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Approaches and Competencies

Your client, George, has an addiction to gambling. The gambling has gone on for years and it is now affecting George both personally and professionally. George has gambled away his children's college savings and may soon lose his job because of chronic absenteeism. His wife has threatened to leave him. In addition to the financial consequences, George also acknowledges feelings of depression and anxiety.
Think of how you might approach treating George. It is essential for addiction professionals to provide the best treatment approach for their clients. Although there is not one "standard" approach to any type of treatment, there are approaches and competencies that are considered best practices and can improve your effectiveness as an addiction professional. As an addiction counselor, you often work as part of a team of helping professionals to treat clients such as George. You must demonstrate competencies as an addiction counselor and constantly work to improve upon these competencies.
This week, you explore the strengths and limitations of using a team approach to addiction treatment. In addition, you examine addiction professional competencies and how to develop opportunities that may contribute to the strengthening of these competencies.
Learning Objectives

Students will:

Question 1: Evaluate the team approach to addiction treatment

Question 2: Analyze contributions of addiction treatment team members

Question 3: Evaluate competencies of addiction professionals

Question 4: Analyze development opportunities to strengthen addiction competencies