Breakout Thinkers
Fred Brevard Jr. ,
Psych MD
What was your path to mental healthcare?
I started as a mentor working with clients diagnoses with Mental Health disorders. I progressed continuing my education and moved to being a Mental Health provider working with the same population to include clients diagnosis with Substance Abuse disorders.
How will this scholarship help you?
This scholarship will help me tremendously to gain the skills and insight needed to continue learning innovated approaches to offering psychological services.
What are your academic and/or career goals?
My academic goals in to continue working on my graduate degree in psychology to have enhanced knowledge to continue assisting those diagnosis with mental health diagnosis. My career goals will be to continue working as a direct care provider and be able to train, teach, and mentor others.
What does “exceptional patient care” mean to you?
Exceptional patient care to me means working diligently to offer and provider the highest level of services to a client, and their support system. This requires to have the best interest of the client in mind and respecting what their individual goals are and realistic approaches to achieve them.