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CE Guidelines
 
The following will be helpful information as you plan your year.  Please review the Oregon Administrative Rules, 833-025-0050 for more detail.

CONTENT AREAS
Focus on increasing knowledge and/or skills in the following areas relevant to the field:

  • Theory and techniques of counseling and marriage and family therapy
  • Human growth and development and family studies
  • Social and cultural foundations in counseling and therapy
  • The helping relationship
  • Group dynamics in counseling
  • Lifestyle or career development
  • DiSM diagnostic assessment
  • Research and evaluation
  • Professional orientation and ethics
  • Professional supervision training
  • Disability and life transitions
  • Substance abuse
  • Psychopharmacoly
 
Six clock hours of education in ethics is required each reporting period.

 
WHAT KIND OF HOURS?
  • Attending college or university courses -- 15 clock hours per semester credit and 10 clock hours per quarter credit
  • Seminars, workshops, conferences and/or trainings -- live or through distance learning.  Distance learning training must be offered or approved by a provider acceptable to the Board, e.g., NBCC.
  • Home study from approved providers must be offered by or approved by an accepted provider, e.g., NBCC
  • A maximum of 20 CEUs for a 2 year period for publication activities -- 5 per article; 5 per chapter, 20 for book authorship, 5 per 30 minutes of video production related to counseling; 5 for reviewing book proposal; 5 for each year of service on an editorial board of counseling journal.
  • Professional presentations
  • Receiving supervision - maximum of 10 CEUs each reporting period
  • Leadership in the profession
  • Serving as an officer of a state or national counseling organization
  • Serving as a member of a counseling/therapy licensing board
  • Chairing national conference or convention

 
 
Rev. Jan. 2009

 
Page updated: February 08, 2009

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