drug and alcohol addiction counsellor (EN)
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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.
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Source aliases (EN)
- drug and alcohol addiction counselor
- substance abuse counsellor
- addictions counsellor
- drug and alcohol addiction social counsellor
- drug and alcohol worker
- alcohol counsellor
- drug counsellor
Skills and knowledge
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- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- provide social counselling
- counselling methods
- assess the development of youth
- apply quality standards in social services
- legal requirements in the social sector
- client-centred counselling
- supervision of persons
- support the positiveness of youths
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- social sciences
- use motivational incentives in addiction counselling
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- reflexion
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- promote social change
- promote human rights
- prepare youths for adulthood
- assess social service users' situation
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- relate empathetically
- adolescent psychological development
- listen actively
- manage social crisis
- human psychological development
- perform therapy sessions
- apply socially just working principles
- promote inclusion
- maintain records of work with service users
- psychology
- behavioural therapy
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- report on social development
- organise relapse prevention
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- refer social service users
- communicate with social service users
- social justice
- maintain a non-emotional involvement
- psychological theories
- maintain the trust of service users
- have emotional intelligence
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- accept own accountability
- manage stress in the work place
- build helping relationship with social service users
- dependency on drugs
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