Mental Health Program Manager Interview Questions

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-Intersection of MH and criminal justice -Basic Clinical questions (how do you handle crisis etc) -Why do you want to work with clients in an alternative to incarceration program -How do you deal with court parties who may not feel the same as you.
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Mental Health Counselor

Interviewed at Center for Court Innovation

3.3
Nov 22, 2021

-Intersection of MH and criminal justice -Basic Clinical questions (how do you handle crisis etc) -Why do you want to work with clients in an alternative to incarceration program -How do you deal with court parties who may not feel the same as you.

1. Please tell us about yourself and discuss your knowledge, education, and experience working with clients experiencing a mental health crisis, a MH disorder and/or, a severe and persistent mental illness. Include your level of experience working with incarcerated clients and/or justice involved clients, and where you gained this experience. 2. Please discuss your knowledge and experience working with a team, a challenge you faced while working with a team, and how you overcame those challenges. 3. How would your therapeutic approach differ when working with an incarcerated client versus a client in the community? What major challenges or barriers do you believe you would encounter in working with incarcerated clients, and how would you try to overcome those challenges/barriers? 4. Describe your experience with and knowledge of equity and privilege. Include your individual privileges, how they have helped and hindered you and how you work with them when there is a potential for them to cause bias and inequity. You are welcome to focus on various privileges, but please be sure to fully address your privilege related to race. 5. This position requires conducting suicide risk assessments. Tell us about your experience with assessing clients for suicide. What are the basic elements of a suicide risk assessment? How would you ensure the safety of an incarcerated client who is actively suicidal? 6. What would the key elements of your mental health assessment be for an incarcerated client you are meeting with for the first time? How would you document this? Please mention if you would use any special format for yourclinical documentation.
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Mental Health Consultant

Interviewed at Multnomah County Health Department

3.6
Aug 22, 2023

1. Please tell us about yourself and discuss your knowledge, education, and experience working with clients experiencing a mental health crisis, a MH disorder and/or, a severe and persistent mental illness. Include your level of experience working with incarcerated clients and/or justice involved clients, and where you gained this experience. 2. Please discuss your knowledge and experience working with a team, a challenge you faced while working with a team, and how you overcame those challenges. 3. How would your therapeutic approach differ when working with an incarcerated client versus a client in the community? What major challenges or barriers do you believe you would encounter in working with incarcerated clients, and how would you try to overcome those challenges/barriers? 4. Describe your experience with and knowledge of equity and privilege. Include your individual privileges, how they have helped and hindered you and how you work with them when there is a potential for them to cause bias and inequity. You are welcome to focus on various privileges, but please be sure to fully address your privilege related to race. 5. This position requires conducting suicide risk assessments. Tell us about your experience with assessing clients for suicide. What are the basic elements of a suicide risk assessment? How would you ensure the safety of an incarcerated client who is actively suicidal? 6. What would the key elements of your mental health assessment be for an incarcerated client you are meeting with for the first time? How would you document this? Please mention if you would use any special format for yourclinical documentation.

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