HMSV 2240 - Counseling in the Substance Abuse Field

1. Adapt practice to a range of modalities and treatment settings, taking into consideration a variety of health plans and payment options for specific clients.
2. Apply professional and ethical obligations as relates to individuals, cultures and language diversity.
3. Apply standards of clinical evaluation, including establishing rapport, data gathering and screening, analysis of substance abuse implications, treatment possibilities, initial actions, and docuentation of findings and treatment recommendations.
4. Use data to determine the appropriate referral service to professional, agencies, community programs or other resource, and clearly and specifically explain the referral service’s role in treatment and contact information.
5. Apply situation-specific service coordination, including relevant intake information, treatment options and insurance coverage, ongoing treatment and recovery options, ongoing communication with outsides resources, and documentation of all processes.
6. Create a healthy, helpful, professional and ethical relationship with clients and client advocates that places client knowledge, skills and attitudes at the forefront of possibilities for recovery, and formally and informally educate them on the causes, treatment and recovery options available for substance use and abuse.
7. Provide formal and informal education to clients and client advocates in substance abuse awareness, prevention and recovery programs.
8.  Apply principles of substance abuse disorders to individuals and groups to analyze the warning signs, symptoms and implications of the risk for, or resilience to, psychoactive use disorders, and the potential for prevention, treatment and recovery.