Licensed Psychologist GA, FL
Resume:
Adam Castleberry, Psy.D.
Phone: 229-***-**** E-mail: adbjbh@r.postjobfree.com
EMPLOYMENT
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PRESENT MENTAL HEALTH DIRECTOR Centurion of FL
+Work closely with HSA, DON, nursing staff to stabilize the mental health department at two correctional facilities
+Maintain an open door policy for staff members from all departments to discuss any issue/concern they have about patients or patient care
+Provide effective communication in writing and in person with staff in various departments including institutional administration
+Maintain awareness of how mental health staff can positively or negatively affect the perception of the Florida Department of Corrections
+Oversee and evaluate work activities of mental health staff, mental health clerical staff, and support staff
+Monitor, assess, and advise mental health staff on clinical or facility related procedures and protocols
+Provide oversight to mental health staff, addressing and resolving any problems or conflicts
+Coordinate with recruiter, interview potential mental health employees, recommend hires, and follow through on the hiring process as needed
+Coordinate and monitor training of all new mental health staff
+Coordinate and monitor supervision of unlicensed mental health staff
+Assist in OHS, CMA, and CQI audits as needed
+Educate mental health staff on policies and procedures based on results of all internal and external audits
+Develop corrective action plans as needed based on results of CMA and OHS audits
+Coordinate and supervise the monitoring of OHS and CMA caps according to the corrective action plan
+Assisted in the collection of mental health records for ACA audit
+Complete annual employee performance reviews for all mental health staff including the mental health nurse and psychiatric ARNP
+Conduct weekly MDST meeting, ensure proper documentation of meeting, and follow up on information presented there as needed
+Ensures that mental health practices are consistent with NCCHC/ACA medical and mental health standards
+Update HSA as needed regarding mental health staffing, performance of mental health staff, and any issues arising that involve patients and/or staff
+Participate in weekly meetings with Warden to discuss audits and ongoing corrective actions plans
+Respond to Wardens concerns about specific patients/patient concerns
+Address emergent mental health concerns of or related to specific patients
+Respond to all informal and formal patient grievances and ensure grievances receive a prompt and clinically appropriate response
+Respond to requests of S1 patients and schedule them to be seen when warranted
+Ensure compliance with all facility and company policies, federal and state laws, regulations and guidelines including HIPAA
+Assisted in the coordination of care with security staff, medical staff, support staff, dental staff, and nursing staff
+Refer patient to other departments as warranted
+Maintain an ethical commitment to ensure confidentiality within the limits of the correctional environment
+Assess patients in emergent situations to determine need for SHOS, CSU
+Ensure that mental health treatment is delivered in a nonjudgmental manner to protect the autonomy, dignity, and rights of the patient
+Provide appropriate and timely documentation that is comprehensible
+Express opinions and clinical judgments in written and verbal form
+Follow through on commitments and agreements to staff and patients
10/2015 –
5/2016 SENIOR MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN Corizon, Lake City, FL
+Work closely with HSA, DON, nursing staff to stabilize the Columbia CI mental health department
+Maintain an open door policy for staff members from all departments to discuss any issue/concern they have about patients or patient care
+Provide effective communication in writing and in person with staff in various departments including institutional administration
+Maintain awareness of how mental health staff can positively or negatively affect the perception of the Florida Department of Corrections
+Oversee and evaluate work activities of mental health staff, mental health clerical staff, and support staff
+Monitor, assess, and advise mental health staff on clinical or facility related procedures and protocols
+Provide oversight to mental health staff, addressing and resolving any problems or conflicts
+Coordinate with recruiter, interview potential mental health employees, recommend hires, and follow through on the hiring process as needed
+Coordinate and monitor training of all new mental health staff
+Coordinate and monitor supervision of unlicensed mental health staff
+Assist in OHS, CMA, and CQI audits as needed
+Educate mental health staff on policies and procedures based on results of all internal and external audits
+Develop corrective action plans as needed based on results of CMA and OHS audits
+Coordinate and supervise the monitoring of OHS and CMA caps according to the corrective action plan
+Assisted in the collection of mental health records for ACA audit
+Complete annual employee performance reviews for all mental health staff including the mental health nurse and psychiatric ARNP
+Conduct weekly MDST meeting, ensure proper documentation of meeting, and follow up on information presented there as needed
+Ensures that mental health practices are consistent with NCCHC/ACA medical and mental health standards
+Update HSA as needed regarding mental health staffing, performance of mental health staff, and any issues arising that involve patients and/or staff
+Participate in weekly meetings with Warden to discuss audits and ongoing corrective actions plans
+Respond to Wardens concerns about specific patients/patient concerns
+Address emergent mental health concerns of or related to specific patients
+Respond to all informal and formal patient grievances and ensure grievances receive a prompt and clinically appropriate response
+Respond to requests of S1 patients and schedule them to be seen when warranted
+Ensure compliance with all facility and company policies, federal and state laws, regulations and guidelines including HIPAA
+Assisted in the coordination of care with security staff, medical staff, support staff, dental staff, and nursing staff
+Refer patient to other departments as warranted
+Maintain an ethical commitment to ensure confidentiality within the limits of the correctional environment
+Assess patients in emergent situations to determine need for SHOS, CSU
+Ensure that mental health treatment is delivered in a nonjudgmental manner to protect the autonomy, dignity, and rights of the patient
+Provide appropriate and timely documentation that is comprehensible
+Express opinions and clinical judgments in written and verbal form
+Follow through on commitments and agreements to staff and patients
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11/2012 –
10/2008 MOBILE PSYCHOLOGIST Salus Health, Various Locations
+Functioned independently as a mobile psychologist that traveled to several nursing home facilities weekly
+Liasion between nursing home patient, patient family, nursing staff, physicans, and other facilities and facilitated communication between all parties
+Conducted initial psychological assessment and treatment plans for referred elderly patients in several nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities
+Assisted with an emergency petition, when warranted, to have patient taken to ER for evaluation
+Maintained electronic documentation (Diagnostic Evaluation Forms, Progress Notes, and Treatment Plans) for all patients referred to me
+Developed and maintained professional relationships with staff members at several facilities
11/2011 –
10/2012 MOBILE PSYCHOLOGIST MedOptions, Various Locations
+Functioned independently as a mobile psychologist that traveled to several nursing home facilities and skilled nursing facilities weekly
+Liasion between nursing home patient, patient family, nursing staff, physicans, and other facilities and facilitated communication between all parties
+Conducted initial psychological assessment and treatment plans for referred elderly patients in several nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities
+Worked with MedOptions office staff and facility staff to have a patient transferred to one of three inpatient psychiatric facilities, when needed
+Developed and maintained professional relationships with staff members at several facilities
11/2010 –
11/2011 INTAKE COORDINATOR Glass MH Associates, Baltimore, MD
+Functioned independently in ensuring that every adjudicated adolescent male admitted to the Charles Hickey School received an intake evaluation
+Created a report based on information gained in this evaluation
+Triaged intake order of new student admissions based on MAYSI score
+Liaison to student’s therapist, psychiatrist, case manager, and medical department and faciliated communication between all parties
+Delegated intake evaluations to other staff members when necessary
11/2009 –
11/2010 RESIDENTIAL THERAPIST Chesapeake Treatment Center, Baltimore, MD
+Facilitated treatment team when Clinical Director was absent
+Served as Inpatient Clinical Director when director was absent
+Served as a consult for other clinicians regarding possible treatment objectives or techniques for their difficult residents
+Weekly individual sessions with adjudicated adolescent males
+Family sessions as warranted
+Weekly psychoeducation group
+Active role in the treatment progress of residents in a daily discovery group
+Active role in the daily Positive Peer Coalition Group as a staff advisor
+Liaison between resident, psychiatrist, probation officer, Department of
Juvenile Justice, Department of Social Services and facilitated communication between all parties
+Initial psychosocial evaluation of each assigned resident
+Active role in weekly multidisciplinary treatment team meetings by assisting residents in preparing to discuss their own goals and where they feel they are in meeting those goals
+Regularly assisted residents in tracking their treatment progress through a comprehensive list of expected treatment goals
7/2007 –
Present ONLINE FACULTY University of Phoenix
+Facilitate approved courses as assigned: Lifespan Development, Advanced Abnormal Psychology, Multicultural Psychology, and Physiological Psychology
+Respond to students' posts in the online classroom forum
+Address student concerns about learning environment, learning team members, and class progress as they arise.
+Facilite accomodations for ADA students referred by the ADA advisor
+Create syllabi for classes using curriculum content and material provided by UOP and assign point values for assignments
+Score assignments weekly, provide constructive criticism to students, return assignments in a timely manner
+Respond to any questions students may have about class content or process within 24 hours
7/2008 –
8/2009 FACULTY MENTOR University of Phoenix
+Facilitated a mentorship forum for assigned mentee
+Liaison between mentee and Academic Affairs
+Shadowed mentee throughout their entire first course they facilitated online
+Addressed any student concern's with mentee when warranted
+Sent surveys about mentees performance in class to students and shared select comments with mentee while protecting identity of student
+Provided ongoing feedback to mentee and monitored for efficient, appropriate response from mentee as a result of that feedback.
9/2006 –
5/2010 OUTPATIENT THERAPIST Chesapeake Treatment Center, Baltimore, MD
+Functioned independently to coordinate the outpatient care of adjudicated and non adjudicated juveniles across two counties in Maryland
+Developed the organizational structure of a one year curriculum based outpatient program for adjudicated/preadjudicated male adolescents
+Created a curriculum specifically for female adjudicated/preadjudicated adolescents
+Created a curriculum specifically for young male (10-12 years old) adjudicated/preadjudicated adolescents
+Facilitated weekly individual/group/family sessions with adolescent males/females ordered by the court to participate in a one year outpatient program
+Developed individualized treatment plans for adolescent males/females while following an outpatient program curriculum
+Liaison between adolescent males/parents/probation officers/case managers and worked ot effect positive collaboration between all parties.
+Attended monthly review meetings with Department of Juvenile Services employees to discuss the progress/lack of progress of program participants
+Initial intake sessions with client and guardian
+Facilitated recurring mandatory 10-week Informed Supervision groups for parents of adjudicated/preadjudicated youths
+Facilitated up to 11 groups weekly
9/2003 –
8/2006 PSYCHOLOGY INTERN Various Locations, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania
+Supervised practicum student
+Initial assessment and diagnostic sessions with seniors, adults, adolescents, and children
+Individual, couples, family therapy
+Facilitated weekly men’s group
+Facilitated weekly medication/psychoeducation group
+Rotations: Drug/Alcohol, Child/Adolescent/Family, Geriatric
+Biofeedback sessions
+Provided consultation services
+Administered, scored, and interpreted Rorschach, WAIS-III, MMPI, MMPI-A, WISC- III, WISC-IV, Cognistat, Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test, Bender-Gestalt, Hooper, Thematic Apperception Test, House/Tree/Person, Kinetic Family Drawing and wrote integrative psychological reports based on the results of these
+Attended biweekly case presentations with Dr. John Money
2/1994 –
7/2005 PSYCHIATRIC, REHABILITATION, MENTAL HEALTH NURSE Various Locations
+Served in the capacity of unit supervisor on weekend option for the last two years of employment
+Initiated therapeutic activities for geriatric psychiatric patients on weekend days
+Provide Prescribed Medical Treatment in a Gero-Psychiatric Unit, Dual Diagnosis (Drug Addiction/Mental Illness) Detoxification Center, and a Correctional Facility
+Supervised one to five nursing assistants, patient care staff
+Provide prescribed medical treatment in a Geriatric/Psychiatric Center, Dual Diagnosis (Drug Addiction/Mental Illness) Detoxification Center, and a Correctional Facility
+Attended weekly multi-disciplinary treatment team meetings
+Patient/Family education concerning various psychiatric disorders, various medications, and course of treatment
+Provide prescribed medical treatment on a Gero-Psychiatric unit
EDUCATION
2003 – 2006 DOCTORATE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Argosy University, DC
+ServedArgosy Univeristy is an APA accredited Psy.D. Program
+Diversity Specialization
2001 – 2003 MASTERS OF ARTS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Argosy University, DC
+Diversity Specialization
1998 – 2001 BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Towson University, MD
+Summa Cum Laude
1992 – 1993 GRADUATE OF LPN PROGRAM Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, Valdosta, GA
LICENSES
10/2012 LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST Florida Active
10/2013 LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST Georgia Active
REFERENCES
LISA TOMLINSON Centurion, Health Services Administrator, FL
ED ZINNIE, RN Centurion, Regional Director, FL
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LAURA MORENO-CHAVEZ, PSY.D. Centurion, FL
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