Assist in providing client services in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, or social work, including support for families. They assist clients in identifying and obtaining available benefits and social and community services. They assist in programs to prevent and resolve problems with substance abuse, human relationships, rehabilitation, or dependent care.
Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. They make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.
Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. They collect and analyze data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments.
Assess and treat individuals with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and/or other drugs. Their activities may include individual and group therapy, crisis intervention, case management, client advocacy, prevention, and education.
Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. They advise family care givers, provide patient education and counseling. They provide care and case management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.
Provide social services and assistance to improve the social, psychological and academic functioning of children. They maximize the family's well being. They assist parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. They address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy.
Counsel individuals to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with personal, social, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, or the stress of daily life. They coordinate activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. They create programs for counseling, training, and job placement.
Counsel with emphasis on prevention. They work with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health. They help individuals deal with issues associated with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; stress management; self esteem; and aging.
Diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral, within the context of marriage and family systems. They apply psychotherapeutic and family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of services to individuals, couples, and families for the purpose of treating such diagnosed nervous and mental disorders.
Counsel individuals and provide group educational and vocational guidance services.
