Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
What They Do: 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 ManagerClinical Social WorkerClinical TherapistClinicianCounselorLicensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)Mental Health TherapistSocial WorkerTherapist
Resource Details
Abilities
| Name | description |
|---|---|
| Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
| Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
| Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
| Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
| Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
| Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
| Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
| Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
