Substance abuse counselors assist their clients at crucial junctures during their recovery process. While counseling, it’s important for all involved to be watchful. Those who are improving after substance abuse and/or addiction are sometimes the most vulnerable to crisis. Successful crisis intervention is like stopping a domino effect, and it can even save a life….
Case management is one of the core functions that substance abuse counselors must understand intimately. You might say the counselor’s job revolves heavily around it. At its core, case management is defined as the activities that bring services, service providers (or agencies), resources, and people together. The objective is to use this gathering of sources…
It’s the bread and butter of a substance abuse counselor’s job. It’s the major component of their clients’ treatment plans that leaves a lasting impact. It’s the sixth core function, and it’s called Counseling. According to Dictionary.com, counseling is a noun and a verb meaning to give “professional guidance” with the goal of “resolving personal…
Treatment planning is the fifth core function of drug and alcohol counseling. It is developed and revised after the initial and ongoing assessments. The goal of a treatment plan is identifying and ranking the problems a client needs to see resolved and establishing an agreed upon set of immediate and long-term goals. The plan will…