Social Services Crisis Intervention
Resume:
Caroline Murphy
Lady Lakes, Florida *****mailto:ad5tco@r.postjobfree.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
Therapist
The Counseling Center - Middletown, NJ - August 1995 to Present
Providing career and motivational counseling and access to resources to individuals who are reentering the work force and expressing a need for psychological and material assistance. Providing referrals to other medical staff required.
Clinician
Elizabeth General Medical Center - Elizabeth, NJ - January 1992 to August 1994 of Department of Psychiatry In-Patient Treatment Team- providing assessments, short term individual and group therapy and crisis intervention to involuntary in-patient population. Conducting individual and multi-family group sessions and assisting patients in accessing appropriate follow up care.
Family Therapist
Phoenix House Foundation - Rockleigh, NJ - January 1991 to January 1992 providing individual and family therapy for both adolescent and adult substance abuse population. Holding multi family was well as private therapy sessions and running support groups for resident families.
Director of Social Services
Hamilton Park Health Care - Jersey City, NJ - September 1989 to January 1991
responsible for assessment and supportive and psychological counseling of patients as well as providing family counseling and crisis intervention. Hiring, training and managing of department personnel. Heading resident counsel groups and serving as patient advocate, assuring their access to all entitlements.
Director of Social Services- Serving
American Red Cross - Plainfield, NJ - September 1987 to April 1988
as a liaison between the military population of Western Union County and Washington, D.C. as well as the administration of the homeless program.
Assistant Director of Development
Vail Deane School - Mountainside, NJ - September 1978 to June 1987
Developing and managing school fundraising activities and public relations campaigns. Networking with merchants, alumni, and local government and media.
Teacher-social studies, mathematics, science and language arts
St. Patrick's School - Elizabeth, NJ - July 1976 to June 1978
to fifth and sixth grade students. Helped establish a counseling program for students.
Community Leader,
Somerset Hills Country & Day School - Township of Warren, NJ - June 1975 to September 1976
Warren, New Jersey 9/1976 to 6/1975
Psychological Counseling of emotionally disturbed boys. Working closely with the school psychiatrist and the head of social services. Family counseling and networking with various community resource agencies while completing undergraduate work.
Community: Fundraiser/Newspaper Editor, Connecticut Farms Junior Women's Club-Head of Braille Department- Raising money for the New Jersey Association for the Blind. Recipient of the Helen Keller Award for Fund Raising.
Community Leader, Successfully spearheaded a community movement to gain a crossing guard at a busy intersection in Roselle Park. - Successfully organized community effort to persuade the City of Elizabeth to purchase a defunct county club to be turned into a community center for the use of area residents.
EDUCATION
B.A. in BACHELOR OF ARTS
KEAN COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY - Union, NJ
MASTERS DEGREE - MSW in SOCIAL WORK
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF N.J. - New Brunswick, NJ
CLINICAL CREDITS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY - Bronx, NY
SKILLS
Organizational and Negotiating Skills. Experience in the Motivation, Counceling and Supervision of staff.
LINKS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Was granted a Fellowship running the United Way Fund Raising Campaign at Hoffman LaRoche Pharmaceutical Corporation. This campaign resulted in the most financially successful Hoffman LaRoche/United Way Fund campaign in the history of the company to date.
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