Substance Abuse Health
Resume:
BENEDICTA E. EJINDU
****Wells Dr. Evans, GA 912-***-****(cell)
706-***-**** (home) acsl8g@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE: To obtain the position of a licensed therapist
EDUCATION/LICENSURE
Licensed Professional Counselor LPC.
Approved for Advanced Addiction Counselor Examination
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Master of Education in Counselor Education/Higher Education Student Services
GPA 3.87 May 2010
Enugu State University of Science & Technology. Enugu, Nigeria, 1999 Bachelor of Science in Public Administration, GPA 3.
BENEDICTA E.EJINDU
Still Waters Professional Counseling Inc. till date.
In this position I work as an LPC. I am assigned the following responsibilities:
Serve Adult patient with dual diagnosis.
Children requiring Intensive Family Intervention
Provide Mental Status Face- to- Face Health Assessments determining Affect, Mood, Thought Process, Orientation, Behavior and Risk of Harm for clients.
Provide behavior modification to children ages 0 to 21.
Provide crisis management services to families
Provide diagnostic assessment to determine the need for rehabilitative services
Provide mental health follow –up assessment to reevaluate the client’s status, identify any significant changes in behavior and /or condition, and to monitor and ensure appropriateness of treatment
Provide Family support services
Provide Family Psychotherapy
Provide Family /Individual Therapy for DFCS consumers mandated to receive treatment to improve parenting skills
Provide Individual Psychotherapy
Provide Intensive Family Intervention
Provide psychosocial rehabilitation counseling to help client with behavioral health and substance abuse disorders improve the quality of life.
Administer Locus and CAFAS for clients.
Doing discharge summaries for discharged clients.
THREE YEARS SUPERVISED CLINICAL TRAINING TOWARDS LPC
PETERKIN OF SOUTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER – 2014 – JUNE 2015
In this position I worked as a licensed therapist. I am assigned the following responsibilities:
Administering (BHS) Biopsychosocial / Behavioral Health Screening.
Create, modify, and execute Treatment Plan tailored to meet individual client needs and goals
Served patient with dual diagnosis.
Provide Mental Status Face- to- Face Health Assessments determining Affect, Mood, Thought Process, Orientation, Behavior and Risk of Harm for clients.
Provide behavior modification to children ages 0 to 21.
Provide crisis management services to families
Provide diagnostic assessment to determine the need for rehabilitative services
Provide mental health follow –up assessment to reevaluate the client’s status, identify any significant changes in behavior and /or condition, and to monitor and ensure appropriateness of treatment
Provide Family support services
Provide Family Psychotherapy
Provide Group Psychotherapy
Provide Individual Psychotherapy
Provide psychosocial rehabilitation counseling to help client with behavioral health and substance abuse disorders improve the quality of life for beneficiaries by assisting them to resume responsibilities over their lives.
HOPE HOUSE OF AUGUSTA January – 2015- May 2015
I worked directly under the supervision of an LPC (Clinical Director) as a clinical intern to:
Provide therapeutic services to resident (women and their children) receiving comprehensive treatment to end the cycles of substance abuse, untreated mental illness, and poverty. Among my responsibilities are, reviewing resident transition, progress, needs and outcome in the monthly treatment team meetings with the clinical director and other staff. Reviewing and scoring resident PTSD Assessment, from National Center for PTSD. Conducting Assessments for resident determining their placement/level of care using ASAM placement criteria. Residents in the substance abuse counseling group, are taught the following concepts as it relates to addiction, relapse, recovery, and additive thinking:
Addiction Group
Anger management
Self Esteem
12 Step Study
Relapse Prevention
Trauma
Process Group
Stress Management
Parenting
Life Skills
Healthy Relationship
Criminal Addictive Thinking
Co-Occurring Disorders
Family Dynamics
TT & T Counseling Services, Inc. Augusta GA. - May 2014 – December 10th 2014
In this position I worked as a licensed therapist .I was assigned the following responsibilities:
Administering (BHA) Biopsychosocial / Behavioral Health Assessment for client that are referred by Behavioral Health Line, Crisis line, GRU (MCG) and other referral sources.
Create, modify, and execute Treatment Plan tailored to meet individual client needs and goals
Served patient with dual diagnosis disorders
Provide Mental Status Face- to- Face Health Assessments determining Affect, Mood, Thought Process, Orientation, Behavior and Risk of Harm
Administering and Interpreting CAFAS for children and adolescent
Administering and reviewing of LOCUS Adult Version 2000 Instrument determining the level of Risk of Harm, Functional Status, Medical, Addictive, and Psychiatric Co- Morbidity, Major Co- morbidity, Serve Co- morbidity, Recovery Environment to determine level of stress.
Liaise with other referral sources, Doctor Offices, BHL, Law enforcement Agencies and DEFCS to help meet individual patient needs.
Provide Referral to other Agencies and Residential Facilities
Referred Patient that are Suicidal to cute stabilization center
Provide treatment update to psychiatrist and other multidisciplinary staff
Provide Family training, Family and Individual Counseling to families at the community level
Serving the rural community as a licensed Associate Professional Counselor providing services to Adults, Children and Adolescent at their homes
Provide therapeutic services to children/adolescent /adult who include children from DJJ, DFACS, and other private referrals that needed psychiatric treatment/ Biopsychosocial Assessment, counseling services at TT &T office.
Worked directly with law enforcement agencies in resolving emergency and crisis as they arise to help stabilize our patient and their families.
Worked directly with patients (Adults, Adolescent and children) that have different kind of Mental Disorder which include Bipolar, Schizophrenia, ADHD, ADD, ODD, Borderline Personality, Anxiety, Chemical Dependency, PTSD, Paranoid Ideation, and OCD.
Worked directly with school principal and other staff to help meet student behavioral health needs at school.
PARKWAY PLACE / DEPARMENT OF VETRAN AFFAIRS AUGUSTA, GA. Sept-December 2013.
I worked directly under the supervision of a LCSW.
I functioned as a social worker, a generalist and associate professional counselor in this placement setting.
I worked with Homeless Veteran Women and residents that are in Recovery with Steppingstones to Recovery who have dual diagnosis (mental health and substance abuse diagnosis).
Among my responsibilities are - case management, drug and alcohol testing, supervised self- administered medication, commuting residents to the VA, school etc.
I provided psycho educational groups (life Skills Training, Nutrition, Health education and Financial Management and other services assessed to be an integral part of resident plan.
I co-facilitated and drafted a life skill and women group curriculum in the Department of Veteran Affairs under the supervision of LCSW working with Veterans
LIGHT HOUSE CARE CENTER AUGUSTA, GA July 2013-September 2013.
Worked directly under the supervision of an, LPC, LMFT and LMSW (Clinical Director) to;
Provide therapeutic services to resident children/adolescent from DJJ, DFACS, and other private referrals that are in the psychiatric unit of the facility.
Provided group, family and individual counseling sessions within appropriate time frame and they are documented within my licensing accrediting guidelines.
I served on a- call rotational basis and respondent to any resident in crises.
I was exposed to documentation and treatment team meetings.
I worked with other referral source making appropriate arrangements for resident’s next level of care.
I worked with sexual traumatized adolescents, using Path way to Recovery and Roadmaps and other interventions for treatment.
I worked with sexual acting children and adolescent providing treatments according to TX specification
I worked with psychiatrist, nursing and multidisciplinary staff to meet psychiatric and behavioral needs of residents.
Jones Behavioral Health Inc. December 2011 – December 2012
SUBSTANCE ABUSE / CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY TRAINING:
I worked directly under the supervision of LCSW to provide the following service.
Counseled drug court participants in the Augusta Judicial circuit drug court, collecting samples for drug tests and doing appropriate documentation for this population
Worked with patients that have dual diagnosis substance abuse and mental health.
Screening clients and determining their eligibility for receiving treatment
Doing intake and initial assessment for admission into the treatment facility.
Assessing, identifying and evaluating an individual’s strengths, weaknesses, problem, and needs for the development of the treatment plan.
Counseling and using special skills to assist clients in achieving objectives through exploration of problems and ramification, towards finding a new identity.
Facilitated recovery group, conducted assessment using Motivation Assessment Planning (MAP) with inmates from the department of correction that was released from prison before transitioning back to the society.
Trinity Christian Statesboro GA January – February 2011
Metter High School, Metter, GA March- May 2011
Counseled and advised students simultaneously to help increase student progression, retention and graduation.
Providing services using cognitive behavioral Therapy technique to help meet students need.
Worked with PO officers discussing behavioral plans for students under supervision.
Worked directly with a school counselor discussing behavioral modification and identity development for students with Substance dependency disorder.
ADVISEMENT / HIGHER EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
College of Liberal Arts And Social Science Advisement Center at Georgia Southern University
Graduate Intern/ Retention Advisor
Worked 600 hours as a graduate intern
Counseled, advised and provided RAN to at risk students with less than 2.0 GPA from the College of Arts and Liberal Sciences Major
Administered programs for students with unsatisfactory mid -term grades and assisted with academic issues.
Spoke one- on- one with students who had three or more U’s from all CLASS majors to analyze issues that led to unsatisfactory grades.
Worked directly with Bachelors of General Studies Advisor, learning the dynamics of academic advisement. Advised and provided students with information concerning course description and advising students on core curriculum.
Counseled and advised students simultaneously to help increase student progression, retention and graduation in all College of Liberal Arts and Social Science Majors.
Talked with students facing academic problems and referred them to the Academic Success Center.
Studied student transcripts and transferred credits and how to make use all transferred hours. I also worked on student transcript to convert quarter hours to semester hours and how to use classes that the university transferred for the student.
Studied about different majors in the College of Liberal Arts & Social Science and what student can do with the various majors.
Degree program
Cleared students for graduation
Calculated students GPA
Learned about General Studies and the different concentrations and minors
Learned about College preparatory class.
Volunteer Georgia Southern University November 2007
Worked directly with an academic advisor as a volunteer
Entering students grades from all majors in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Science
Recording and entering data for General Studies students.
UNIVERSITY SERVICES
Interviewer for admission applicants to the M.Ed Counselor
Education-student Affairs concentration at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
BENEDICTA E.EJINDU
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Administrative Officer at Accounting & Consulting Solutions Dec.2005 – Jun. 2006
Inc. Pittsburgh, P.A
Worked directly with a Certified Public Accountant.
Responsible for the systematic arrangement, collation and processing of clients’ accounting data using quick books and other accounting applications.
Child Welfare Officer at the YMCA, Duquesne University Child Development
Center. Pittsburgh, PA January 2005-March 2005
As a volunteer in the child development center.
Oversaw the care of 30 infants and young toddlers.
Administrative officer at The Nigerian Ports Authority, Apapa Port Complex, Lagos
Nigeria. August 2000-July 2001
Worked in the Personnel Department in the office of the chief Port Engineer
Collated and supervised all inward correspondence
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
The Licensed Professional Counselors Association ( LPCA) Active Member
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
National Academic Advising Development Association (NACADA WEBINARS)
The Global Community For Academic Advising: Advising Students on Academic Probation
February 4 2010
Reaching and Retaining Students: Effective Academic Advising Strategies March 3 2010
Success with Parent Education: Dialoging with New Students and their Parents at the Collegiate Level February 4 2009
Making the Grade: what Advisors and Administrators Need to Know to Better Assist students
With disabilities March 26 2009
CONFERENCES
Recovery on My Mind: Hosted by Georgia Council on Substance Abuse & Hope House of Augusta
March 11, 2015
11th and 12th Annual South Eastern Conference on Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling and
Education February 10 – 11, 2012: February 15-16, 2011.
Addictions Update Georgia Southern University October 2013.
South Georgia Association for Play therapy: 2011 Winter Conference. January 28-29, 2011
Safe Space Program at Georgia Southern University February 2 2010
Different Faces of Israel March 2009
PRESENTATIONS
Students Code of Conduct Violation: Policy on Academic Dishonesty April 2009
Evaluation and Revision of an Existing Program in Student Affairs March 2009
New Jersey Department of Education Tests September 2008
Universities Mission Statements March 2009
International Students in Higher Education March 2008
Multicultural Counseling and Therapy July 2007
Highlights on Orientation October 2007
COMPUTER SKILLS
Windows 95,98,2000, XP Microsoft Office
Internet Explorer Microsoft Power Point
Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word
Banner Crystal Report
Quick books Focus Assessment
TheraScribe Share Note
HONORS
Chi Sigma Iota (Counseling Academic and Professional Society International)
Golden Key International Honor Society
Pi Lambda Theta- International Honor Society and Professional Association in Education
BENEDICTA E. EJINDU
REFERENCES
Mary H. Jackson, Ed.D. NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Professor Emeritus
Georgian Southern University
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Stephen J. Jenkins, Ph.D., Professor
Dept. of Curriculum, foundations & Reading,
Georgia Southern University
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Lisa L. Schulz, Ph.D., LPC-LPSC, NCC
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Coordinator of Internship and undergraduate Minor
University of North Texas Counseling Program
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Marilyn S. Hale. M.Ed.
College of Business Advisement Center
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460- 8004
912- 478- 2312.
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Leon Spencer, Ph.D. LPC.
Professor Emeritus
Georgia Southern University
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Marsha .F. Warren, E.ds., LPC, CPCS
13 B South Mulberry Street
Statesboro GA
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