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  • Demonstrate well-developed clinical skills, techniques, and approaches consistent with national skills standards as outlined by the Council for Stand in Human Services Education (CSHSE), Community Support Skills Standards (CSSS), Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS), and the International Credentialing and Reciprocity Consortium (ICRC).
  • Describe historical overview of confluence of factors that shaped institutional and direct professional service delivery models with clients & communities, including but no limited to bio-psycho-social, economic, political, and legal issues
  • Provide accurate written and 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 Association 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 the skills involved in screening, orienting, assessing, crisis intervention, case management, treatment planning, documentation, consultation with other professionals, and appropriate referral of clients and families.
  • 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 the delivery of care