Sec. 6. (a) An applicant under section 2 of this chapter must complete the following educational requirements:

(1) Twenty-seven (27) semester hours or forty-one (41) quarter hours of 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) Foundations of addiction counseling.

(C) Psychopharmacology.

(D) Psychopathology.

(E) Clinical appraisal and assessment.

(F) Theory and practice of group addiction counseling.

(G) Counseling addicted family systems.

(H) Multicultural counseling.

(I) Research methods in addictions.

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

(2) At least one (1) graduate level course of two (2) semester hours or three (3) quarter hours 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 licensed clinical addiction counselor who has at least five (5) years of experience or a qualified supervisor approved by the board.

(B) One hundred (100) hours of supervision from a licensed clinical addiction counselor who has at least five (5) years experience as a qualified supervisor approved by the board.

(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 if the applicant can prove that the course work was devoted to each content area.

(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.

(d) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(1)(B), an individual is not required to have a graduate level course credit in foundations of addiction counseling before July 1, 2021, to be eligible for licensure as a clinical addiction counselor. This subsection expires July 1, 2021.

As added by P.L.122-2009, SEC.29. Amended by P.L.49-2019, SEC.10.