Ylusion Hernandez Morales

Sud Rehabilitation Counselor @U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

SUD and SMI Rehabilitation Counselor providing personal adjustment counseling, therapeutic rehabilitation interventions, and case coordination services.Use evidence-informed and evidence-based modalities, including Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Supported Employment), to aid Veterans with severe disabilities, such as physical, psychosocial, psychological, or neurological barriers, integrate successfully into the community.Use effective counseling skills to promote self-awareness, adjustment to disability, enhanced job retention and successful integration to the community.Conduct biopsychosocial assessments using medical records, pertinent disability documentation, observation and interviews with Veterans and their support systems to generate personal, vocational, and educational histories.Select, administer, and interpret vocational and other psychometric instruments to evaluate abilities, transferrable skills, functional capacity, labor market analyses, aptitudes, interests, values, preferences, and overall work resilience and synthesize into an interpretive data report.Develop patient-centered treatment plans utilizing Specific, Measurable, Agreed upon, Realistic, and Time-based (SMART) goals and provide ongoing assessment of Veteran\'s progress.Communicate appropriately with community health care professionals to provide useful input to other team members and employers concerning the Veteran and the family\'s psychosocial needs.Utilize knowledge of the military culture, military transition to civilian occupations, and specific factors and dynamics associated with Veterans, particularly combat Veterans, to advise those who are returning to the community, and community-based work.Adhere to the professional rehabilitation standards of the Joint Commission and Commission for Accreditation Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

The University of Texas at El Paso

Master of Rehabilitation Counseling

Park University

Bachelor of Science - BS