Dex Smith Email & Phone Number

• Provided psychotherapy to individuals (at risk youth), groups and families over twelve weeks utilizing the following therapies: Cognitive, Solution Based, Logo and Schema.
• Facilitated weekly psycho-educational and substance abuse focused group to 8 African American and Hispanic males ages 12-17 with problems such as personality disorders, behavioral disturbances, anxiety, depression, and.
• Conducted psychosocial assessments, reviewed police reports, interpreted psychological data and conferred with state-appointed personnel.
• Counseled family members and designed and implemented treatment plans to identify family dynamics i.e. communication, unhealthy patterns and breaking the cycle of enabling.
• Provided appropriate referrals to meet individual needs of clients and clients systems.

1777 Reisterstown Rd Baltimore, MD 21208

• Answering phone calls from veterans asking for information about services provided by Vet Center and questions regarding benefits.
• Greet veterans/walk-ins and directing them to services and information(as needed)
• Photocopying and calling veterans to remind them of appointments
• Accompanying Outreach Specialist to outreach events, throughout Maryland, where I answered questions regarding Vet Center services, how to obtain DD-214 forms and other important information to combat veterans and.
• Networking with other agencies and locating services/speakers beneficial to veterans in the Baltimore area. At an outreach event, I located information regarding a neuro-science specialist who is willing to talk to.

1720 E. Tiffany Drive Suite 102 Mangonia Park, FL 33407

• Provided psychotherapy to individuals (at risk youth), groups and families over twelve weeks utilizing the following therapies: Cognitive, Solution Based, Logo and Schema.
• Facilitated weekly psycho-educational and substance abuse focused group to 8 African American and Hispanic males ages 12-17 with problems such as personality disorders, behavioral disturbances, anxiety, depression.
• Conducted intakes and needs assessments, assessed risk factors, reviewed police reports, interpreted psychological data and conferred with state-appointed personnel.
• Counseled and developed a preliminary plan involving families designed to identify family dysfunction i.e. communication and unhealthy patterns and breaking the cycle of enabling.
• Provided appropriate case management based services such as outreach services, community shelters and employment (directly or through referral) to meet individual needs of clients and families.
• Participated in weekly interdisciplinary treatment planning/discussions.

7789 NW Beacon Square Blvd #101 Boca Raton, FL 33487

• Served in an long term, 120+ bed adult alcohol and drug rehabilitation center.
• Utilized Cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic approach with clients and families.
• Provided psychotherapy to individuals and groups, adults with problems such as mood disorders, i.e. depression and anxiety, and character-logical disorders, i.e. narcissism and borderline personality disorder, while.
• Coordinated services with an interdisciplinary team members which consisted of social workers, psychologist, psychiatrist and counselor assistants; presented individual cases at weekly clinical team meetings.
• Generated intakes and needs assessments, completed individual treatment plans, goal setting with client, clinical formulations, discharge plans and recorded all clinical documentation in agency computer software.

2644 Riva Rd. Annapolis, MD 21404

• Followed lesson plan left by permanent teacher, taught all subject areas such as writing, math, science and study skills for grades K-12.
• Created and maintained a climate of respect and fairness for all students by demonstrating fair and ethical judgments and applying appropriate consequences for inappropriate student behavior for grades K-12.

6800 Forest Hill Blvd. Greenacres, FL 33413

• Intern Therapist/Teacher for developmentally disabled students ages (12-21).
• Led individual and group therapy sessions for children (ages 12-21) whose diagnoses included: Autistic, Emotional Disturbances, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Down syndrome, Learning Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy and.
• Facilitated a weekly 7 person social skill group of higher level learning students.
• Conducted intakes and needs assessments, completed individual treatment plans and recorded all progress notes/ clinical documentation in agency computer.
• Conducted assessments, goal settings w/students & provided resources on disability-related information, outreach services and community education.

10910 Clarksville Pike Ellicott City, MD 21042

• Worked with each department in developing specific training programs required for individual students.
• Successfully influenced classroom policy changes in the development of lower level learning students. Over a 75% rate of graduation rate for students under my supervision.
• Researched and examined Individualized Evaluation Reports (IEP’s) to develop effective classroom management techniques, record keeping/data, report generation, data compilation of special education students work.

Master Of Social Work (M.S.W.), Social Work

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Political Science And Government