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Indiana Code Title 25. Professions and Occupations § 25-23.6-10.5-6

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Sec. 6. (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.

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