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The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa
The purpose of this paper is to describe characteristics of substance abuse treatment counselors in the Republic of South Africa, including demographics, education, training, and job duties. Counselors recruited from 24 treatment centers completed a survey after signing informed consent. Counselors...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21037947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-009-9245-x |
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author | Sodano, Ruthlyn Watson, Donnie W. Rataemane, Solomon Rataemane, Lusanda Ntlhe, Nomvuyo Rawson, Richard |
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description | The purpose of this paper is to describe characteristics of substance abuse treatment counselors in the Republic of South Africa, including demographics, education, training, and job duties. Counselors recruited from 24 treatment centers completed a survey after signing informed consent. Counselors were primarily female (75%), racially diverse (36.4% White, 30.8% Black, 18.9% Coloured, 12.6% Indian or Asian, and 1.4% Cape Malay), and were 38 years old on average. The majority (62.3%) held at least an equivalent of a bachelor’s degree, and just under half (49%) were registered social workers. Counselors had a mean of 5.3 years’ experience in substance abuse treatment. The substance abuse treatment workforce of South Africa appears to be young and educated, yet only one third of the counselors had any formal training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. South African counselors could benefit from more training in evidence-based techniques. |
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spelling | pubmed-29653952010-10-29 The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa Sodano, Ruthlyn Watson, Donnie W. Rataemane, Solomon Rataemane, Lusanda Ntlhe, Nomvuyo Rawson, Richard Int J Ment Health Addict Article The purpose of this paper is to describe characteristics of substance abuse treatment counselors in the Republic of South Africa, including demographics, education, training, and job duties. Counselors recruited from 24 treatment centers completed a survey after signing informed consent. Counselors were primarily female (75%), racially diverse (36.4% White, 30.8% Black, 18.9% Coloured, 12.6% Indian or Asian, and 1.4% Cape Malay), and were 38 years old on average. The majority (62.3%) held at least an equivalent of a bachelor’s degree, and just under half (49%) were registered social workers. Counselors had a mean of 5.3 years’ experience in substance abuse treatment. The substance abuse treatment workforce of South Africa appears to be young and educated, yet only one third of the counselors had any formal training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. South African counselors could benefit from more training in evidence-based techniques. Springer-Verlag 2009-09-12 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2965395/ /pubmed/21037947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-009-9245-x Text en © The Author(s) 2009 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Sodano, Ruthlyn Watson, Donnie W. Rataemane, Solomon Rataemane, Lusanda Ntlhe, Nomvuyo Rawson, Richard The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa |
title | The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa |
title_full | The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa |
title_fullStr | The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa |
title_short | The Substance Abuse Treatment Workforce of South Africa |
title_sort | substance abuse treatment workforce of south africa |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21037947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-009-9245-x |
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