Psychologist - Youth Mental Health

Summary of Duties

Under the responsibility of the Chief of Administration for Youth Mental Health Programs, the person:

• Assesses children, adolescents, and families, including crisis evaluations (suicidal ideations, acting out);
• Conducts cognitive and affective evaluations, when necessary;
• Provides short-term individual and family therapeutic follow-ups - including cognitive-behavioral, brief psychodynamic, family, and systemic therapies;
• Conducts group therapies (for young adolescents or parent/family groups);
• Provides therapeutic follow-ups in parent-child dyads;
• Supervises first-line professionals without training in youth mental health as well as psychology interns;
• Participates and develops training programs within youth teams;
• Supports partners, such as the troubled youth team, school, and hospitals, in their interventions;
• Performs any other tasks related to the demands of their immediate supervisor.