| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Addiction Social Worker |
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
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- Counsel clients in individual and group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental and physical illness, poverty, unemployment, or physical abuse.
- Refer patient, client, or family to community resources for housing or treatment to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness, following through to ensure service efficacy.
- Assist clients in adhering to treatment plans, such as setting up appointments, arranging for transportation to appointments, and providing support.
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| Corrections Treatment Specialist |
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
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- Write reports describing offenders' progress.
- Conduct prehearing and presentencing investigations and testify in court regarding offenders' backgrounds and recommended sentences and sentencing conditions.
- Inform offenders or inmates of requirements of conditional release, such as office visits, restitution payments, or educational and employment stipulations.
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| Addiction Counselor |
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
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- Act as liaisons between clients and medical staff.
- Intervene as advocate for clients or patients to resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
- Counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting clients or patients.
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