Behavioral Health Counselor-Inpatient Part-time 6pm to 630am
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 30, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about working on an inpatient behavioral health unit.
What they are checking: The posting is inpatient behavioral health counseling within a multidisciplinary team.
Twenty-four hours a week on twelve hour nights, six to half past six, every other weekend, at Woodstock. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: The posting states the whole pattern precisely.
What do you do after a shift that was hard?
What they are checking: Behavioral health work costs something, and having a way to carry it matters.
What would you do
A patient is escalating at three in the morning. Walk me through what you do.
What they are checking: The posting names intervening, stabilizing and managing acute crisis situations, and overnight is when it happens.
How do you de-escalate while keeping a patient's dignity intact?
What they are checking: The core skill, and how they describe it says whether they have done it.
What is thinner overnight on a behavioral health unit, and how do you work around it?
What they are checking: The posting is twelve hour nights, where medical and psychiatric backup is limited.
About the work
Walk me through screening and evaluating a request for service.
What they are checking: The posting names screening and evaluating requests for service.
How do you assess someone's strengths rather than only their problems?
What they are checking: The posting names assessing client needs, strengths, goals and resources.
How do you contribute to an individual plan in a team meeting?
What they are checking: The posting names working with an interdisciplinary team to review cases and develop plans.
How would you run a skills training group on an inpatient unit?
What they are checking: The posting names skills training groups and social rehabilitation among the services.
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