Identify and discuss your own presuppositions: the primary presuppositions that function as you approach the counseling encounter and the issue of substance abuse.

Using information reported in your Student Self-Assessment: Identify and discuss your own
presuppositions: the primary presuppositions that function as you approach the counseling encounter and
the issue of substance abuse. In other words, what do you take for granted? What are the fundamental
assumptions/perspectives regarding substance abuse that you accept as given and true and unnecessary
to prove? What beliefs and biases do you bring to the counseling encounter and the issue of substance
abuse? How does this related to ethics as outlined by NASW’s Code of Ethics and NAADAC’s Code of
Ethics? How do you plant to overcome any known or unknown biases and issues with competency?

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