Low to No Risk

14

Moderate Risk

1

High Risk

0

Extreme Risk

0

• 0.5Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.
• 0.5Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.
• 0.5Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.
• 1Collect information about clients, using techniques such as testing, interviewing, discussion, or observation.
• 1.5Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, or legal aid.
• 0.3Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities.
• 2.5Follow up on results of counseling programs and clients' adjustments to determine effectiveness of programs.
• 1.7Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal, financial, and other personal issues.
• 0.7Gather information from doctors, schools, social workers, juvenile counselors, law enforcement personnel, and others to make recommendations to courts for resolution of child custody or visitation disputes.
• 1.6Provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.
• 0.8Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants.
• 0.1Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary.
• 0.8Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.
• 0.5Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.

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