| Duties and Responsibilities |
1. Provides high quality counseling and psychological services for Loyola students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
- Provides triage, initial visit intakes, group counseling and brief individual psychological counseling focused on student success.
- Maintains clinical records and necessary statistics of psychotherapeutic and other client contacts in compliance with legal and ethical standards and best practices.
- Consults with psychiatrists in conjunction with prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medication for psychotherapy patients.
- Consults with parents, physicians, faculty, deans, Residence Life Staff, off-campus counseling services, other campus offices and students, when appropriate, in order to provide quality care to students.
- Makes referrals to off-campus therapists, clinics, and hospitals, when appropriate.
2. Provides crisis management services, including after-hours coverage as needed.
- Provides walk-in crisis and risk assessment, urgent and emergent counseling services.
- Develops safety plans and facilitates psychiatric hospitalizations as necessary.
- Supervises trainees with clinical crises and urgent care situations.
- Provides after-hours, weekend and holiday coverage 24/7 on a rotating basis with other Wellness Center staff members.
3. Supervises unlicensed student therapists as part of training program.
- Supervises, designs and participates in training experiences for masters and/or doctoral level graduate trainees in accord with high standards of care and academic program learning outcomes
- Provides case management oversight and consultation to trainees, as assigned.
- Organizes, leads and/or contributes to training seminars for graduate level interns and externs.
4. Provides outreach and consultation to students, faculty, staff and parents.
- Conducts outreach and other student learning programs, as requested, orientation sessions for new students and emergency and postvention support to the campus community, as needed.
- Conducts organized mental health awareness campaigns such as National Depression Screening Day, Eating Disorders Awareness Day as assigned by Director of Counseling
- Develops and implements trainings on mental health awareness for Residence Life professional and student staff.
- Participates in campus-based mental health initiatives organized by Wellness Center such as suicide prevention programs.
- Stays current on relevant research and best practices regarding psychological services to the college student population.
- Develops psychoeducational programming to address campus mental health and climate issues.
5. Participates in regular Wellness Center staff meetings, case conferences, and in-service/professional development training.
- May serves on Wellness Center and/or Student Development and university committees by request or as appointed by the Director of the Wellness Center or the Director of Counseling.
- Develops didactic and psychoeducational presentations to groups inside and outside of the Wellness Center
- Organizes and presents in team meetings and clinical case conferences to Wellness Center staff members based on areas of specialty and clinical expertise.
- May provide administrative coordination of the groups program or outreach and liaison activities as assigned by the Director of Counseling
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