Child Therapist

Follow up on results of counseling programs and clients' adjustments to determine effectiveness of programs.

Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants.

Provide family counseling and treatment services to inmates participating in substance abuse programs.

Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.

Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.

Provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.

Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.

Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities.

Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary.

Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.

Gather information from doctors, schools, social workers, juvenile counselors, law enforcement personnel, and others to make recommendations to courts for resolution of child custody or visitation disputes.

Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.

Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal, financial, and other personal issues.

Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.

Collect information about clients, using techniques such as testing, interviewing, discussion, or observation.