Section 8-3 - Education Requirement for Licensure (a) All educational requirements for licensure shall be met through the completion of a graduate degree program with a concentration in addictionology, chemical dependency, or substance abuse, healing arts or related field from an educational institution accredited by one of the regional or national institutional accrediting bodies recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Applicants with graduate degrees in other mental health disciplines from a regionally accredited college or university shall generally be accepted with the listed twenty one (21) semester hours of course work (either graduate or undergraduate) as follows: - (i) Each of the following four (4) courses shall be completed:
- (A) Counseling Theories- Three (3) semester credits. Theories and principles of counseling and psychotherapy;
- (B) Counseling Skills- Three (3) semester credits. Methods and techniques of individual and group counseling;
- (C) Practicum in Addictions/Chemical Dependency Counseling-Three (3) semester credits; and
- (D) Counseling Ethics- Three (3) semester credits.
- (ii) Course work shall be completed in each of the following five (5) subject areas for a minimum of ten (10) semester credits.
- (A) Alcoholism: To include biochemical, socio-cultural, and psychological factors;
- (B) Drugs and Behavior: A survey of drugs with abuse potential other than alcohol that affect behavior including psychopharmacological information;
- (C) Addictions and Special Populations: (i.e., adolescents, women, ethnic groups, elderly, adult children of alcoholics, the impaired family, impaired professional, etc.);
- (D) Addictive Behaviors: Gambling, eating disorders, sexual addictions, cults, compulsive behaviors of non-ingestive nature, etc.; and
- (E) Addictions Assessment: Appraisal, assessment, testing, diagnosis/dual diagnosis. This category may also be satisfied by completing specialty training.
- (iii) Six (6) contact hours of specialty training shall be completed in communicable diseases. This category may be satisfied by completing college course work or workshops.
- (iv) Three (3) semester credits is equivalent to four (4) quarter credits.