Indiana § 25-23.6-10.5-6 Clinical addiction counselor educational requirements

Indiana Statutes

§ 25-23.6-10.5-6 — Clinical addiction counselor educational requirements

Indiana § 25-23.6-10.5-6

Title 25PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Art. 23.6BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND HUMAN

Ch. 10.5Addiction Counselor and Clinical Addiction

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(a)An applicant under section 2 of this chapter must complete the following educational requirements:

(1)Graduate course work that must include graduate level course credits with material in at least the following content areas:

(A)Addiction counseling theories and techniques.

(B)Psychopharmacology.

(C)Psychopathology.

(D)Clinical appraisal and assessment.

(E)Theory and practice of group addiction counseling.

(F)Counseling addicted family systems.

(G)Multicultural counseling.

(H)Research methods in addictions.

(I)Areas of content as approved by the board.

(2)Graduate course work in the following areas:

(A)Legal, ethical, and professional standards issues in the practice of addiction counseling and therapy or an equivalent course approved by the board.

(B)Appraisal and assessm

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(a) An applicant under section 2 of this
chapter must complete the following educational requirements:
(1) Graduate course work that must include graduate level course
credits with material in at least the following content areas:
(A) Addiction counseling theories and techniques.
(B) Psychopharmacology.
(C) Psychopathology.
(D) Clinical appraisal and assessment.
(E) Theory and practice of group addiction counseling.
(F) Counseling addicted family systems.
(G) Multicultural counseling.
(H) Research methods in addictions.
(I) Areas of content as approved by the board.
(2) Graduate course work in the following areas:
(A) Legal, ethical, and professional standards issues in the
practice of addiction counseling and therapy or an equivalent
course approved by the board.
(B) Appraisal and assessment for individual or interpersonal
disorder or dysfunction.
(3) At least one (1) supervised clinical practicum, internship, or
field experience in an addiction counseling setting that requires
the applicant to provide seven hundred (700) hours of clinical
addiction counseling services and that must include the following:
(A) Two hundred eighty (280) face to face client contact hours
of addiction counseling services under the supervision of a
qualified supervisor, as determined by the board.
(B) Thirty-five (35) hours of supervision from a qualified
supervisor, as determined by the board.
However, an applicant who has completed a clinical practicum,
an internship, or field experience to obtain another license under
this article is not required to complete the clinical addiction
counseling services hours required under this subdivision.
(4) Any qualifications established by the board under subsection
(c).
(b) The content areas under subsection (a)(1) may be combined into
any one (1) graduate level course.
(c) The board shall adopt rules to establish any additional
educational or clinical qualifications as specified by the Council for
Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs or a
successor organization.