Interventionists as Collaborators

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• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Specialists

  • Description: ABA consultants use science and the principles of behavior to produce socially significant behavior in applied, everyday settings changing the trajectory and enhancing an individual’s quality of life. This could be done by rearranging the environment, changing motivation, or through prompting, fading and shaping. ABA isn’t just an early intervention program. Principles and technologies can be used across populations and severity levels, in both comprehensive and focused programs. May specialize in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) helping individuals develop skills, reduce restrictive behaviors and achieve goals, but ABA can also occur across other disciplines such as nutrition, sports management etc.

    • board certified behavior analysts

    • autism specialists

    • positive behavior support facilitators

    • behavior analysts

    • organizational behavior management

• Advocate

  • Description: Advocates for individuals, parents, families, friends and agencies by providing general, financial, system, educational, legal, medical, disability, victim advice and support.

    • Self-Advocate: Individual

    • Individual Advocate: parents, families, friends

    • Formal Advocate: agencies

• Audiologist

  • Description: Assesses and manages disorders of hearing, balance, and neural systems specializing in hearing loss.

    • audiologists

• Case Manager

  • Description: handles case assignments, writes person support plans, review progress, identify resources, achieve wellness and autonomy

    • targeted case manager

• Play Therapist

  • Description: Certification for mastered level counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychologist, social worker, and psychiatrist. Play therapists complete 150 hours of documented instruction and 350 direct client contract hours in play therapy, supporting children with trauma and counseling through play, creative activities and storytelling.

    • licensed registered play therapist,

    • supervisors or school based- registered play therapist

• Medical Team

  • Family Doctor

    • Description: A doctor who provides general medical treatment for people in a particular area

      • family medicine doctor

      • primary care team

      • pediatrician

      • nurse practitioner

  • Diagnosticians

    • Description: Creates a complete and accurate medication list, by integrating counseling and wellness, to address significant medical needs

      • psychiatrist

      • licensed medical doctor

      • pharmacists

      • psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner

      • psychiatric nurse

• Speech Pathologist

  • Description: Skilled in assessing communication, sciences and disorders, working with children and adults on speech, language, cognitive or social-communication problems, specializing in articulation disorders, dysphagia, language disorders, fluency disorders, voice etc.

    • speech language pathologist (SLP-CCC)

• Occupational Therapist

  • Description: Helps people with health issues that affect everyday activities and life skills.

    • occupational therapist

    • licensed, certified stroke rehab specialist,

    • certified brain injury specialist

• Marriage and Family Therapist

  • Description: Focus on mental health of individuals, couples and families

    • licensed marriage and family therapist

• Pastoral Counselors

  • Combines counseling with christian beliefs assists with grief, stress, life transitions, improve communication, resolve conflict, and build on goals, develop a deeper understanding of faith, guides those struggling with purpose and meaning

    • certified pastoral counselor

    • priest

• Physical Therapists

  • Description: treats body disorder, helps to manage illnesses and injuries of the musculoskeletal system and neurological system

    • PT

• Probation Officers

  • Description: Investigate and supervise offenders who the course have released to the community on probation, parole or supervised release

    • probation officer

• Psychologist

  • Description: Uses advanced degree and professional training to conduct psychological assessments to diagnose, evaluate, and treat mental health conditions as well as provide psychotherapy (talk therapy) to help people cope with relationships, life, and mental health conditions

    • psychologist

    • counseling psychologist

• Social Worker

  • Description: Addresses societal problems by working with families facing poverty, addiction, racism, LGBTQIA2S+, homelessness, trauma, protects children who are at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation, supports families by assisting with benefits, provides counseling copes with mental health and emotions, connects resources, develops case plans, coordinates services, intervenes to prevent children from harm, develop or implement policy and advocate for vulnerable populations

    • school social worker

    • healthcare social worker

    • licensed clinical social worker

    • child Welfare Social worker

• Teacher

  • Description: A person who teaches at a school, and often collaborates with other specialists.

    • teacher (elementary, middle school, high school)

    • ESL teacher

    • reading specialist

    • special education teacher