Marquita Martin Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Tx

Provide quick and accurate clinical assessments of mental health and substance abuse conditions. Also provide brief, solution focused therapy and motivational interviewing with patients as needed. Coordinate and facilitate communication between primary care and psychiatrist when needed. Utilize behavioral health expertise to promote change to improve behavioral and physical health conditions. Provide referrals and community resources information. Assist with linkage to more intense psychiatric care as appropriate.

Working with children,adolescent,adult and geriatric patients in both process and skills groups. Family therapy sessions to prepare families for patient's discharge and aftercare. Multifamily educational/skills group. Documentation includes writing psychosocial assessments and treatment plans, group therapy/family therapy session notes, discharge planning.

Provided initial certification of outpatient therapy and medical requests by providers and members. Depending on the time of year, received from 20 to 30 calls a day requiring assessment of needs. Identified, coordinated, and followed through on quality concerns, complaints, and performance standards.

Obtained psychosocial histories, performed assessment of patients, developed treatment plans, and documented group therapy sessions. Co-facilitated therapy groups for Pride Unit, chemical dependency/acute mental illness units. Assisted with family and individual therapy sessions.

Managed case load of 20 families assisting with referrals and community resources. Facilitated a support group for all women in shelter. Issues included domestic violence, child abuse, parenting, citizenship, and stress.

Interviewed clients/family for psychosocial assessments, care planning, quality of life plans, and referrals to community resources. Developed portable library for residents. Maintained documentation on all residents (150+) for state audits.

Assisted with providing clients help with obtaining housing, medication/medical treatment, emergency financial assistance and food pantry services. Facilitated a support group in financial education/budgeting for clients using a curriculum I designed. Conducted research in the areas of transportation/pantry services which was presented to HIV Planning Council of Tarrant County.

Undergraduate internship at a domestic violence long-term residential program for survivors and their families. Planned the speaker schedule for the upcoming year for their support group, researched and contacted the speakers, Developed a scholarship resources book for the clients to help them go back to school. Speaker for the program at various community outreaches.

Mssw, Social Work

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha - social work honor society; UTA Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.Specialized.

Bssw, Social Work/History

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Honor Society, TCU Student Chapter of National Association of Social Workers, Literary.

General Liberal Arts

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, Texas Association of Mexican-American College Students (co-treasurer), Student Advisory.