Melissa Weber

Working with a travel staffing agency as a travel Social Worker.

First contract was on a Psychiatric Unit where I performed the following tasks:

• Formulated treatment plan strategies with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive and continuous care plan.
• Helped clients develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
• Delivered comprehensive therapeutic service to adults and geriatric patients to support discharge plans and if needed placements.

• Interviewed clients, families or groups to assess situations, limitations and issues and implement services to address needs.
• Formulated treatment plan strategies with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive and continuous care plan.
• Helped clients develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
• Maintained record of daily individual activities, behaviors and pertinent incidents for patient analysis and assessment.
• Developed and facilitated goal-oriented psycho-education and therapy groups to improve residents' quality of life.
• Recommended long-term residential treatment, short-term residential treatment and individualized and group drug counseling for clients with substance abuse issues.

• Worked with medical teams, patients and families to implement effective treatment plans.
• Coordinated individualized discharge plans to manage safe transition back into community and home environments.
• Coordinated program referrals for community-based resources.
• Formulated treatment plan strategies with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive and continuous care plan.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.

• Developed and implemented intensive individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior and other psychosocial issues.
• Guided clients in development of skills and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.
• Tracked progress according to goals for interventions.
• Documented patient information, treatment plans and patient responses.
• Provided tools for clients and families to communicate better and negotiate issues for improved family relationships.
• Worked with interdisciplinary treatment team to develop treatment plans.
• Completed full psychosocial assessments to determine best courses of actions.

I started at Our Lady of Peace as a mental health technician while I was going to school.

I ended as an Intake Clinician.

• Displayed sensitivity to cultural and linguistic needs of clients and families served.
• Met with clients and conducted assessments to evaluate for appropriate level of care.
• Discussed clients with MD to determine appropriate level of care.

• Counseled individuals, groups and families to bring awareness of problems, deal with crisis situations and develop action plans.
• Developed and implemented intensive individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior and other psychosocial issues.
• Guided clients in development of skills and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.
• Tracked progress according to goals for interventions.
• Documented patient information, treatment plans and patient responses.
• Provided tools for clients and families to communicate better and negotiate issues for improved family relationships.