Posted: December 9th, 2014

The Person of the Counselor

The Person of the Counselor

Order Description

Identify at least two strengths you would bring to a counseling session with a client suffering from a substance abuse problem. For each, provide one example of a counseling situation in which it might manifest.
•Describe at least two potential challenges you might face in providing substance abuse counseling in light of your own attitudes and beliefs about substance abuse, addiction, and substance abuse counseling.
•Explain how you might address each of the challenges you described.
Based upon your field of interest, review the APA or ACA ethics codes. Consider how these codes may guide your work as a counselor.
•Review Sections 4 and 5 of the approach for treating drug addiction on the NIDA Web site. Reflect on the descriptions of counselor characteristics and the client-counselor relationship, and on your own characteristics and view of the treatment relationship in comparison to these.
•Evaluate your strengths and challenges in relation to potential work with substance abusers and how these might have an impact on your clients.
•Identify and consider any attitudes and beliefs you have regarding substance abuse, addiction, and substance abuse counseling.
•Consider how you might address the potential challenges related to your attitudes and beliefs as you work with substance abusers.

Resources to use:
Course Text: Substance Abuse Counseling

?Chapter 1, “Introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling” (pp. 1-26)
SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING: THEORY AND PRACTICE –

Author: STEVENS
Edition/Copyright: 2013
Publisher: PEARSON EDUCATION
ISBN/Bookstore Part Number: 978-0132615648

American Counseling Association (ACA). ACA Code of Ethics. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.counseling.org/docs/ethics/2014-aca-code-of-ethics.pdf?sfvrsn=4
•National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling: A Psychotherapeutic and Skills-Training Approach to the Treatment of Drug Addiction (Sections 4 and 5 only)
http://archives.drugabuse.gov/ADAC/ADAC13.htmll

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