Mental Health & Substance Abuse Social Workers
Assess and treat individuals with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and/or other drugs. Activities may include individual and group therapy, crisis intervention, case management, client advocacy, prevention, and education.
Also called: Case Manager, Clinical Social Worker, Mental Health Therapist, Social Worker
Knowledge:
- psychology
- sociology and anthropology
- customer service
- administrative services
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
- understanding people's reactions
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- see hidden patterns
- quickly know what you are looking at
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Concern for Others
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Stress Tolerance
- Self Control
- Adaptability/Flexibility
Technology:
- Medical condition coding software
- Social Work Software ClientTouch
Internet browser software
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Netscape Navigator
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
Education:
certificate after master's
