Activity #4 Career Exploration

Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselor

KNOWLEDGE
• Therapy and Counseling — Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures
for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions,
and for career counseling and guidance.
• Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual
differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation;
psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of
behavioral and affective disorders.
• Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum
and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the
measurement of training effect
• Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for
providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs
assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer
satisfaction.
• English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English
language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and
grammar.
• Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management
principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources
modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people
and resources.
• Sociology and Anthropology — Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics,
societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their
history and origins.
• Philosophy and Theology — Knowledge of different philosophical systems and
religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking,
customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
• Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips,
electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including
applications and programming.
• Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques
needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This
includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and
preventive health-care measures.
• Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies,
procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security
operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

SKILLS
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking
time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and
not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.

• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and
weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding
why they react as they do.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals,
or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs
in work-related documents.
• Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of
the audience.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits
of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
• Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both
current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing
related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
• Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and
procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes
in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system
performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative
to the goals of the system.
• Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and
directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others

ABILITIES
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in
speaking so others will understand.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely
to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there
is a problem.
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems
to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form
general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly
unrelated events).
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and
ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and
ideas presented in writing.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in
writing so others will understand.
• Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of
another person.
• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain
order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of
numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic
(the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for
combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the
observer).
• Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given
topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of
time without being distracted.
• Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
• Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a
figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
• Time Sharing — The ability to shift back and forth between two or more
activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other
sources).

WORK CONTEXT
• Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 100% responded “Every day.”
• Contact With Others — 93% responded “Constant contact with others.”
• Telephone — 93% responded “Every day.”
• Face-to-Face Discussions — 81% responded “Every day.”
• Work With Work Group or Team — 81% responded “Extremely important.”
• Electronic Mail — 75% responded “Every day.”
• Time Pressure — 66% responded “Every day.
• Deal With External Customers — 48% responded “Extremely important.”
• Importance of Repeating Same Tasks
• Spend Time Sitting — 90% responded “More than half the time.”
• Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 46% responded “High
responsibility.”
• Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 40% responded “Every day.”
• Coordinate or Lead Others — 61% responded “Very important.”
• Structured versus Unstructured Work — 52% responded “Some freedom.”
• Letters and Memos — 40% responded “Every day.”
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 27% responded “Extremely
important.”
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 60% responded “High
responsibility.”
 • Freedom to Make Decisions — 48% responded “Some freedom.”
• Frequency of Conflict Situations — 29% responded “Every day.”
• Public Speaking — 57% responded “Every day.”
• Deal With Physically Aggressive People — 47% responded “Once a week or
more but not every day.”
• Physical Proximity — 38% responded “Slightly close (e.g., shared office).”
• Exposed to Disease or Infections — 33% responded “Never.”
• Consequence of Error — 38% responded “Serious

ESFP-extrovert 1%, sensing 1%, feeling 44%, perceiving 6%