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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 fee and CEUs to the IAODAPCA by their expiration date. Forms for the documentation of CEUs will accompany the notification and must be completed, signed, and submitted with proof of attendance and a copy of their current license as an Independent Practitioner. 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 credentials 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/endorsement 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 alcohol and drug abuse/addiction specific education are pharmacology, effects of alcohol and other drugs on the human body, signs/ symptoms of alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA), dynamics of the addiction process, AODA modalities, medical treatment issues, detoxification/ withdrawal, relapse, AODA rules/regulations, AODA special populations, history of AODA.
Examples of RDDP co-morbidity specific education are counseling approaches with dual disorder clients, attitudes toward dual disorder populations, roles and boundaries, 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 or 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
An RDDP 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. An RDDP not meeting the CEU requirement after the six-month extension 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 credentialing period.
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