drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
Drug and alcohol addiction counsellors provide assistance and counselling to individuals and families dealing with drug and alcohol addictions, monitoring their progress, advocating for them, performing crisis interventions and group therapy. They also assist the persons with the consequences of their addictions which can be unemployment, physical or mental disorders and poverty. Drug and alcohol addiction counsellors may also prepare educational programs for high-risk populations.
Also called: drug and alcohol addiction counselor, substance abuse counsellor, addictions counsellor, drug and alcohol addiction social counsellor, drug and alcohol worker, alcohol counsellor, drug counsellor
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- optional skills
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Essential skills
51- accept own accountability
- adolescent psychological development
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assess social service users' situation
- assess the development of youth
- behavioural therapy
- build helping relationship with social service users
- client-centred counselling
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- counselling methods
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- dependency on drugs
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have emotional intelligence
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- human psychological development
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain a non-emotional involvement
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote human rights
- promote inclusion
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide social counselling
- psychological theories
- psychology
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- social justice
- social sciences
- supervision of persons
- support the positiveness of youths
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- use motivational incentives in addiction counselling
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