. Duties include general program administration, teacher consults, parent consults, intake interviews, individual and group treatment planning, short-term behavioral therapy, problem/insight oriented peer group therapy, and program evaluation.
Psychology Clerk, Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Psychodiagnostic examiner for the child and adolescent inpatient wards. Duties include conducting intake interviews, assessment histories, and psychodiagnostic testing to aid in diagnosis and therapeutic interventions.
Redtab 3, Fontana, CA. Founder of the company developing relational database applications, and providing consultation to clients requiring advanced knowledge of research design, statistics, data analyses, and presentation graphics for independent projects. Current applications are being developed on MSJet4.0 engine and are scalable and portable for t-SQL client-server infrastructures. The scope of statistical consultative work on client projects range from simple correlational studies and exploratory quasi-experimental designs to factor analysis, MRC, and content analysis.
Glendora Counseling Center, Glendora, CA. Registered Psychological Assistant to Dr. Thomas J. Malcolm. Duties include providing outpatient psychological services to a diverse population in the community. These services are primarily to children, adolescents, families, and couples seeking psychological assistance.
Baldwin Park Unified School District, Glendora Counseling Center, Baldwin Park, CA. Head clinician in charge of designing, implementing, directing, and providing psychological services to 2 middle schools in the district. Duties include general program administration, teacher consults, parent consults, intake interviews, individual and group treatment planning, short-term behavioral therapy, problem/insight oriented peer group therapy, and program evaluation.
Life Center Christian School, Glendora Counseling Center, Pomona, CA. Head clinician in charge of designing, implementing, directing, and providing psychological services to a K-8 private Christian school. Duties include general program administration, teacher consults, parent consults, intake interviews, psychodiagnostic/psychoeducational testing, remediation planning, interdisciplinary liaison, individual and group treatment planning, and program evaluation.
First Family Church Counseling Center, Glendora Counseling Center, Whittier, CA. Staff Therapist in the counseling center. Duties include providing low cost outpatient psychological services to a diverse population in the community. These services are primarily to children, adolescents, families, and couples, largely from low-income areas seeking psychological assistance.
Loma Linda University - Behavioral Medicine Center, Child & Family Psychiatry, Loma Linda, CA Predoctoral Psychology Extern. Duties include providing psychodiagnostic assessment and intake interviewing of children, adolescents, and their families referred to LLU-BMC for triage and referral services. Input regarding recommendations and observations into a multidisciplinary team of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Social Workers who had concurrently evaluated other family members was an integral component.
Olive Crest Treatment Centers, Redlands, CA. Case Manager for a 10-bed forensic residential treatment facility for male adolescent sexual perpetrators. Duties include providing 2 hours individual treatment per week for each resident, 2 hours peer group process psychotherapy per week, 1 hour perpetration group per week, 1 hour group process psychotherapy bi-weekly, school/community liaison, interdisciplinary treatment team interface, establishment of individual treatment goals, evaluation of treatment goals and progress, and coordinating external servicing (e.g. County Social Worker, County Probation Officer, Attorneys, etc.). In addition, supervision of 9 Child Care Workers and 1 House Manager, staff development, treatment team review, staff inservicing, and general house supervision was included.
Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA. Adjunct faculty for the Undergraduate Department of Psychology in the School of Education and Behavioral Sciences. Courses taught include Abnormal Psychology, Applied Statistics, History of Psychology, Human Growth and Development, Personal and Social Adjustment, and Psychology of Religion. Duties include establishing course goals, criterion for evaluation, lesson plans, and lectures. Syllabi will be provided upon request.
Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA. Adjunct faculty for the Graduate Department of Education, Masters degree in Education Credentialing Program in the School of Education and Behavioral Sciences. Course taught is Educational Research and Statistics. Duties include establishing course goals, criterion for evaluation, lesson plans, and lectures. Syllabus will be provided upon request.
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health - San Bernardino, CA. Psychologist Intern for the county mental health system. Duties included a broad range of supervised clinical experiences including provision of outpatient psychological treatment to severe, chronic mentally disabled individuals in the community from an interdisciplinary psychosocial rehabilitation approach. Rotations included were outpatient, inpatient, day treatment, research, and consultative settings. Specific tasks included initial intakes, screenings, social histories, diagnosis, psychological testing, triage, crisis intervention, individual/group/day treatment/family/relational psychotherapy for adult/adolescent/child populations, charting, treatment planning, interdisciplinary case review, medication consults, case management, individual/group/counter-transference group supervision, grant writing, and program evaluation process/outcome research.
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health - San Bernardino, CA. Clinical Therapist I –Pre/Licensed Clinical Psychologist - Partial Hospitalization Program Coordinator for the New Day/Mesa Counseling Center. Primary duties include PHP administration, therapeutic milieu development and implementation, staff supervision/coordination, practicum student supervision and training, direct clinical treatment, treatment planning, interdisciplinary case review, charting, medication consults with staff psychiatrists, and case management for chronic mentally disabled individuals in the community from a multidisciplinary psychosocial rehabilitation approach. Other specific tasks included general outpatient initial intakes, screenings, social histories, diagnosis, psychological testing, triage, crisis intervention, individual/group/day treatment/family/relational psychotherapy for adult/adolescent/child/family populations, coordination of treatment, charting, treatment planning, interdisciplinary case review, medication consults, case management, grant writing, and program evaluation process/outcome research.
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health - San Bernardino, CA. Clinical Therapist II -Licensed Clinical Psychologist – Mesa Counseling. Primary duties include primary back-up for Clinic Supervisors, supervision of clinic staff and general oversight of clinic functioning, plan-coordinate-evaluate work of supervisees, administer disciplinary actions, participate in hiring new employees, programmatic/therapeutic development and implementation of Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill Treatment Team, participate in regional team planning, monitor/review compliance with contract agencies per county guidelines and Medi-Cal regulations, general staff coordination, predoctoral intern/practicum student supervision and training, direct clinical treatment, treatment planning, interdisciplinary case review, evaluation and determination of involuntary holds on clinic client population, charting, medication consults with staff psychiatrists, and case management for chronic mentally disabled individuals in the community from a multidisciplinary psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery model approach. Other specific tasks included numerous task force committee meetings, general outpatient initial intakes, screenings, social histories, diagnosis, psychological testing, triage, crisis intervention, individual/group treatment/family/relational psychotherapy for adult/adolescent/child/family populations, coordination of treatment, charting, treatment planning, interdisciplinary case review, and program evaluation process/outcome research.
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health - San Bernardino, CA. Clinic Supervisor - Licensed Clinical Psychologist – Victor Valley Behavioral Health. Co-Clinic Supervisor at one of the largest outpatient clinics in the SBC-DBH system. Our regional catchment spanned over 18,000 square miles of rural, suburban and urban environments in the Mojave Dessert. Active clinic caseload was 2200+ behavioral health clients with an additional 400+ drug and alcohol clients. Responsibilities included supervision of 37 clinic staff and general oversight of clinic functioning, plan-coordinate-evaluate work of employees, administer disciplinary actions, participate in hiring new employees, programmatic/therapeutic development and implementation of all DBH target populations programs, participate in regional team planning and implementation, monitor/review compliance with contract agencies per county guidelines and Medi-Cal regulations, general staff coordination, predoctoral intern/practicum student supervision and training, direct clinical treatment, treatment planning, interdisciplinary case review, evaluation and determination of involuntary holds on clinic client population, charting, medication consults with staff psychiatrists, and case management for chronic mentally disabled individuals in the community from a multidisciplinary psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery model approach. Other specific tasks included numerous task force committee meetings (listed separately below), general outpatient initial intakes, screenings, social histories, diagnosis, psychological testing, triage, crisis intervention, individual/group treatment/family/relational psychotherapy for adult/adolescent/child/family populations, coordination of treatment, charting, treatment planning, interdisciplinary case review, and program evaluation process/outcome research.
Saint Joseph’s University – Philadelphia, PA Adjunct faculty for the Undergraduate Department of Psychology. Courses taught include Behavior Modification, Cognitive Neuroscience, Counseling Psychology, and Personality. Duties include establishing course goals, criterion for evaluation, lesson plans, and lectures. Syllabi will be provided upon request.
Rider University – Lawrenceville, NJ Adjunct faculty for the Undergraduate Department of Psychology. Courses taught include Abnormal Psychology and Internship in Psychology. Duties include establishing course goals, criterion for evaluation, lesson plans, and lectures. Of note, Internship in Psychology included coordination of sites, interface with site supervisors, establishing training goals, monitoring site compliance/student progress, bi-weekly supervision meetings, site development for future site placement in the mental health community of the greater Trenton area, and general administrative coordination for all undergraduate Psychology interns. Syllabi will be provided upon request.
Ivyland Counseling Center – Ivyland, PA Founder and CEO of an outpatient counseling center. Duties include providing general outpatient psychological services to a diverse population in the community. These services are primarily to children, adolescents, families, and couples seeking psychological assistance. |
