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Human Services
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- Engage members from families of origin, families of choice, created families, and other potentially supportive significant others, as appropriate, desired, and directed by clients and client systems.
- Participate at all levels of practice as a member of interprofessional and integrated teams (including other professions or disciplines, paraprofessionals, peer support, community and other natural and indigenous support systems), where all parts collaborate to identify and engage individuals and others in need of substance-related services and to establish and meet client system goals.
- Promote policies that improve prevention efforts, increase treatment capacity, build recovery capital, and support multiple pathways to recovery across systems.
- Engage people with lived experience in the process of policy development, implementation, and evaluation.
- Demonstrate understanding of evidence-based approaches for diagnosis, screening, assessment, and treatment of SUDs.
- Apply the hierarchy of evidence to compile, synthesize, and apply substance use research to inform treatment approaches through effective dissemination and implementation strategies.
- Engage in Policy Practice
- Recognize the role of participants in research on substance use. Use research in practice that reflects the dignity and autonomy of participants in substance use research and abides by the principles of ethical research. Recognize personal biases when engaging in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
- Demonstrate and role model professional communication in practice situations, including using person-first, non-stigmatizing language and treat clients with SUD equitably without applying personal bias, stigma, or discrimination.
- Collect and organize data and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.
- Use the most current, evidence-based and culturally informed knowledge to SUD practice, research, and policy development and implementation.
- Address substance use on multiple levels, including globally, and understand how colonialization, imperialism, oppression, and community, historical, and intergenerational traumas promote oppressive practice
- Demonstrate the ability to engage all clients in the assessment process by using interviewing skills.
- Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- Apply evaluation processes and outcomes to inform measurement-based care, continuous quality improvement, fidelity monitoring, supervision, and innovation to support those challenged by unhealthy substance use and associated risk behaviors across practice settings.
- Demonstrate knowledge of resource accessibility and policies at the local, state, national, and global levels.
- Apply understanding of SUD theories and models to client systems and circumstances.
- Foster communication, establish and maintain rapport, and attend to the language that is used (i.e., nonstigmatizing, non-labeling, person-centered) at all levels of practice and throughout the engagement process.
- Recognize the repercussions of substance use for individuals, families, organizations, and communities.
- Select and implement group-based interventions to prevent or reduce substance use problems, including referrals to community-based peer support and mutual help groups.
- Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice
- Intervene to promote and transform current systems to those that include a culture of recovery, social justice, and equity at the social service, public health, and criminal justice levels through community, tribal, national, and global policy interventions.
- Identify and analyze your own values, biases, and assumptions and how they can affect the relationship with a client coping with substance use or behavioral addictions.
- Apply theoretical and empirical knowledge of the complex biopsychosocial factors that contribute to problematic substance use behaviors to deliver culturally sensitive, holistic, multilevel intervention and prevention programs.
- Identify and use appropriate evaluation methods to measure practice processes and outcomes with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities and advocate to discontinue ineffective practices, programs, and policies.
- Evaluate the impact of social conditions on substance use behaviors and advocate for social change and social policies that will prevent and reduce substance use problems.
- Implement evidence-supported and culturally relevant family interventions to ameliorate substance misuse in the family and the impact of substance misuse on the family system.
- Assess mental health, trauma, adversities, occurring disorders, and other contributing factors.
- Demonstrate the use of measurement instruments that are culturally and developmentally appropriate for screening and assessment of SUDs.
- Translate and disseminate research and evaluation outcomes to increase efficacy, monitor effectiveness, confirm fidelity, and promote sustainability of evidence-based substance use practices, programs, and policies.
- Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- Evaluate and adapt to how substance use, co-occurring problems, intersecting identities, and other diverse experiences influence engagement, disengagement, and reengagement processes.
- Select appropriate intervention strategies based on the assessment, research knowledge, and values and preferences of clients and constituencies.
- Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
- Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- Use self-reflection and self-regulation to manage personal values & biases relative to substance use and misuse.
- Articulate how a person’s social location, inclusive of their cultural customs and worldviews, informs their experiences with substance use.
- Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice
- Consult with supervisors, mentors, and colleagues to enrich self-awareness and self-reflection while practicing multicultural reflexivity to balance the dynamics of power and privilege inherent in the social work position.
- Use a strengths-based perspective that facilitates understanding of substance use and its impact in the diverse situations of individuals, families, and communities, driven by their unique stories.
- Identify evidence-supported interventions for substance use problems relevant to the client’s strengths, needs, co-occurring conditions, and behaviors and implement the best practice option.
- Demonstrate use of evidence-informed, -supported, or -based engagement practices appropriate to the situation, readiness to engage, and level of practice.
- Make ethical decisions by applying the standards of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics, comparing state codes and other applicable ethical codes of conduct.
- Identify and categorize signs and symptoms of SUDs.
- Practice cultural humility when supporting clients with substance use challenges, which includes a lifelong process of openness, effort, self-awareness, and exploring and learning from similarities and differences.
- Use substance use–relevant theory, research literature, and practice experience to inform scientific inquiry and practice evaluation and continually critique and evaluate the effectiveness of theoretical frameworks, psychometric instruments, and approaches that explain or predict, assess, and treat SUDs.
- Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior
- Advocate for changes in and creation of alcohol and other drug policies that improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities that are at risk for or experiencing problems in living related to substance use.
- Demonstrate an awareness of how social identity, privilege, and marginalized status can be affected by the systems they are part of at the individual, family, and community levels.
- Use research to contextualize evidence-based practice and policy approaches, depending on the substance use setting, developmental stage or phase, and cultural background, seeking input from the populations directly affected by substance use to inform research and guide its derivatives.
- Maintain awareness of laws and policies at the organizational, local, state, federal, and global level related to prevention, treatment, and recovery.
- Advance policies that support the foundation of evidence to inform social work for people with SUDs.
- Demonstrate awareness of the economic and political drivers of substance use and SUDs that are fueled by oppression of disenfranchised and marginalized groups.
- Plan, conduct, and participate in research and evaluation to continuously improve practices, programs, and policies affecting unhealthy substance use and associated risk behaviors among clients and constituents.
- Value self-determination in advocating for people assigned to the criminal justice system, rather than the health system, as diversion programs apply systematic bias in who receives treatment versus who goes to jail.
- Recognize one’s limitations in skills, knowledge, and abilities and work in cooperation with interdisciplinary SUD providers in the trajectory of care.
