drug and alcohol addiction counsellor

ESCO occupation · 52 essential, 2 optional skills. Click a skill to find jobs that mention it.

Essential skills

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

Optional & specialised skills

Other matches: substance misuse worker · social counsellor · housing support worker · benefits advice worker · educational counsellor

Coming next: live skill demand and trends — how often each skill actually appears in job ads — arrive with the EURES / Cedefop integration. The skills above are the canonical requirements for the role from the EU ESCO taxonomy.