Working with Addiction Recovery
Demonstrate and build your understanding of addiction and recovery. Key topics covered in this practice are addiction, recovery, and relapse awareness, trauma-informed and culturally safe practice, professional boundaries and confidentiality, safety, escalation, and incident response.
What You'll Learn
This PracticeLab quiz helps you revisit the essential concepts that guide safe, quality practice. Answer the questions, read the explanations, and build confidence in the knowledge you bring to your role.
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Addiction, Recovery, and Relapse Awareness
Covers the nature of addiction as a health condition, what recovery-oriented practice looks like in daily work, and how to recognise common warning signs that someone may be heading toward relapse.
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Trauma-Informed and Culturally Safe Practice
Explores the core principles of trauma-informed care, why retraumatisation is a real risk in addiction settings, and how to respond respectfully to the cultural needs of tangata whaiora including obligations under Te Tiriti.
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Professional Boundaries and Confidentiality
Examines what professional boundaries mean in practice, how to handle situations where boundaries are tested (such as social media requests), and the steps to take when confidentiality may have been breached.
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Safety, Escalation, and Incident Response
Focuses on recognising and responding to common hazards and urgent situations in residential addiction services, including distressed residents, possible withdrawal, self-harm disclosure, and when and how to escalate, document, and seek support.