From marriage counsellor to drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
43 of the 51 essential skills of a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor are already essential for a marriage counsellor — about 84% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 43
- skills carry over
- 8
- would be new
- 84%
- of the target job covered
- 51
- essential skills of a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
What a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor does
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.
What carries over
43 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- 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
- 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
- promote human rights
- promote inclusion
- promote social change
- provide social counselling
- psychological theories
- psychology
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- social justice
and 3 more
What would be new
8 skillsEssential for a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor and not for a marriage counsellor. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from marriage counsellor
2 roles- bereavement counsellor43 skills in common
- family planning counsellor43 skills in common
← marriage counsellordrug and alcohol addiction counsellor →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.