- Provide screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of depressive and anxiety-related disorders, as well as other mental health symptoms, with an emphasis on the application of time-limited, evidence-based treatment approaches to include Motivational Interviewing/Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders
- Conduct diagnostic interview and comprehensive psychological assessment, to include personality, intellectual, cognitive, and emotional functioning
- Assess and provide treatments for sub-clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety, adjustment difficulties, and excessive use or misuse of alcohol or other drugs.
- Provide psychological prevention services to patients at significant risk for psychological problems.
- Provide individual and group interventions to support patients' mental health needs.
- Provide clinical services through the use of telemental health technology.
- Promote communication/interactions between medical team members, patients, and their families to facilitate the medical treatment process.
- Provides counseling assistance and serves as a resource person for the medical center's Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Provide screening for cognitive deficits to address specific functional questions or to determine if a referral for a complete neuropsychological evaluation or dementia assessment is needed.
- Facilitate transition of Veterans to higher level of SUD care as indicated during assessment
- Provide support to Veterans received medications for substance use
- Provide psychoeducational and supportive interventions in conjunction with the veteran for spouses, family members/caregivers, and others who are members of Veterans support system
- Connect Veterans to community support programs for substance use
Staff Psychologist - Salem, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs
Description
Summary
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
Duties
**Recruitment/Relocation Incentive of up to $15,000 may be available to highly qualified applicants with a 3 year service agreement.**
This position is assigned to the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Program. The SUD program offers a continuum of evidence-based, interdisciplinary services to Veterans with substance use disorders. Treatment focuses on identification of factors that elicit and reinforce substance misuse and addiction, on methods of altering and coping with these factors, and on alleviation of problems that have resulted from substance use disorders. Research indicates that skill and motivation deficits are problematic for this population and can contribute to the maintenance of substance use disorders.
Staff psychologists at this level diagnose mental disorders, conduct psychological or neuropsychological assessments, treat mental disorders through a variety of modalities, provide adjunctive interventions for treatment of medical disorders, and may conduct research.
The following specific clinical duties will be provided by the SUD psychologist:
Telework: Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized to highly qualified candidates with a 3 year service agreement.
EDRP Authorized: Contact Christopher Cullen, , the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required