I Have a Few Questions for Someone Who Is a Substance Abuse Treatment Professional of Any Kind.?

Question by Brock: I have a few questions for someone who is a substance abuse treatment professional of any kind.?
I am attending an addictions class at wiu and was hoping an abuse treatment proffesional could help me with an assighnment and answer a few questions.
My questions are:

1. Professional credentials (license, certification, training and background).
2. Demographics of the population server
3. Location of practice
4. Treatment philosophy
5.Preferred treatment format
6. What is the most difficult part of working with addicted persons?
7. What is the most rewarding part of working with addicted person?
8. What was the motivation for choosing this profession?
9. How does one prevent burn out working with this population

Best answer:

Answer by jannsody
I’m not a Certified Addiction Counselor (CAC), but they do need to get extensive clinical experience with an actual patient caseload (and passing a certification exam) before possibly getting a job as a CAC.

A lot of CACs are in recovery (from addiction) themselves. I believe that most CACs have a master’s degree in counseling or social work in addition to the certification in addiction counseling.

The professional organization “the association for addiction professionals” has more info re: certification and such: http://www.naadac.org/certification/credentials-a-endorsements

For more general info re: “substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors”: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/community-and-social-service/substance-abuse-and-behavioral-disorder-counselors.htm and can click on any of the headings for the various categories.

With regard to schooling for addiction counseling (or any course of study), please *avoid* those For-profit schools such as kaplan, argosy, strayer, everest, capella, ashworth, devry, grand canyon, penn foster, ashford, keiser, ITT tech, regis, university of phoenix, pima medical, excelsior, walden, colorado tech, stratford career, westwood and others. Their course credits usually do NOT transfer to other schools.

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