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Please review our new summer CEU workshops, taught by outstanding instructors who focus on topics that will expand your practice and satisfy your licensing requirements. Workshops start throughout the month and can help you develop your practice and improve your understanding of the latest techniques in clinical assessment and care.... For more about the summer term>>
Behavioral & Health Sciences
Whether you're a licensed clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, nurse, or psychologist, UC Berkeley Extension is the approved provider you want for your professional development and licensing needs.
Instructors who are leading researchers and clinicians offer the latest approaches to the tough issues you face every day—from treating patients with borderline personality disorders to facilitating grief counseling groups to diagnosing psychiatric disorders in children.
Earn a Certificate in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies developed with UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Or enhance your assessment and treatment skills in a clinical case seminar or workshop. Each course and workshop offers the theoretical and practical information you need to stay up-to-date and build new expertise. For the education that helps you be the best in your practice, come to UC Berkeley Extension.
Featured Programs
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies Certificate Program has been developed by UC Berkeley Extension in association with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
UC Berkeley Extension also offered six professional programs:
Aging and Mental Health
Child and Adolescent Treatment
Neuropsychological Assessment
The Study of Loss and Grief
The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
The Treatment of Mood Disorders
FAQs about Certificates & Series
New and Featured Workshops
New! Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery in Severe Mental Illness reviews the evidence base for recovery as well as some major currently identified evidence-based practices for the rehabilitation of those with severe mental illness. You use real-life examples and case material in this course, which is intended for mental health clinicians, social service professionals as well as occupational therapists, nurses, and others working with those with severe mental illness.
New! Best Practice Approaches to Working with African-American Males in Treatment studies the key biopsychosocial factors—cultural, temperamental, gender, family structure, and SES—that may complicate treatment success when treating African-American male clients.
New in Fresno! Understanding ADHD in the Classroom and the Clinic improves your understanding of ADHD and its clinical assessment through the use of case studies and the application of a clear conceptual framework. Intended primarily for health and mental health clinicians and school personnel, the course offers you a thorough understanding of ADHD that you can apply in clinical or educational settings.
New! ADHD and the Mental Health Clinician teaches how to recognize symptoms of ADHD throughout a person's life and become familiar with the role of mental health professionals in identifying, treating, and referring children with the disorder.
New! Differentiating Effects of Depression and Dementia advises how to recognize signs of depression in the elderly, (i.e. cognitive versus emotional versus neurovegetative signs) and differentiate them from signs of dementia in this workshop.
Methamphetamine Dependence and Recovery: Applying New Scientific Information to Treatment Development provides the latest high-quality, science-based information regarding the growing methamphetamine problem including methamphetamine epidemiology, medical and psychiatric consequences of methamphetamine, methamphetamine use among certain populations, and behavioral treatments for methamphetamine abuse.
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Licensing/Relicensing Courses
The following courses meet licensing or relicensing subject requirements of the Board of Psychology and the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Human Sexuality: Pre-Licensure Workshop
Child Abuse and Incest: Assessment, Reporting, and Treatment
Licensure Workshop on Aging and Long-Term Care
Ethical Decision-Making in Complex Cases
Continuing Professional Education
The continuing education (CE) credit for each course, if available, is listed after the course title in the web catalog. We use the following abbreviations: BRN—Board of Registered Nursing (provider #00226); LCSW/MFT—these courses meet the qualifications for continuing education credit for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (provider #PCE 1505). CE credits for psychologists—approved by the American Psychological Association as continuing education for psychologists. UC Berkeley Etension maintains responsibility for the program.
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