Counseling and Medication

Psychiatrists are doctors who specialize in treating mental illnesses. Medication can be prescribed and monitored by any psychiatrist. Some, but not all, of their patients get counseling. Many psychiatrists specialize in certain areas or age groups, such as addiction psychiatry, military psychiatry, or pediatric and geriatric mental care.

Mental health nurse practitioners can also administer and manage medications as well as give therapy.

These professionals are also known as psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners or advanced practice psychiatric nurses.

Licensed Mental Health Professionals

The therapist’s job is to assist in the management and resolution of mental and emotional problems.

The therapist listens to the client and asks questions to better understand his or her needs, difficulties, and life situations, as well as devise solutions to assist the client to improve his or her life. The therapist will diagnose, treat, and assist clients in developing coping techniques, as well as counsel, listen, support, and track progress. The therapist works with individuals and groups, as well as assisting customers in accessing community services.

Licensed Psychological Examiner-Independent

The LPE-I conducts psychological testing in accordance with the Arkansas Psychology Board’s approval and as requested by our clinic. This will involve mental health screening tools and grading scales. As needed, this may entail administering individual IQ achievement testing. The psychological examiner will record testing activities and results in the medical records, as desired by the physician or therapist who ordered the testing. The psychological results will be explained to clients and their families as part of this function.

Qualified Behavioral Health Provider (QBHP) Service extenders are QBHPs.

The QBHP (Qualified Behavioral Health Provider) aids the client in reinforcing the skills learned or developed in therapy sessions with the MHP through review and practice.

To contribute to the treatment team, QBHPs acquire information about the client via collateral association with the client. The interventions of the QBHP for each client are documented on the client’s treatment plan as well as in the “plan” of the MHP’s progress notes. Observations are routinely reported between the MHP and the QBHP and are documented in the client’s medical record.

Details and specifications are discussed and documented in the client’s chart on a regular basis between MHP and QBHP.