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Registered Dual Disorder Professional (RDDP)
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Maintaining Your Credentials
Registered Dual Disorder Professionals (RDDPs) will be required to submit ten continuing education units (CEUs) every two years. Notification of expiration will be made no fewer than 30 days prior to the expiration date. They will submit their biennial registration fee, a copy of their current license as an Independent Practitioner and CEUs to ICB by their expiration date. Forms for the documentation of CEUs are available on the ICB website and must be completed, signed, and submitted with proof of attendance. CEUs should not be submitted until notification of expiration. CEUS will not be accepted by fax.
- Continuing Education Policy
- Ten (10) CEUs are required to maintain the credential and must be earned within the two-year credentialing period. CEUs are not transferable to any other credentialing period. CEUS obtained prior to the initial date of registration are not eligible to be used for maintaining credentials. CEU credit is only given once for a training event, even if it is repeated during different credentialing periods. A CEU is equivalent to one clock hour of instruction time. (Excluded is non-program time such as breaks, social hours, registration time, meal times) One college semester hour of credit is equivalent to 15 CEUs, one college trimester hour of credit is equivalent to 12 CEUs, and one college quarter hour of credit is equivalent to 10 CEUs.
- All 10 CEUs, required to maintain credentials, must be alcohol and other drug abuse and co-morbidity specific.
Examples of RDDP education are pharmacology as it relates to dual disorder clients, effects of alcohol and other drugs on dual disorder clients, dynamics of the addiction process as it relates to the dual disorder population, AODA modalities with dual disorder clients, medical treatment issues related to the dual disorder population, detoxification/withdrawal for dual disorder clients, relapse as related to dual disorder clients, AODA rules/regulations as it relates to dual disorder services, history of AODA relating to the dual disorder population, counseling approaches with dual disorder clients, attitudes toward dual disorder populations, roles and boundaries for the dual disorder field, and dual disorder special populations.
- Sources of Continuing Education Units
- Recognized sources of education include, college courses, seminars, conferences, and in-service trainings.
- Structured individual continuing education, such as IAODAPCA Bibliocredit Reading Program and other self-study programs, are available for continuing education units.
- Research papers, accepted for publication, reading, or discussion at a professional meeting or conference, and professional publications qualify for recertification. The topic must pertain to alcohol and other drug abuse/addiction and co-morbidity issues. The work can be counted only once, even though presented in more than one format or location.
- Validation of Continuing Education
RDDPs must document they have obtained CEUs and submit the appropriate validation for each educational experience.
- Certificates or other proof of completion for seminars, conferences, or in-service trainings.
- Transcripts or other official grade reports for college or university courses.
- Extension of Continuing Education Requirements
RDDPs unable to meet the continuing education requirements for renewal may request an extension, in writing. Extensions are $10.00 per month for up to six months from his or her expiration date. If at the end of six months of extensions professionals have not met the requirements for renewal, their registration will be terminated. Reinstatement will be through completing the full credentialing requirement.
NOTE: The RDDP should remember this process leaves only 18 months to obtain CEU credit for the current registration period.
- Inactive Status
Professionals in good standing unable to meet the continuing education requirements for registration maintenance due to health or extenuating personal reasons may place their registration on inactive status if they meet the requirements. The process for reactivation from inactive status will then be followed when they wish to activate their registration.
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