“…As a member of IAAOC, I am grateful for the expertise and direction the board has provided to further the advancement of addiction counseling. (R. R. Moro, personal communication, April 4, 2013) Several articles published in JAOC address various aspects of competencybased education, which is applicable for all training of professional counselors and especially for graduates of CACREP-accredited master's-degree programs in addictions counseling (see Hagedorn, 2007Hagedorn, , 2009Linton, 2012;Miller, Scarborough, Clark, Leonard, & Keziah, 2010;Rieckmann et al, 2011;West & Hamm, 2012).…”