Drug And Alcohol Addiction Counsellor
Drug And Alcohol Addiction Counsellor
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Job Description
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..
Top 25 specific things you need to know
As a Drug And Alcohol Addiction Counsellor, you will need to master following:
- accept own accountability
- apply quality standards in social services
- 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
- 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
- have emotional intelligence
- human psychological development
- maintain a non-emotional involvement
- maintain records of work with service users
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- promote inclusion
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- use motivational incentives in addiction counselling
Top 26 general things you need to know
More generally, a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor is also versed in:
- adolescent psychological development
- apply socially just working principles
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- counselling methods
- dependency on drugs
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in organisation
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote human rights
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide social counselling
- psychological theories
- psychology
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- social justice
- social sciences
- supervision of persons
- support the positiveness of youths
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
Other things it helps to know to be an excellent drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
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Drug And Alcohol Addiction Counsellor (0-2 Yrs Exp.)
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Prereqs Technology Pvt.Ltd
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California
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$250 - $800 / month
Full Time
Urgent
Private
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