Competencies

Question 1

Competencies are:

Answer 1

• Essential skills
• Knowledge
• Attitudes
• Values
• Specific
• Measurable

Question 2

Technical Competencies

Answer 2

• Considered “hard skills” of counselling
  1. Understanding substance use
  2. Understanding concurrent conditions
  3. Case management
  4. referral
  5. community development
  6. counselling
  7. crisis intervention
  8. family and social support
  9. group facilitation
  10. medications
  11. outreach
  12. prevention and health promotion
  13. program development, implementation and evaluation
  14. record keeping and documentation
  15. screening and assessment
  16. trauma and violence informed care
  17. treatment planning

Question 3

Behavioural Competencies

Answer 3

1. adaptability/flexibility
2. analytical thinking and decision making
3. person-centered change
4. person service orientation
5. collaboration and network building
6. continuous learning
7. creativity and innovation
8. developing others
9. diversity and cultural responsiveness
10. effective communication
11. ethical conduct and professionalism
12. interpersonal rapport
13. leadership
14. planning and organizing
15. self-care
16. self management
17. self-motivation and drive
18. teamwork and cooperation

Question 4

cultural competency

Answer 4

• Be open and self-aware
• Understand yourself and work to understand those different from you
• Engage in supportive interactions
• Recognize the prejudice that exists and that you need to be the fish that sees the water you swim in
• We all have cultural misperceptions and stereotypes that we are unaware of
• Engage in continuous self-reflection
• Appreciating that you cannot know everything about every group nor should you expect yourself to
• Thus, your learning about others never ends

Question 5

the inclusion continuum

Answer 5

1. cultual destructiveness
2. cultural incapacity
3. cultural blindness
4. cultural precompetence
5. cultural competence
6. cultural proficiency