Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Requirements
The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Program has been developed to maintain the high standards of PAAC Credentialed Coaches. The professional development opportunities are intended to recognize the unique and specialized skills of PAAC ADHD Coaches and support them to elevate their practice beyond the basics required for a CACP designation. These professional development opportunities:
- clearly link topics to ADHD and ADHD Coaching Skills in the context of the PAAC Competencies and PAAC Essentials.
- support a Coach to expand their knowledge, skills, and abilities at their coaching credential level or build upon their skills to move to the next credential level.
- encourage learning from various experiences; allowing for both enhancing knowledge and practicing skills within certain limits.
- allow for some flexibility in acquiring new skills and knowledge; recognizing the value in other professional development experiences for individuals during their career.
Every two calendar years, a PAAC Credentialed Coach must complete and submit 24 CEUs as follows:
CEU Categories
ADHD Knowledge and ADHD Coaching (PAAC Essentials)
Minimum 15 Credits required.
These credits support the PAAC Competencies and/or Essentials
– Includes ADHD knowledge and challenge-specific information beyond the basic understanding of ADHD learned for your attendees’ to earn their PAAC ADHD Coach Credential.
– ADHD-specific coach training that supports the PAAC Competencies and/or PAAC Essentials.
– The learning opportunity can be synchronous or asynchronous.
These may include topics such as (but not limited to):
ADHD and the connection with Executive Function weakness
Research or insight on ADHD and co-morbidities. Ex: ADHD & relationship with Anxiety/Depression, or ADHD & Hoarding Disorder, or ADHD & Learning Disabilities, etc.
Research or insight on specific challenges that can impact individuals with ADHD. Ex: ADHD & diet, ADHD & sleep, ADHD & exercise, etc.
Research or insight about tools/software/assistive technology or strategies that can support individuals with ADHD.
Additional Coach Skills and Coach Resources
Up to 8 Credits available.
– Educational opportunities that contribute to the coach’s professional development, which are not ADHD-specific.
– Skill development opportunities not directly targeted to coaching individuals with ADHD and the PAAC Coaching Competencies and Essentials.
– Skill development opportunities related to the business of coaching. Examples include coaching practice and business-building skills, the development of coaching services and offerings, the use of client assessments, reports, and coaching tools
These support both skill development as a coach and your capacity to offer your coaching services to others. These may include topics such as:
Practice/business building tools (how to run a webinar, marketing skills, etc.)
Advanced coaching skills, tools, and strategies (i.e. Coach Mastery, training in group facilitation not specific to ADHD)
Assessment or coaching tools (i.e. strengths or values assessment tools, coaching models, not specific to ADHD)
Hours spent as an ADHD Coach Mentor, Mentee, or Session Leader
Hours spent teaching as a Trainer or Facilitator (does not include prep. or research hours). For a course that you teach repetitively, this can only be claimed for one time.
Ethical Standards Credit
1 Credits required.
– PAAC Ethics Course – offered as a self-study quiz option (1 CEU)
– MentorCoach – Safe Passage: The New Ethics and Risk Management Masterclass (2 CEUs)
– ADDCA – Ethics of ADHD Coaching course (3 CEUs)
– ICF – ICF Coaching Ethics Course (3 CEUs)
As PAAC continues to claim its place in the world as a premier option for ADHD Coach Accreditation, the emphasis on professional ethical standards continues to grow in importance.
Therefore, as part of the annual CEU process, PAAC ADHD Coaches are asked to complete a self-study webinar and quiz worth 1 CEU.
CEU Pre-Approval
If you are a Trainer or Facilitator you may apply for pre-approval of a course by the CEU committee: