Provisional Registration

Requirements

Qualification requirements

All qualifications must include supervised and assessed clinical practice of at least 120 hours

Eligible qualifications:

• An applied bachelor degree in addictions (or higher) from the list of recognised applied addiction qualifications (meets qualification requirements for both provisional and full registration)
• An applied bachelor degree in Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Medicine or Counselling
• Te Taketake Diploma in Applied Addictions Counselling (level 7)

Important notes: 

• The following Bachelors tend NOT to be applied: Art (Psychology), Science (Psychology), Health Sciences or Social Sciences
• We can only consider international qualifications if they have been assessed as equivalent to New Zealand qualification requirements by NZQA

• All qualifications must include supervised and assessed clinical practice of at least 120 hours

If your qualifications are not addiction-specific you will need:

• An applied bachelor degree in Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Medicine or Counselling, or
• Te Taketake Diploma in Applied Addictions Counselling (level 7)

Addiction practice requirements

• Your manager and dapaanz accredited clinical supervisor will be required to endorse that you have completed 6 months of competent, ethical, supervised addiction clinical practice over and above your course practicum. This will equal a minimum of 100 hours of work with clients – 75 of these hours must be direct client work. If your clinical practice is only via your practicum you will need to wait until you have acquired the practice hours 6 months post-qualification.
• NOTE experience during your placement cannot be considered for this purpose nor support worker practice.