Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The Committee shall accept contact hours only for continuing education courses and/or programs which are at least one hour long and are directly related to the counseling profession. For purposes of this section, a "contact hour" represents a 60-minute hour with no less than 50 minutes of content within the hour. Courses or programs may include one 10-minute break for each contact hour.
(b) A licensee or certificate holder shall complete and be able to verify such completion of a continuing education course or program in order to receive continuing education credits. The Committee shall grant a licensee or certificate holder continuing education credit for each biennial renewal period as follows:
1. Course or program presentations: one and one-half contact hours of continuing education for each hour of a new course or program, up to a maximum of nine continuing education contact hours. These presentations shall not include lectures to clients or client family members. These presentations may include professional training, training for initial certification or licensure, continuing education for other professionals about substance abuse and addictions;
2. Teaching courses offered at a regionally accredited institution of higher education: 20 contact hours of continuing education for each new semester course per biennial period. For the purpose of this subsection, "new" represents a course that the licensee or certificate holder has not taught previously in any educational setting;
3. Successfully completing an undergraduate, graduate or post graduate coursework in the content areas listed at N.J.A.C. 13:34C-5.4(d), at a regionally accredited institution of higher education: 15 contact hours of continuing education for each semester course credit awarded;
4. Distance learning courses or programs: the amount of contact hours of continuing education approved by the approving organization, with a maximum of 20 contact hours for the licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor and 30 contact hours for the certified alcohol and drug counselor per biennial period; and
5. The primary author of a peer reviewed article published in a refereed professional journal or publication within the preceding biennial period: five contact hours of continuing education hours per article or publication, with a maximum of 10 contact hours per biennial period.
