drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
ISCO: 2635. Skills: 54. Essential: 51.
Essential skills
- 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