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Mental / Behavioral Health Social Worker

Mental / Behavioral Health Counselor

Healthcare Social Worker

Family / Behavioral Therapist

Family / School / General Social Worker

A Substance Abuse Counselor counsels people struggling with addictions to alcohol, drugs or other substances.  Assists clients in dealing with personal and professional problems related to substance abuse.  Collaborates with other health care and mental health care professionals to coordinate services for clients, and works with families of substance abusers.  May work in a clinic, health care facility or community based program, or work with clients referred through the criminal justice system.

Mental / Behavioral Health Case Manager

Case Manager

Mental / Behavioral Health Case Worker

Social / Human Services Specialist

Substance Abuse Counselor

Addiction is a biopsychosocial disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Despite the involvement of a number of psychosocial factors, a biological process—one that is induced by repeated exposure to an addictive stimulus—is the core pathology that drives the development and maintenance of an addiction, according to the "brain disease model" of addiction. However, some scholars who study addiction argue that the brain disease model is incomplete and misleading.

Addiction Treatment

The recovery model, recovery approach or psychological recovery is an approach to mental disorder or substance dependence that emphasizes and supports a person's potential for recovery. Recovery is generally seen in this model as a personal journey rather than a set outcome, and one that may involve developing hope, a secure base and sense of self, supportive relationships, empowerment, social inclusion, coping skills, and meaning. Recovery sees symptoms as a continuum of the norm rather than an aberration and rejects sane-insane dichotomy.

Addiction Recovery

Substance Abuse Assessments

Addiction medicine is a medical subspecialty that deals with the diagnosis, prevention, evaluation, treatment, and recovery of persons with addiction, of those with substance-related and addictive disorders, and of people who show unhealthy use of substances including alcohol, nicotine, prescription medicine and other illicit and licit drugs. The medical subspecialty often crosses over into other areas, since various aspects of addiction fall within the fields of public health, psychology, social work, mental health counseling, psychiatry, and internal medicine, among others. Incorporated within the specialty are the processes of detoxification, rehabilitation, harm reduction, abstinence-based treatment, individual and group therapies, oversight of halfway houses, treatment of withdrawal-related symptoms, acute intervention, and long term therapies designed to reduce likelihood of relapse. Some specialists, primarily those who also have expertise in family medicine or internal medicine, also provide treatment for disease states commonly associated with substance use, such as hepatitis and HIV infection.

Addiction Medicine

Aftercare is the care and treatment of a convalescent patient.

Aftercare

Addiction Counseling

Mental health, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is "a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community". According to the WHO, mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others". From the perspectives of positive psychology or of holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines "mental health".

Location	Median Salary
Sarnia, Ontario	$73,984
National	$63,104
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Sarnia, Ontario	$73,984
National	$63,104
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