California Coalition for Counselor Licensure

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Resources for Those Seeking to Grandfather into California’s LPCC:

  1. Continuing Education

  2. Graduate Courses

  3. Exam Study Programs

Equivalencies:

Contact hours are continuing education (CEU) hours

One hour of instruction is equal to one continuing education hour/contact hour

One semester-unit or credit is equal to 15 continuing education/contact hours

One quarter-unit or credit is equal to 10 continuing education/contact hours

A three-unit semester course is equivalent to a four and one-half quarter-unit course

I. Continuing Education:

Requirement: In addition to, or as part of the graduate degree, instruction in each the following content areas must be completed prior to licensure:

(1) Minimum of 15 contact hours of instruction in alcoholism and other chemical substance dependency

(2) Minimum of 10 contact hours of instruction in human sexuality

(3) Minimum of 15 contact hours of instruction in spousal or partner abuse

(4) Minimum of 7 contact hours of instruction in child abuse assessment & reporting

(5) Minimum of 18 contact hours of instruction in California law and professional ethics, if not included in required core content area

(6) Minimum of 10 contact hours of instruction in aging and long-term care

(7) Minimum of 15 contact hours of instruction in crisis/trauma counseling

Note:  Unlike the above courses, which may be taken as continuing education credit, the following course may be taken post-degree, but it must be a graduate or undergraduate university credit course.

(8) Two-semester unit or three quarter-unit university credit survey course in psychopharmacology

 

Providers:

The following providers are approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Click here to see the entire list of Board Approved Providers for continuing education. http://www.bbs.ca.gov/licensees/ce_licensees.shtml

CCCL will continually update this list as a convenience to counselors. CCCL does not endorse providers.


AllCEUS http://allceus.com:

Provides online CEU courses in:

  • Family Therapy and Substance Abuse (30 contact hours;15 hours required for licensure)

  • Domestic Violence (5 contact hours; 15 hours required for licensure)

  • Child and Elder Abuse and Neglect (20 contact hours; 7 hours required for licensure)

  • Ethics (3 contact hours; 18 required for licensure)

  • Crisis Intervention (15 contact hours)

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder Best Practices (9 contact hours)

 

Alliant International University www.ce-psychology.com:

Provides online CEU courses in:

  • Understanding & Treating Addictive Disorders (15 contact hours)

  • Clinical Approaches, Addressing Human Sexuality with Couples (10 contact hours)

  • Domestic Violence: Assessment & Treatment Considerations (15 contact hours)

  • Child Abuse: Introduction, Assessment and Treating (7 contact hours)

  • Aging and Long-Term Care (3 contact hours;10 required for licensure)

  • Understanding Health & Illness in Older Adults: Mind/Body Interplay (10 contact hours)

 

Association of Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences (AATBS) www.aatbs.com

Provides online CEU courses in:

  • Substance Abuse and Dependency (15 contact hours)

  • Human Sexuality (10 contact hours)

  • Spousal Abuse Assessment & Reporting: (15 contact hours)

  • Child Abuse Assessment & Reporting (7 contact hours)

  • California Laws & Ethics for Counselors (18 contact hours)

  • Aging (10 contact hours)

  • Crisis and Trauma Counseling (15 contact hours)

Note: A coupon code “CLDW” has been provided by AATBS for a 20% discount for their CEU courses and test preparation courses. Enter the code in the appropriate designated place online, or give the coupon code when registering by phone.

California State University Sacramento, College of Continuing Education: www.cce.csus.edu

Contact person: Emily Ballesteros, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , phone: 916-278-4813

To register, call 916-278-6984

Click here to see a flyer on all the LPCC courses that CSUS will offer this spring and summer.

Provides online CEU courses summer of 2010:

  • EDU 233 Substance Abuse Disorders (15 contact hours) June 14 - July 2, 2010
  • More information coming soon on EDU 252 Legal and Ethical Issues in Professional Counseling  (18 contact hours)

Scroll down to view graduate credit courses available at CSUS


John F. Kennedy University: http://www.jfku.edu/

Provides online CEU course in:

  • Chemical Dependency Training (15 contact hours)

Provides in-person CEU courses in Pleasant Hill and Campbell:

  • Chemical Dependency (15 contact hours) see above for online course

  • Human Sexuality (10 contact hours)

  • Spousal/Partner Abuse: Assessment, Treatment and Intervention (15 contact hours)

  • Child Abuse Assessment, Reporting & Intervention (7 contact hours)

  • Aging & Long Term Care (10 contact hours)

  • In Crisis (15 contact hours in crisis trauma counseling, Pleasant Hill campus only at this time)

Scroll down to view graduate credit courses available at JFKU

 

VISTA Continuing Education: http://www.getceusnow.com/Index.asp

Provides online CEU courses in:

  • Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Dependency (15 contact hours)

  • Human Sexuality (10 contact hours)

  • Spousal Partner Abuse (15 contact hours)

  • Child Abuse Assessment and Reporting (7 contact hours)

  • California Professional Law & Ethics (18 contact hours)

  • Aging and Long-Term Care (10 contact hours)

  • Crisis Trauma Counseling (15 contact hours)

 

Zur Institute: http://www.zurinstitute.com/index.html

Provides online CEU courses in:

  • Substance Abuse & Chemical Dependency (15 contact hours)

  • Human Sexuality (10 contact hours)

  • Intimate Spousal & Partner Violence (15 contact hours)

  • Child Abuse: Identification & Intervention (9 contact hours)

  • Law & Ethics: numerous courses under 15 hours each

  • The Psychology of Aging (10 contact hours)

  • Psychophysiology and Treatment of Trauma (3 contact hours of the 15 required)

 

II. Graduate Courses

Requirement: A master’s or doctoral degree from a regionally accredited or approved institution, which is counseling or psychotherapy in content, includes 6 semester units of supervised practicum, and contains at least 3 semester units or four and one half quarter units of coursework in the following 9 core content areas.

Degrees issued Jan 1, 1996 and after shall include a minimum of 48 semester units and 7 of the 9 core content areas, all of which must be completed before licensure.

Degrees issued prior to Jan 1, 1996 shall include a minimum of 30 semester units and include 6 of the 9 core content areas, all of which must be completed before licensure.

(A) Counseling and psychotherapeutic theories and techniques (includes counseling theories, selection of counseling interventions, orientation to wellness and prevention, etc.)

(B) Human growth and development across the lifespan (includes psychopathology, normal and abnormal behavior, developmental crises)

(C) Career development theories and techniques

(D) Group counseling theories and techniques

(E) Assessment, appraisal and testing

(F) Multicultural counseling theories and techniques

(G) Principles of diagnosis, treatment planning and prevention of mental and emotional disorders and dysfunctional behavior

(H) Research and evaluation

(I) Professional orientation, ethics and law in counseling

Note:  Psychopharmacology is the 8th continuing education course required for licensure, but unlike the other 7 continuing education courses, it must be a 2 semester-unit or a 3 quarter-unit graduate or undergraduate university credit course.   It is not a core content area, may be taken post-degree, and is not included in the 6 of 9, or 7 of 9, core content areas that must be within the degree for grandparenting.

Click here to see descriptions of the core content areas.

Educational Institutions

CCCL will list colleges and universities, that offer one or more of the above courses, as they make these courses available for counselors who already hold master’s degrees.

California State University Fullerton (CSUF): http://hhd.fullerton.edu/Counsel/index.htm

CSUF currently offers the following 3-semester-unit in-person graduate courses that counselors may need for grandfathering. They can add students to these classes, or other classes, and set up additional sections, if needed.

  • Group Process & Practice (Offered summer, fall & spring)
  • Psychopharmacology for Counselors (Offered spring & fall)
  • Career & Lifestyle Development (Offered spring & fall, being considered for an online course, which would be offered in summer 2011)
  • Techniques of Brief Treatment and Assessment (i.e. DSM) (Offered summer, fall & spring, may be considered as an online course in 2011)
  • Counseling & Culture (Offered spring & fall)
  • Professional, Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Law & Ethics (Offered summer, spring & fall)

California State University Northridge (CSUN): http://www.csun.edu/edpsy/news.html

The following 3 semester unit in-person gradiate courses will be offered through Extended Learning summer of 2010. Information & applications will be available after March 1st.

  • Advanced Behavior Disorders (pre-req: Behavior Disorders)
  • Career Development & Counseling
  • Law & Ethics
  • Lifespan Development
  • Psychopharmacology

California State University Sacramento (CSUS), College of Continuing Education: www.cce.csus.edu

Contact person: Emily Ballesteros, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , phone 916-278-4813

To register, call 916-278-6984

Click here to see a flyer on all the LPCC courses that CSUS will offer this spring and summer.

Graduate credit courses to be offered to non-matriculated students spring and summer of 2010:

  • EDC 231 Diagnosis & Treatment Planning (3 semester units, online) April 1 - May 13
  • EDC 219 Group Process in Counseling (3 semester units, in-person only) May 14 - June 12
  • EDC 254 Counseling & Psychotropic Medicine (3 semester units, online)  May 17 - June 28, 2010
  • EDC 260 Career Development (3 semester units, in-person & online: hybrid) July 9 - 31

John F. Kennedy University: http://www.jfku.edu/

Offers graduate courses in:

  • Career Development (4 1/2 quarter unit online)
  • Diagnosis and Assessment A & B (5 quarter units, in-person course, not online)
  • Psychopharmacology (3 quarter units, online, see continuing education, JFK)

University of Phoenix: http://www.phoenix.edu/colleges_divisions/health_human_services/counseling.html

Offers a Master of Science in Counseling program with in-person courses in:

  • Diagnosis and Assessment (3 semester units)

  • Psychopharmacology (3 semester units)

  • Law and Ethics (3 semester units)

These courses are offered in the LA, San Diego, Sacramento and San Jose, San Francisco areas. They are not currently offered online. University of Phoenix has indicated interest in providing online courses needed for LPCC licensure in California.

 

Walden University: www.waldenu.edu

Offers a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling with 5 quarter-unit online graduate credit courses, open to non-matriculated students, in all of the core content areas required for LPCC licensure:

LPCC core content areas:

COUN 6722 Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories

COUN 6215 Lifespan Development

COUN 6753 Vocational Psychology and Counseling

COUN 6250 Group Process and Dynamics

COUN 6315 Tests and Measurement

COUN 6723 Multicultural Counseling

COUN 6720 Diagnosis and Assessment

COUN 6310 Research Design

COUN 6705 Professional Identity and Ethics in Counseling

Non-core areas:

PSYC 6741 Psychopharmacology (5 quarter credits; only 3 quarter credits required)

COUN 6728 Substance Abuse Therapies (5 quarter units: only 15 contact hours required for licensure)

COUN 6830 Psychology of Sexuality (5 quarter units; only 10 contact hours required for licensure)

 

III. Exam Study Programs

Requirement: Passing score on the following examinations:

  1. National Counselor Examination (NCE) or the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Examination (CRCE)

  1. National Clinical Mental Health Counselor Examination (NCMHCE)

  1. A California jurisprudence and ethics examination, when developed by the board.

 

Study Guides and Workshops

CCCL will update this list as a convenience to counselors. CCCL does not endorse providers.

National Board for Certified Counselors list of resources: http://www.nbcc.org. Click on State Licensure and then on Study Guides to see a list of providers of study materials for the NCE and the NCMHCE.

NBCC will administer the NCE and the NCMHCE in California for LPCC grandparenting. CCCL will publish the schedule when it is available.

Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification: Rehabilitation Counselors should contact the CRCC www.crccertification.com for information about the CRCE.

Association of Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences (AATBS) www.aatbs.com On-line workshops, study materials and practice exams for the NCE and the NCMHCE.
Note: ATTBS has provided a coupon for a 20% discount for these courses: Coupon code is “CLDW.”

Licensure Exams, Inc. http://counselingexam.com Online test preparation for the NCE and the NCMHCE. Practice exams, case studies, simulations, descriptions, strategies, and more.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 03:00