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Basic Counseling Skills For Addiction Professionals: Curriculum 4

This document outlines Module 7 of a curriculum on basic counseling skills for addiction professionals. The module focuses on teaching clients skills to manage their recovery. It discusses guidelines for effective skills training, such as teaching purposefully and step-by-step. Specific skills covered include refusal skills, time management, thoughtfulness techniques, and problem-solving. Participants will prepare presentations on guidelines for skills training and do demonstrations teaching different skills. They will also practice teaching skills through partner exercises. The overall goal is for addiction professionals to learn how to coach clients in developing abilities to achieve and maintain long-term recovery.

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Basic Counseling Skills For Addiction Professionals: Curriculum 4

This document outlines Module 7 of a curriculum on basic counseling skills for addiction professionals. The module focuses on teaching clients skills to manage their recovery. It discusses guidelines for effective skills training, such as teaching purposefully and step-by-step. Specific skills covered include refusal skills, time management, thoughtfulness techniques, and problem-solving. Participants will prepare presentations on guidelines for skills training and do demonstrations teaching different skills. They will also practice teaching skills through partner exercises. The overall goal is for addiction professionals to learn how to coach clients in developing abilities to achieve and maintain long-term recovery.

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International Centre for Certification and Education of Addiction Professionals (ICCE)

The Universal Treatment Curriculum for Substance Use Disorders (UTC)

Curriculum 4

Basic Counseling Skills


for Addiction Professionals

MODULE 7 - TEACHING CLIENTS SKILLS

Skills Training
Systematically

teaches clients specific skills:

Purposeful
Orderly
Step-by-step procedures

Coaches

clients to manage
their recovery

7.2
1.2

Skills Training (continued)


Learning

new skills is critical to foster clients


abilities to achieve and maintain recovery
Learning skills can help clients throughout their
lives

7.3
1.3

Module 7 Learning Objectives


List

and describe at least 5 guidelines for


effective skills training
Describe and demonstrate teaching refusal skills
Describe and demonstrate teaching time
management

7.4
1.4

Module 7 - Learning Objectives


(continued)
Describe

and demonstrate teaching


thoughtfulness techniques
Describe and demonstrate teaching problemsolving techniques

7.5
1.5

Small-group Presentations: Principles


and Guidelines for Effective Skills
Training
Resource

Page 7.1: Principles and Guidelines for


Effective Skills Training
Read your groups assigned topics
Prepare a 3- to 5-minute presentation on each
topic
Be creative!

7.6
1.6

Break
15 minutes

7.7
1.7

Small-group Demonstrations: Skills


Introduce

your skill topic: Why is it important?


Prepare a teaching demonstration:
Use Resource Page 8.1: Principles and Guidelines
for Effective Skills Training
You can include parts of more than one session with
a client (part of an initial teaching session followed by
a later session to demonstrate follow up, for
example)
You may want to demonstrate a way in which the skill
could be taught in a group setting

7.8
1.8

Lunch
60 minutes

7.9
1.9

Partner Exercise: Practice


Select

a partner
Select a skill you want to practice
Decide who will be the counselor first
Practice for 5 to 10 minutes
Switch roles
Switch roles and skills as often as you want.

7.10
1.10

International Centre for Certification and Education of Addiction Professionals (ICCE)


The Universal Treatment Curriculum for Substance Use Disorders (UTC)

Curriculum 4

Basic Counseling Skills


for Addiction Professionals

MODULE 7 - TEACHING CLIENTS SKILLS

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