Licensed Clinical Alcohol & Drug Counselor
Education
60 semester credits (90 quarter credits) Master’s degree or higher in a Human Services counseling field from a regionally accredited college or university.
39 semester credits (65 quarter credits of alcohol and drug coursework.
Required courses:
3 sem cr (5 qtr cr) must be in the areas below:
- Medical aspects of chemical dependency (Pharmacology)
- Addictions Treatment Delivery
- Ethics that includes alcohol and drug counseling issues.
- Group counseling
- Individual counseling
- Abnormal Psychology
- Theories of Counseling
- Treatment of co-occurring disorders
- Family counseling
- Human Development
- Topics in substance related and addictive disorder
AND
l. Six (6) semester credits (10 quarter credit) in alcohol and drug internship/practicum or field placement.
AND
3 semester credit 5 quarter credit Graduate Level courses in the following:
- Personality Development
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental and Emotional Disorder
- Psychopathology
- Psychotherapy
Supervision
2 years and 2000 hours of supervised experience AFTER earning a Masters degree or higher. Clinical Hours must include:
- 1500 face to face client contact hours,
- 100 of face to face clinical supervision of which (i) 50 hours individual face to face and (ii) 50 hours group face to face clinical supervision.
Examination
MAC(
Master Addiction Counselor) and Law Test
