- Demonstrate development of basic clinical skills, techniques, and approaches consistent with Council for Standards in Human Services, Community Support Skills Standards, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, and International Credentialing and Reciprocity Consortium. To include screening, assessment, orientation, crisis intervention, case management, treatment planning, documentation, consultation with other professionals, and appropriate referral of clients and families.
- Describe historical overview of confluence of factors that shaped institutional and direct professional service delivery models with clients & communities, including, but not limited to bio-psycho-social, economic, political, and legal issues.
- Provide accurate written & oral, clinical assessments of general health and welfare of clients, their families, and communities guided by ethical standards set forth by the Council for Standards in Human Services Education, and the National Associate of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors.
- Analyze the effect of the injustices caused by prejudicial and/or discriminatory treatment as they pertain to individuals, families, groups, and institutions, (e.g. race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ageism, social class, immigrants, et al.)
- Demonstrate a professional level of comfort and expertise with the mechanisms involved in the administrative aspects necessary to deliver services provided by human services agencies and their interacting institutions (e.g. Health Maintenance Organizations, Department of Children and Families, courts, schools et al.). And apply knowledge, skills using data and other management systems to develop/improve administrative services involved in delivery of care.