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Next Renewal: Mar 29th, 2025
30 CE credit hours required every 2 years — 30 may be earned with Addiction Counselor CE.
Applies To:
- Florida Social Workers
- Florida Counselors
- Florida Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselor CE’s distant learning courses meet qualifications for continuing education credit for MFT’s, LCSW’s, LMHC’s, as required by the Florida Board, and is fully compatible with Florida’s CE Broker system. Simply enter your Florida state license code using the link provided in your member account.
Licensees are required to completed 30 credit hours every renewal period.
Continuing Education Requirements:
- General Hours: 25 hours required every biennium
- Medical Errors: 2 hours required every biennium
- Ethics & Boundaries or Telehealth: 3 hours required every biennium ( you must alternate this requirement. If you take ethics for one renewal, you must take telehealth for the next.)
- Laws & Rules: 3 hours required every third biennium
- Domestic Violence: 2 hours required every third biennium
Qualified Supervisors must take a 4 credit Qualified Supervisor training every third biennium. We do not currently offer a course that meets this requirement.
View the “Special Requirements” tab for ethics, laws and rules, medical errors, and domestic violence courses that are approved by the board.
Board Contact Info
4042 Bald Cypress Way
Tallahassee , FL
Phone: 850-488-0595
Website: https://floridasmentalhealthprofessions.gov
Prevention of Medical Errors, 2.00 CE credit hours
We recommend Medical (Behavioral Healthcare Practice) Errors, course # 101522.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 1 course applicable to this requirement.
101522: Medical (Behavioral Healthcare Practice) Errors, 4 CE credit hours
Laws and Rules, 3.00 CE credit hours
Every third biennum after initial licensure, a licensee must complete 3 hour laws and rules continuing education units. This is the only course that offer for that requirement and it can be taken once each renewal period.
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We do not currently offer courses to fulfill this requirement.
Ethics and Boundaries, 3.00 CE credit hours
Courses must be taken in alternating biennial renewal periods. One period should be ethics and boundaries and the next period should be telehealth.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 23 courses applicable to this requirement.
103525: Requirements for Clinical Record-Keeping: From the Basic to the Complicated, 2 CE credit hours - 103483: Therapist Self-disclosure, Countertransference, and Self Care in the Current Work Environment, 3 CE credit hours
- 103447: The Interplay of Ethics & Motivational Interviewing!, 3 CE credit hours
- 103386: Spirituality, Diversity, and Ethical Decision-Making: The Inclusive Wesleyan Quadrilateral Discernment Model, 1 CE credit hour
- 103329: Ethical Humility in Social Work, 1.5 CE credit hour
- View All 23 Courses
Domestic Violence, 2.00 CE credit hours
Every third renewal, you must complete a two hour continuing education course on domestic violence.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 4 courses applicable to this requirement.
103530: Intimate Partner Violence and Structural Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Women, 1 CE credit hour - 103422: Domestic Violence Victimization & Clinical Considerations, 3 CE credit hours
- 103235: Improving the Mental Health of Women Intimate Partner Violence Survivors:, 1.5 CE credit hour
- 102687: Substance Abuse Assessment: Why, How, and What Do You Do With It?, 1 CE credit hour
Telehealth, 3.00 CE credit hours
Courses must be taken in alternating biennial renewal periods. One period should be ethics and boundaries and the next period should be telehealth.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 8 courses applicable to this requirement.
103438: Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Practice Presented by the Use of Technology, 3 CE credit hours - 103359: Reach Out and Shrink Someone-Clinical Practice in the Age of Technology, 3 CE credit hours
- 103345: Reviewing the Availability, Efficacy and Clinical Utility of Telepsychology in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (Tele-DBT), 1.75 CE credit hour
- 103340: Walking the Ethical Line in Providing Telemental Health Services, 3 CE credit hours
- 103268: Online and Distance Behavioral Health Practitioners: Ethics and Risk-management Challenges, 3 CE credit hours
- View All 8 Courses
Sex Therapy Training (Applies only for sex therapist), 0.00 CE credit hours
This specialized topic requires special board approval.
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We do not currently offer courses to fulfill this requirement.
Hypnosis Training (Applies only for those performing hypnotherapy), 0.00 CE credit hours
Courses for this specialized topic require special approval from the board.
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We do not currently offer courses to fulfill this requirement.
Supervisory Initial Training (Applies to supervisors), 12.00 CE credit hours
Courses for this specialized topic of training requires special approval from the board and it must be 16 hours of live interaction training. This requirement cannot be fulfilled with online coursework. Please check your state board requirements.
This requirement cannot be completed with online coursework.
Qualified Supervisor Renewal Course, 4.00 CE credit hours
This course meets the requirement of section 64B-6.0025 for qualified supervisors looking to renew their qualified supervisor status.
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We do not currently offer courses to fulfill this requirement.
Course Description | Medium |
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Treatments for Internet Addiction, Sex Addiction and Compulsive Buying:: A Meta-Analysis
2.25 CE credit hours
Clinical Topics & Methods; Addictions, Substance Use; Clinical Evaluation; Treatment Planning; Pharmacology; Treatment Knowledge |
Reading-Based Online |
Opioid-related Treatment, Interventions, and Outcomes Among Incarcerated Persons:: A Systematic Review
2.5 CE credit hours
Clinical Topics & Methods; Addictions, Substance Use; Clinical Disorders (Adult); Treatment Planning; Treatment Knowledge; Clinical Evaluation; Crisis Intervention |
Reading-Based Online |
Current Advances in Research in Treatment and Recovery: Nicotine Addiction
2.25 CE credit hours
Addictions, Substance Use; Clinical Topics & Methods; Understanding Addiction; Prevention; Treatment Knowledge |
Reading-Based Online |
Addiction and Autonomy:: Why emotional dysregulation in additional impairs autonomy and why it matters
1.75 CE credit hour
Addictions, Substance Use; Treatment Planning; Understanding Addiction; Treatment Knowledge; Application to Practice |
Reading-Based Online |
The Role of Stress, Trauma, and Negative Affect in Alcohol Misuse and Alcohol Use Disorder in Women
1 CE credit hour
Addictions, Substance Use; Gender Issues; Clinical Disorders (Adult); Clinical Topics & Methods; Understanding Addiction; Treatment Knowledge; Prevention |
Reading-Based Online |
E-cigarette Use Behaviors of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth in the Contiguous United States:: Insights from the Monitoring the Future Study (2018–2019)
1 CE credit hour
Clinical Topics & Methods; Children and Adolescents; Addictions, Substance Use; Clinical Evaluation |
Reading-Based Online |
"Letting Go and Staying Connected":: Substance Use Outcomes from a Developmentally Targeted Intervention for Parents of College Students
1 CE credit hour
Addictions, Substance Use; Children and Adolescents; Couples, Family; Education (Client, Family, and Community); Family/Couple; Prevention |
Reading-Based Online |
Children of Parents With Addiction: Hidden Burdens and Resiliencies
3 CE credit hours
Children and Adolescents; Addictions, Substance Use; Education (Client, Family, and Community); Treatment Planning; Family/Couple; Understanding Addiction |
Recorded Webinar |
Behavioral Addiction from the Asian Americans Perspective:: Exploration of Public and Help-Seeking Stigma
1.25 CE credit hour
Clinical Topics & Methods; Cultural & Racial Diversity; Clinical Disorders (Adult); Gambling |
Reading-Based Online |
The Effect of Significant-Other Involvement in Treatment for Substance Use Disorders:: A Meta-Analysis
1.25 CE credit hour
Addictions, Substance Use; Family/Couple |
Reading-Based Online |