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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.

Essential Skills and Competencies

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  • • Accept Own Accountability • 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 • Build Helping Relationship with Social Service Users • Communicate Professionally with Colleagues in Other Fields • Communicate with Social Service Users • Cooperate at Inter-professional Level • 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 • Handle Conflicts • Have Emotional Intelligence • Help Clients Make Decisions During Counselling Sessions • 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 Organisation • 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 • Refer Social Service Users • Relate Empathetically • Report on Social Development • Respond to Individuals' Extreme Emotions • Support the Positiveness of Youths • Undertake Continuous Professional Development in Social Work • Use Motivational Incentives in Addiction Counselling

Knowledge

  • • Adolescent Psychological Development • Behavioural Therapy • Client-centred Counselling • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy • Counselling Methods • Dependency on Drugs • Human Psychological Development • Legal Requirements in the Social Sector • Psychological Theories • Psychology • Reflexion • Social Justice • Social Sciences • Supervision of Persons

Alternative Related Job

  • • Substance Abuse Counsellor • Addictions Counsellor • Drug and Alcohol Addiction Social Counsellor • Drug and Alcohol Worker • Alcohol Counsellor • Drug Counsellor

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