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Yes! IBCD is an ACBC Certified Training Center. Our Care & Discipleship Course are approved as an ACBC Fundamentals Training Course. You can use the Level 1 and 2 lectures to fulfill the 30 hours of required Fundamentals Training. You can use our observation videos to satisfy the 10 hours of required observation. You can access the observation videos either through an Individual Subscription or through physical DVDs found in our online store. To understand more about how our materials fulfill some of the requirements for ACBC, please visit our ACBC page. Be sure to fill out this form if you plan to use our materials to pursue ACBC Certification.

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ACBC is the biblical counseling certifying agency. IBCD is an ACBC Certified Training Center. ACBC has approved our material for training purposes. We offer a certificate of completion program that may help prepare you for ACBC Certification, but we do not offer a full certification. In addition to training for ACBC, IBCD seeks to bring one-another care to the local church through excellent, easily accessible resources.

Our Care & Discipleship Course is designed to be flexible. If you are using the material as a way to pursue ACBC Certification, the requirements include approximately 40 hours of content (30 hours of basic training and 10 hours of observation). Depending on a participants availability, it’s possible to complete these requirements in about a month and a half. If you choose to pursue a certificate of completion through our CDC course, you will have additional time commitments and assignments. Depending on availability, students can finish these requirements in 3-6 months. Some churches go through the material as a group. We estimate that usually requires 64 classes. Depending on your meeting schedule, this may take 1-1.5 years. The following is a list of what is considered the minimum time required to complete the CDC course and assignments:

• Level 1
  • Level 1 instruction – 15 hours
  • Level 1 electives – 3 hours
  • Level 1 leader interview 1 hour
  • Level 1 exam – 7 hours
  • Level 1 total: 28 hours

• Level 2
  • Level 2 instruction – 15 hours
  • Level 2 electives – 3 hours
  • Level 2 leader interview 1 hour
  • Level 2 exam – 7 hours
  • Level 2 total: 28 hours

• Level 3
  • Reading, The Peacemaker – approx 5 hours (1 page/min)
  • Reading, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands – approx 6 hours (1 page/min)
  • Watching Observation Videos – 10 hours
  • Writing Peacemaker response paper – 1 hour
  • Writing Instruments response paper – 1 hour
  • Writing Observation reflection paper – 1 hour
  • Level 3 leader interview – 1 hour
  • Level 3 Total: 25 hours

• Care & Discipleship Course & Assignment Total: 81 hours

The lengths of the Observation Videos are listed below. The “counseling duration” section notes the length of time that counts for ACBC’s required 10 hours of observation.

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In June of 2018, several lectures were updated and modernized in Level 2.  If you own a handbook from before June 2018 the corresponding lectures can be found in the Legacy section of this course. If your handbook is labeled “2.5”, your lectures will correspond with the audios found in the Level 2 section. These legacy sessions are not required for the CDC exam. These legacy session do still fulfill the training requirements for ACBC Certification. You can review the changes below:

• CDC 2-21 | Biblical Foundation: Marriage is Made in Heaven is replaced with The Divine Design for Marriage
• CDC 2-22 | Biblical Foundation: God’s Directive for Marriage is replaced with Transforming Grace in Marriage Roles 1
• CDC 2-23 | How to Change Your Husband is replaced with Transforming Grace in Marriage Roles 2
• CDC 2-24 | How to Change Your Wife is replaced with Keys to Preserving and Strengthening Your Marriage
• CDC 2-30 | The Medicine Only Approach to Counseling is replaced with What’s Medical About Mental Illness?
• CDC 2-31 | Psychotropic Drugs and Biblical Counseling is replaced with Counseling People With a Psychological Diagnosis
• CDC 2-32 | Cognitive-perceptual Disorders and Biblical Counseling has been removed
• CDC 2-35 | But my Child is Different! has been removed
• Sessions 33,34,36,37,38 have been renumbered as 32-36

Besides the restructuring of the overall order to match the CDC Course, bug fixes, and revised graphics, the overall DVD course has changed in the following ways:

Revised sessions

• What is Biblical Counseling? 1
• What is Biblical Counseling? 2
• What is Biblical Counseling? 3
• Anger/Abuse
• Depression

New sessions

• Grace When Things Are Hard
• Understanding Nature and Nurture in Biblical Counseling
• From Idol to Blessing 1
• From Idol to Blessing 2
• Counseling in Situations of Separation, Divorce & Remarriage

Sessions Not Included

• Solving Marriage Problems: When Husbands Won’t Lead
• Solving Marriage Problems: Sex

Each DVD has been “tracked” with chapter breaks to correspond with the discussion sections in the Leader Handbook in order to be able to quickly resume where you left off for discussion.

As of 2021, the 2011 Basics of Biblical Counseling material will no longer be approved for use towards the ACBC Certification requirements. Please reach out to info@ibcd.org with questions.

The Care & Discipleship Handbooks have undergone major changes from the previous Basics of Biblical Counseling Syllabus.

• The Care & Discipleship Handbooks have all of the same content changes as the CDC DVDs (listed above).
• All of the outlines have been placed in the proper CDC order and the content has been updated to exactly match the DVDs and audios.
• The outlines have been reformatted for taking notes.
• The Supplemental Resources sections have all been updated to more accurately match what is mentioned in the course, and they correspond with the supplemental resources found on each session page
• The Leader Handbook also has discussion sections throughout each lesson, which are convenient places for pausing the DVD and having group interaction.  The DVDs are “tracked” to correspond with these discussion sections in order to be able to quickly resume where you left off.
• The Basics Syllabus contained the outlines for most of the content of Levels 1 and 2.  The Handbooks have now been split – one for each Level.

As of 2021, the 2011 Basics of Biblical Counseling material will no longer be approved for use towards the ACBC Certification requirements. Please reach out to info@ibcd.org with questions.