Addictive Studies 4 Essentials of Chemical Dependency Counseling Perspective Jacy Patt
Basic Chemical dependency counseling skills are understanding addiction, treatment knowledge, application to practice, professional readiness, and clinical evaluation. Others include screening, assessment, treatment planning, referral, case management/service coordination, implementing the treatment plan, consulting assessment and treatment planning. Possible assessments evaluation instruments are: substance use history, family dynamics, work history, psychological concerns, physical and mental status. Also, educational and life skills, current legal status, use of community resources, and more.
Core elements for individual counseling are rapport, empathy, genuineness, attentiveness, respect, immediacy, concreteness, and warmth. Counselor skills go together with the elements of counseling and guide the counselor in the therapy process. Listening, reflecting, questioning, confronting, self-disclosing, interpreting, and clarifying are among these skills.
Documentation is the recording of the screening and intake process and the assessment and treatment plan as well as the preparation of written reports, clinical progress notes, discharge summaries and other clinical-related data. Successful charts should be notable for the thorough and accurate charting of all pertinent aspects of patient contact.
Responsibility to find a good supervisor, meeting their training needs, is up to the counseling student. They should be monitored with record keeping, counseling activity, referral, assessment and diagnosis, ethics and professional issues, presentations, evaluations and issues of diversity. Different combinations of supervision include lecturer, teacher, ease reviewer, collegial-peer, monitor, and therapist.
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