Glenda Benitez

Personal Information

Status: Australian Citizen

Address: *** ******* / ** ******** *****

Wentworth Point. NSW, 2127.

Phone: 04 5006 5564.

Email: acuygz@r.postjobfree.com

Driver L.: 20276408

Career Overview

A committed and responsible professional in the area of mental health with a bachelor and master degree as a Clinical Psychologist from Venezuela Central University from 2004. Also, I am full member of Australian Psychological Society (MAPS) under registration number 169606.

As a health professional, I have more than ten years of experience conducting assessment, providing counselling, psychotherapy, casework and psychoeducation to children and adults with vulnerabilities including physical and mental health issues. My duties includes mental health assessments, behavioural and emotional support, case management, developing and implementing intervention plans linked with the area, support clients in crisis, .

In addition, referral services to clients and writing clients reports and data on time are part of my duties to ensure better attention, safety and wellbeing to clients.

Qualifications

-Master of Clinical Psychology (2001 – 2004). Military Hospital “Dr. Carlos Arvelo”. Venezuela. Master dictated by the school of medicine at the Venezuela Central University. Research on “Neuropsychological assessment to people with post-traumatic stress disorder”.

-Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) 1995 - 2000. Venezuela Central University. Research on “Neuropsychological assessment of teenagers with diagnosis of schizophrenia”.

Strengths Skills

Ability to manage behaviour within the highest level of ethics, policies and rules into work place.

Ability to work with practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds.

Highly tunned communication skills and understanding people from different cultures, social backgrounds, language and life styles. (CALD)

Listening skills and empathy with children, adolescents and adults.

Ability to manage assessments and provide counselling within Client Centred Approach, Strength Based Case Management.

Ability to provide professional assistance to people in crisis.

Ability to make research in health area.

Writing reports, referrals and others as require including legal instances.

Computer literacy.

Employment History

2015 MULTICULTURAL AGE CARE. SYDNEY-AUSTRALIA

www.multiculturalagecare.com.au

Position Titule: Bilingual Support Staff

Role resposibilities:

Home visiting service to families experiencing a variety of physical and mental health issues to provide assistance at home and social support.

Communicating with the team work to report the health condition of clients, requirements, unusual situations, emergencies among others at any time.

Active participation in meetings and communication with co-ordinators, supervisors and cases manager at any time.

Writing reports, risk assessments and others.

Working with clients’ within CALD.

Mental health assessments to clients to improve case health plan.

Risk assessments about mental health, behaviour, environment among others at any time to improve case plans.

To find deadlines on time to improve service to client every time.

2014 BELMORE COMMUNITY CARE. SYDNEY-AUSTRALIA

www.jwhealth.com.au

Position Title: Community Support Worker

Role Responsibilities:

Home visiting service to families experiencing a variety of mental health issues to provide counselling, emotional and social support to children, young, adults and elderly people with complex needs.

Mental health assessments to clients to improve case health plan.

Risk assessments about mental health, behaviour, environment among others at any time to improve case plans.

To find deadlines on time to improve service to client every time.

Communicating with the team work to report the health condition of clients, requirements, unusual situations, emergencies among others at any time.

Active participation in meetings and communication with co-ordinators, supervisors and cases manager at any time.

Writing reports, risk assessments and others.

Working with clients’ within CALD.

2014 JULIE WARNER COMMUNITY CARE. SYDNEY-AUSTRALIA

www.jwhealth.com.au

Position Title: Community Support Worker

Role Responsibilities:

Visiting clients to provide emotional support according to mental health condition, aged among others.

Support clients providing social access and sustain.

Support clients providing personal care when they are unable to attend their own care as well as shopping or domestic care.

To find deadlines to improve service to client every time.

Communicating with the team work at any time to report the health condition of clients, requirements, unusual situations among others.

Working with clients’ within CALD.

Responsible for well-being of clients who are receiving support in any way.

2013- ROYAL REHABILITATION CENTRE SYDNEY. Australia.

www.royalrehab.com.au

Position Title: Psychologist Assistant

Role Responsibilities:

Support psychologist providing counselling focused in rediscover life goals, manage depression, anger and frustration felling from clients after suffer a big change of their physical condition.

Support psychologist with behaviour management from clients focused in arm reduction, developing resilience and others.

Support psychologist with group therapy programs.

Support psychologist helping in physiotherapy service providing physical and emotional sustain to people with spinal and brain injuries.

Assist with cognitive remediation training.

Assist with delivery of relaxation and other appropriate therapies to clients.

Assist with minute taking in clinical and administrative meetings.

Assist with research projects, when required

2007-2010 CHILDREN S PSYCHIATRY NATIONAL UNIT “DR. ALECIA BELLO PEÑA”. Venezuela.

It is a Government institution which provides medical care with special psychological support to children, adolescents and their families suffering mental health problems.

www.ivss.gov.ve

Position Title: Clinical Psychologist

Role Responsibilities:

Assessment and designer of plans to improve health attention in the centre to clients and families.

Psychological and Neuropsychological assessment to address the intervention plan according to needs of clients.

Psychotherapy and counselling to children, adolescents and families with mental health issues as anxiety, depression, low school performance, neurological illness and clients who were victims of abuse situations (physical, verbal, sexual, domestic violence and neglect) or living in extreme conditions.

Provide counselling and psychotherapy to support clients with a long history of abuse likes survivors of trauma childhood, sexual abuse and others.

Develop strategies to manage anger or violence behaviour from clients concentrated in arm reduction, develop resilience through play therapy, narrative therapy, interpersonal therapy and others as required.

Educate family members regarding to specific problems that affect relationship into family group and find better problem solution strategies.

Assessments, Diagnosis and treatment of children between 0 and 17 years old and their families.

Professional attention for couples and families providing counselling or psychotherapy focused in relieving family distress.

Psychological support toward couples or families through identifies negative interactions patterns as a problem (especially after exposition to traumatic event) and develops new interactions patterns better and more effective for clients.

Management within multi-disciplinary team.

Writing case reports, documents for legal instances and certificates monthly on time.

Since 2001 JOB PERFORMANCE IN PRIVATE PRACTICE AS A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST / PSYCHOTERAPIST . VENEZUELA.

Position Title: Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Role Responsibilities:

Assessment and Treatment of mental and behavioural disorders such as: mood disorders (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder), domestic violence, sexual assault, dependence on the consumption of multiple illegal and non-illegal drugs, aggressiveness, impulsiveness and other emotional conflicts to young people and children.

Manage psychotherapy groups for children and adolescents.

Educate people to manage their conflicts effectively.

Treating relationship conflicts in families and couples providing strategies to identify, accept and find a new way to have a better relationship overall in people with long history of abuse and domestic violence cases.

Provide individual consultations (Psychotherapy and Counselling) (children, adolescents and adults).

To offer a better mental health service, teamwork with psychiatry specialist, social workers and others background specialist used to be essential.

Writing case reports monthly on time.

2005-2008 “JOSE FELIX RIBAS FUNDATION”. DEPARTMENT OF HEALH OF VENEZUELA

Government institution focused in prevention and treatment to clients with drug addictions. This institution involves therapeutic communities, day hospitals and walk in clinics.

www.fundaribas.com.ve.

Position Title: Clinical Psychologist

Role Responsibilities:

Provide emotional support to clients with a long history of childhood abuse (neglect, violence or sexual abuse) within drug dependence disorder from them or their relatives.

Manage psychotherapy groups to children and adolescents using legal and illegal drugs.

Performing group therapy to families as part of intervention plan.

Provide individual consultations to young people and adults in restrictive practice within therapeutic community.

Assessments, diagnosing and administering proper psychological treatment for mental disorders specially impulsiveness and aggressiveness within family or relationship with each other.

Developing strategies and treatment programs in conjunction with psychiatrists and social workers to address the clinical issues.

Participating in clinical meetings with the rest of the clinical team (psychiatrists, social worker, psychologists).

Assessment of quality of service and planning of new services to improve service provided.

Writing cases report monthly on time.

2001-2004 MILITARY HOSPITAL “DR. CARLOS ARVELO”. VENEZUELA

This Government institution is part of the Ministry of Defence of Venezuela. It is a general hospital (surgery, maternity and hospitalization) for military persons and their families (www.foursquare.com)

www.hospimil.com.ve

Position Title: Clinical Psychologist/Master Training

Role Responsibilities:

Counselling and psychological attention care to clients (even young people) suffering several crisis as a psychosis, depression, bipolar disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, anxiety and others in restrictive practice within CBT and Positive Behaviour Program.

Manage psychotherapy groups to children and adolescents focused in a variety of issues as depression and bereavement, anxiety and others as required.

Counselling and psychotherapy addressed to relatives focused in family distress reduction, education about punctual topics regarding to clients in ward or following external treatment.

Counselling and psychological attention care to people in ward in different areas around the hospital, especially paediatric, oncology, maternity and neuropsychological services.

General Consultation for adults, teenagers and children and their families providing emotional support, family therapy and others as require.

Assessment, diagnosis and treatment to determinate pathology and address the psychological intervention toward clients as a part of intervention behaviour program.

Participating in clinical meetings with all different specialist background.

Special research in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to obtain degree as a specialist.

2000-2001 FUNDANA. VENEZUELA.

This institution provides care and support to children and adolescent who need protection through statutory child protection intervention.

acuygz@r.postjobfree.com; acuygz@r.postjobfree.com.

Position Title: Psychologist

Role Responsibilities:

Manage intervention plan based in a property assessment to children and young people living in orphans.

Provide individual intervention through psychotherapy within play therapy, interpersonal therapy and group therapy to clients.

Working closely with specialist with different professional background as psychiatrics, paediatrics, social worker, psychologist and others.

Provide support to children and adolescent in a variety of personal goals helping them to develop resilience and arm reduction. For instance school goals, personal care goals, family goals and others.

Writing cases report for legal instance on time.

Professional Development

Seminars, Conferences and Courses Taken

2015 Emotional Inteligence. Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney.

2015 Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Course. Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney.

2014 National Criminal History Check N 16922

2014 Working with Children Check N WWC0228548E

2014 First Aid Certificate from Red Cross Australia

2013 IELTS Preparation Course. HORNSBY TAFE

2013 Certificate IV in English for Academic Purposes. MEADOWBANK TAFE

2013 Work Place Health and Safety.

2013 Professional Boundaries for Volunteers.

2013 Infection Control.

2013 Fire Safety.

2013 Back to Basics.

2013 Minimal Lift.

2013 Volunteering Fundamentals by City of Ryde.

2012 Certificate III in Advanced English Course for Further Studies. RANDWICK TAFE

2011 Certificate II in English Course. AMES-NAVITAS

2009 IV Days in psychopharmacology update. II Symposium of paediatric psychopharmacology.

2009 Strategic and paradigmatic psychotherapy Course: Clinical application to couples and families (55 hours)

2008 Strategic and paradigmatic psychotherapy Course: theory and technique. (70 hours)

2008 Introduction to neuropsychological assessment Course. (24 hours)

2005 Cognitive therapy of anxiety disorders Course. (66 hours)

2003 WPA International Congress “Alliances for Mental Health” for which 32 WPA CME credits are granted.

2002 Gestalt Course. (40 hours)

2000 Neuropsychiatry and Neuropsychology Course.

Award

Belmore Community Care: Staff Recognition Award in appreciation of your commitment and hard work. Employee of the Month-Dec 2014

Certificate of Appreciation from Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney in recognition of contribution as a volunteer. National Volunteer week 12-18 May 2014.

Honours Mention from Venezuela Central University for researching about “Neuropsychological Assessment to Adolescents with Diagnosis of Schizophrenia” in 2000 to obtain bachelor degree as a Psychologist.

Certificate of recognition for high organization performance and support in the first seminar of the “Commission Against Illicit Drug Use in Venezuelan Army”. 2006 Venezuela.

Certificate of recognition for participating in a video about how to prevent drug use, as a specialist psychologist in the Venezuelan Army. 2006 Venezuela.

Certificate of recognition for hard worker in prevention of drug use. 2006. Intendancy Services Army. Venezuela.

Certificate of recognition for lecturer, drug abuse prevention workshop. 2006. 82nd Logistic Support Regiment in the Venezuelan Army.

Certificate of recognition for volunteer participation in the XXVII Inter-American Congress of Psychology. Inter-American Society of Psychology. Venezuela.

Awarded honourable mention by Venezuela Central University for research on “Neuropsychological assessment of adolescents with schizophrenia”. (2000)

Spoken languages

Spanish

English

Referees

As upon request.

Contact this candidate