Social and Human Service Assistants

What They Do: Assist other social and human service providers in providing client services in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, or social work, including support for families. May assist clients in identifying and obtaining available benefits and social and community services. May assist social workers with developing, organizing, and conducting programs to prevent and resolve problems relevant to substance abuse, human relationships, rehabilitation, or dependent care.

Also Called: Addictions Counselor AssistantAdvocateClinical AssistantResidential Care AssistantSocial Services AideSocial Services AssistantSocial Work AssistantSocial Work AssociateSocial Worker Assistant

Resource Details

Abilities

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Oral ExpressionThe ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Deductive ReasoningThe ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Oral ComprehensionThe ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Problem SensitivityThe 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.
Speech ClarityThe ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Written ComprehensionThe ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Written ExpressionThe ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Speech RecognitionThe ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Fluency of IdeasThe ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Inductive ReasoningThe ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).