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Addiction Counseling Competencies
Competency 38:
Explain assessment findings to the client and significant others.
Knowledge
uX
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How to apply confidentiality rules and
regulations.
How to communicate assessment data in
understandable terms.
Factors affecting the client’s
comprehension of assessment data.
Roles and expectations of significant
others involved in treatment.
Skills
uX Summarizing and synthesizing assessment
results.
u Translating assessment information into
treatment goals and objectives.
u Evaluating the client’s comprehension of
assessment feedback.
u Communicating with the client in a manner
that is sensitive to the client’s age, developmental
level, gender, and racial and
ethnic culture.
u Communicating assessment findings to
interested parties within the bounds of
confidentiality rules and regulations and
practice standards.
Attitudes
XX Recognition of how biases influence communication
of assessment data and results.
u Recognition of the client’s right and need
to understand assessment results.
u Respect for the roles of others.
Uses of The Competencies
The Caribbean Basin and Hispanic (CBH) ATTC in Puerto Rico has translated The Competencies
into Spanish and has widely distributed it in Puerto Rico and the mainland. (The translation is posted
on the CBHATTC Web site, http://www.attcnetwork.org/regcenters/index_caribbeanbasin.asp.)
The curriculum of the Substance Abuse Graduate Program of the Universidad Central del Caribe was
based on The Competencies.
The Competencies has been used as a resource for trainers teaching workshops such as Clinical
Skills in Supervision, S.M.A.R.T., Treatment Planning, and Levels of Care in Substance Abuse.
Some community-based organizations have incorporated The Competencies into their inservice
trainings.
The Comisión Certificadora de Profesionales en Substancias Sicoactivas of Puerto Rico (certification
board) incorporated The Competencies into its certifications standards.
The Puerto Rico Drug Control Office used The Competencies to develop the Addiction Prevention
Specialist Licensure standards in Puerto Rico.
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