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Where a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Drug and alcohol addiction counsellors provide assistance and counselling to individuals and families dealing with drug and alcohol addictions, monitoring their progress, advocating for them, performing crisis interventions and group therapy. They also assist the persons with the consequences of their addictions which can be unemployment, physical or mental disorders and poverty. Drug and alcohol addiction counsellors may also prepare educational programs for high-risk populations.

Also known as drug and alcohol worker, drug and alcohol addiction counselor, alcohol counsellor, substance abuse counsellor, addictions counsellor, drug and alcohol addiction social counsellor, drug counsellor.

Professionals 54 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: social counsellor, 74%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social counsellor 74% covered social pedagogue 61% covered community health worker 50% covered substance misuse worker 47% covered residential home young people… 45% covered drug and alcohol addictio… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from drug and alcohol addiction counsellor, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A drug and alcohol addiction counsellor needs 51 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • use motivational incentives in addiction counselling assisting and caring
  • dependency on drugs health and welfare
  • assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring
  • respond to individuals' extreme emotions assisting and caring
  • encourage counselled clients to examine themselves communication, collaboration and creativity
  • help clients make decisions during counselling sessions assisting and caring
  • reflexion social sciences, journalism and information
  • cognitive behavioural therapy social sciences, journalism and information
  • have emotional intelligence assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Drug and alcohol addiction counsellor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.