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Meet
Ms. Betsy
Credentials
Mackay
Hall at the University of Nevada, Reno, from which Ms. Betsy
received here Master's degree. |
Education:
- Master of Social
Work, 1991-1993. University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
- B.A., Psychology,
1980-1984. University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Licensure:
- 2002 L.C.S.W. Licensed
Clinical Social Worker, North Carolina
- 1996 L.C.S.W. Licensed
Clinical Social Worker, Nevada
- 1993 L.S.W. Licensed
Social Worker, Nevada
Experience:
Baker Clinical
Services, P.A.
Raleigh, North Carolina. January 2006 - present.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Conducting assessment,
diagnosis, and treatment for children, adolescents, and adults.
- Providing bi-weekly
Adolescent Group for youth with emotional and behavioral problems
- Providing court
appearances; collaboration with school personnel and other community
resources; and ongoing consultation with primary care physicians
and psychiatrists.
- Providing consultations
with attorneys in preparation for court cases.
Triangle Kids,
Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina. 2002-2005.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Provided outpatient
psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, adults and
their families, with the majority of the clinical caseload consisting
of children and adolescents (ages 3-18 years).
- Provided bi-weekly
Adolescent group for youth with emotional and behavioral problems.
- Maintained clinical
case records, collaboration with school personnel and other
community resources, court appearances and ongoing consultation
with primary care physicians and psychiatrists.
Children's Behavioral
Services
Reno, Nevada. 1998-2002.
Clinical Social Worker II
- Provided mental
health services to seriously emotionally disturbed children
and adolescents, ages six through seventeen, and their families
in an outpatient setting. Services included comprehensive biopsychosocial
assessments and providing individual, family, couple and group
psychotherapy, parent training, and an ongoing consultation
with the staff child psychiatrist.
- Collaborated intensively
with residential treatment programs and the local inpatient
facility ensuring continuity of care.
- Ongoing consultation
with entities within the division of Child and Family Services
as well as the local county, community agencies and school district
providing extensive case management and comprehensive client
care.
- Provided emergency
evaluations for children and adolescents who posed a danger
to themselves, others or the community and facilitate immediate
placement where appropriate.
- Maintained clinical
case records, court appearances and the training and supervision
of MSW Student Interns.
Early Childhood
Mental Health Services
Reno, Nevada. 1994-1998.
Mental Health Counselor II
- Provided intensive
family centered, child focused clinical assessments and intervention
services in-home to children ages' birth to six, who were at
risk for abuse/neglect and their families.
- Provided psychotherapy
services to individuals (adults and children), families, couples,
groups, and ongoing evaluations of client crises.
- Coordinated intervention
services in collaboration with community resources, court appearances,
maintaining clinical case records, program development and the
training and supervision of MSW student interns. Position required
highly specialized clinical skills to engage involuntary families.
Division of Child
and Family Services
Reno, Nevada. 1993-1994.
Clinical Social Worker, Intern
- Provided clinical
interventions and services to children/adolescents who were
placed in residential treatment settings, foster homes or with
natural parents. Treatment services required intensive home-based
interventions involving reunification cases, individuals, couples,
group or family psychotherapy (with foster, adoptive or natural
parents) and co-therapy sessions with outpatient residential
therapists working with clients.
- Extensive case
management services, court appearances and providing continuity
of care for clients.
Douglas Mental
Health Clinic
Minden, Nevada. 1992-1993.
MSW Student Intern
- Provided individual,
couple, group and family outpatient therapy using a full range
of diagnostic treatment and consultative mental health services
to persons of all ages.
- Weekly clinical
supervision
- Weekly consultations
with staff psychiatrist
- Exercised therapeutic
and case management skills with the special ability to respond
to a wide range of clients needs.
Children's Resources
Bureau
Reno, Nevada. 1992
MSW Student Intern
- Worked with a
multidisciplinary team in providing comprehensive diagnostic
assessments of children potentially coming into state care and
recommending a level of care needed.
- Interviewed the
children, their families and other individuals involved with
the youths and preparing appropriate chronologies, psychosocial
and case reports.
- Participated in
psychological testing sessions.
- Gained court experience.
Honors
- Organizational Award,
Kristine Nagy-Johnson Award, Project Crisis, 1995
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