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

Technology Skills

NameExample
Electronic mail software
  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Presentation software
  • Information presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Medical software
  • Client records software
  • Medical condition coding software
Internet browser software
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Netscape Navigator
Document management software
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Microsoft SharePoint
Desktop publishing software
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • Microsoft Publisher
Office suite software
  • Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
  • Microsoft Office software
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word
Data base user interface and query software
  • Database software