Academic Requirements (N.D. Admin. Code 4.5-02.1-01-03).

The thirty-two credit hours must include academic course content in all of the following areas:

1. Practice.

a. Curriculum content:

(1) Treatment methods and models.

(2) Interviewing process, skills, and techniques.

(3) Individual and group counseling.

(4) Assessment and diagnosis models, including current

      diagnostic manual of the American psychiatric association

      including substance-related disorders and cooccurring

                              mental illness.

(5) Testing instruments.

(6) Intervention approaches for individuals, groups, and families.

(7) Documentation, report writing, and recordkeeping.

(8) Verbal communication skills.

(9) Counselor skill groups effective May 1, 2009.

(10) American society of addiction medicine patient placement

                              criteria effective May 1, 2009.

b. Examples of courses with such content:

(1) Introduction to individual counseling.

(2) Introduction to group counseling.

(3) Advanced counseling.

(4) Theories in practice of psychotherapy.

2. Ethics.

a. Curriculum content.

(1) Professional competence and standards.

(2) Values and societal obligations.

(3) Ethics and codes of conduct for professionals.

(4) Ethical decisionmaking.

(5) Malpractice and liability.

(6) Legal aspects of practice.

(7) Federal and state regulations.

b. Examples of courses with such content include professional ethics.

3. Theory.

a. Curriculum content.

(1) Human development, tasks, and issues across lifespan.

(2) Family functioning, family types, and addiction in families.

(3) Group dynamics and group process.

(4) Psychopathology, mental health, and mental illness in

                              childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

(5) Dynamics of addiction.

(6) Substance-related disorders.

(7) Pharmacology and human biology.

(8) Autoimmune deciency syndrome and human

                              immunodeciency virus.

(9) Alcoholics anonymous, the twelve steps, and twelve steps

                              support group.

(10) Social and cultural theory.

(11) Communication process and theory.

b. Examples of courses with such content:

(1) Marriage and the family.

(2) Psychopathology.

(3) Pharmacology.

(4) Theories of personality.

(5) Dynamics of addiction.

(6) Child psychology and development.

(7) Adolescent psychology and development.

(8) Adult psychology and development.

(9) Cultural competence or cultural minorities.