Scott Hookey
Summary
Forged in overcoming adversity serves as a motivator to help others help themselves through balancing evidenced based interventions with a person centered approach to assist moving individuals through the stages of change to meet their full desired capacity.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Therapist, Suicide Prevention
Stop Soldier Suicide
04.2022 - 09.2024
- Completed intake risk assessments through CASE Approach, CAMS Suicide Status Form, and BCBT-SP with over 1,500 clients in a telehealth setting including risk leval determination guided by Strong Star's MIRREC and proprietary risk stratification.
- Conducted crisis intervention and deescalation techniques with active duty military and veterans ranging from various stages of crisis during assessment and intervention in a telehealth setting using somatic informed polyvagal, mindfulness, and relaxation techniques during assessment and intervention.
- Collaborated trauma and polymorbid informed treatment plans through CAMS and BCBT-SP for hundreds of clients in a telehealth setting.
- Completed CAMS and BCBT-SP modality with hundreds of clients utilizing eclectic interventions including polyvagal, CBT, Dynamic, Solution Focused/Problem solving modalities.
- Completed timely documentation, calendaring, and communication through Salesforce EMR, Calendly, Slack, Google, and Microsoft Office including managing shared Excel spreadsheets.
Therapist
Avolonia Group Homes; Hampton PRTF
05.2017 - 04.2021
- Completed clinical social work process from assessment, treatment planning, intervention through closing with over 200 acute minors requiring long term secured residential treatment due to behavioral, mood, and trauma comorbid presentations.
- Facilitated interdisciplinary team meetings including internal and external clinica, psychiatric, medical staff and legal stakeholders including social service caseworkers, Juvenile Justice, DHS, LME/MCO insurance providers, and Guardian ad Litem, and guardians.
- Completed trauma informed individual, group, and family therapy utilizing TF-CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and systems based interventions to meet client's needs.
- Coordinated step-down services and discharge planning including referral process to lower level of care or family reunification.
Infantry Machine Gunner
United States Marine Corps
06.2005 - 06.2009
- Wounded during a combat deployment and sent back to the United States, lost several friends during combat operations, which drove social work career.
- Completed second combat deployment.
Education
Master of Arts - Social Work
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05-2016
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA05-2014
Skills
- Empathetic and resourceful
- Practical and down to earth
- Experienced and calm during crisis intervention
- Holistic and integrative biopsycsocial clinical approach
- Skilled in utilizing CAMS, BCBT-SP, CASE Approach in assessing and treating suicidal ideations
- Oriented toward massaging stages of change and grief while balancing trauma focused, polyvagal, cognitive behavioral, solution focused problem solving interventions to ameliorate the spectrum of mental health diagnoses
Certification
California: LCSW
South Carolina: LISW-CP
Timeline
Therapist, Suicide Prevention
Stop Soldier Suicide
04.2022 - 09.2024
Therapist
Avolonia Group Homes; Hampton PRTF
05.2017 - 04.2021
Infantry Machine Gunner
United States Marine Corps
06.2005 - 06.2009
Master of Arts - Social Work
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
California State University, Fullerton
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