Rita Blackwell
HMPO Therapist
- Role
- Social Worker Ii at Houston Methodist
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rita Blackwell
Senior Social Worker with individual and family therapy experience. Medical Social Worker…
Experience
Social Worker Ii
Aug 2022 — Present
Independently provides advance professional social work services to address medical, psychiatric and social concerns by using a Bio-psychosocial perspective to assess, evaluate, implement, monitor, advocate and implement services for patients and their families. •Interviews and screens patients to interpret social and environmental factors and medical requirements.•Plans course of treatment or refers cases to appropriate professionals, institutions or agencies to ensure that patients receive appropriate treatment or referral.•Obtains data from patients in the best interest of their problems to assist in the development of a number of significant teaching endeavors, programs, and social services.•Works towards meeting total patient care. This includes interviews with the patients to study the individual’s problems and needs, confers with the physician which may have an interest in the patient’s problem, assists patients in developing an economically feasible method of planning for services, and to make psychological and social adjustments necessitated by different types of illnesses, and conducts individual and group therapies.•Prepares detailed for review with collaborative care team.•Conducts independent psychotherapies to assist the patients in achieving positive psychological and/or social adjustments and carry administrative responsibilities for a program.•Participates in teaching and staff development activities, functions as an instructor in the education of physicians and their team who are a part of the CoCM program.•Solicits the assistance of religious, social, and welfare agencies in the treatment of patients. Interacts with social work and psychiatric team.
Education
Michigan State University
Master’s Degree, Clinical/Medical Social Work
2009 — 2013
Michigan State University
Bachelor’s Degree, Social Work
2004 — 2008
Northcentral University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
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