3.7 KiB
3.7 KiB
Competences — drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5d758e75-a116-485a-b800-5db08ffd3ba1).
Essential
- accept own accountability (skill/competence)
- adolescent psychological development (knowledge)
- apply quality standards in social services (skill/competence)
- apply socially just working principles (skill/competence)
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions (skill/competence)
- assess social service users' situation (skill/competence)
- assess the development of youth (skill/competence)
- behavioural therapy (knowledge)
- build helping relationship with social service users (skill/competence)
- client-centred counselling (knowledge)
- cognitive behavioural therapy (knowledge)
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields (skill/competence)
- communicate with social service users (skill/competence)
- cooperate at inter-professional level (skill/competence)
- counselling methods (knowledge)
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities (skill/competence)
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases (skill/competence)
- dependency on drugs (knowledge)
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves (skill/competence)
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices (skill/competence)
- have emotional intelligence (skill/competence)
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions (skill/competence)
- human psychological development (knowledge)
- legal requirements in the social sector (knowledge)
- listen actively (skill/competence)
- maintain a non-emotional involvement (skill/competence)
- maintain records of work with service users (skill/competence)
- maintain the trust of service users (skill/competence)
- manage social crisis (skill/competence)
- manage stress in the work place (skill/competence)
- organise relapse prevention (skill/competence)
- perform therapy sessions (skill/competence)
- prepare youths for adulthood (skill/competence)
- promote human rights (skill/competence)
- promote inclusion (skill/competence)
- promote social change (skill/competence)
- promote the safeguarding of young people (skill/competence)
- provide social counselling (skill/competence)
- psychological theories (knowledge)
- psychology (knowledge)
- refer social service users (skill/competence)
- reflexion (knowledge)
- relate empathetically (skill/competence)
- report on social development (skill/competence)
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions (skill/competence)
- social justice (knowledge)
- social sciences (knowledge)
- supervision of persons (knowledge)
- support the positiveness of youths (skill/competence)
- undertake continuous professional development in social work (skill/competence)
- use motivational incentives in addiction counselling (skill/competence)
Optional
- clinical social work (knowledge)
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse (skill/competence)
- sophrology (knowledge)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 46 ads, as of 2026-07-11)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- treatment planning — 61 %
- clinical documentation — 33 %
- crisis intervention — 30 %
- case management — 28 %
- individual counseling — 26 %
- relapse prevention — 22 %
- group counseling — 22 %
- discharge planning — 20 %
Responsibilities
- treatment plan development — 20 %