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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 offers six professional programs in:
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
Updated! The Psychology of Money in Difficult Times discusses the fear about jobs and present and future finances, which have become a pervasive source of anxiety and stress, both for the clinician and the client. Learn a variety of clinical strategies for helping clients and investigate the emerging field of behavioral finances through lectures, video, case vignettes, guided imagery, and hands-on exercises.
New! Assessment and Treatment of Men in Psychotherapy: Perilous Pitfalls and Effective Intervention Strategies presents the challenges inherent in providing psychotherapy to men and studies approaches to engaging resistant men in therapy and review traditional and non-traditional manifestations of depression, including addictive behaviors such as substance abuse and the use of Internet pornography.
New! In Trauma and Grief: Impacts on Clients and the Clinician you learn approaches to the treatment of childhood abuse and trauma and study the impact on those who work regularly with clients dealing with intense pain, grief, and loss. This workshop uses video and small group exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring in case material.
New! When the Past Is Present: Transference as a Resource for Change explores how transference and counter-transference figure into your therapeutic work and teaches how to build the therapeutic alliance so that it becomes a resource for healing for you and your client.
New! Advances in the Treatment of Personality Disorders provides conceptual frameworks and best-practice interventions that can improve treatment outcomes for those who suffer from an under-diagnosed or unidentified personality disorder.
New! Treating Mania Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder teaches empirically supported techniques designed to reduce the manic symptoms of bipolar disorder, and discusses these strategies within a motivational interviewing framework, placing a key emphasis on helping your clients accept and understand the need for change.
Assessment and Treatment of Mental Illness in Older Adults provides an overview of some of the major approaches to working with older persons and their families in medical, long-term care, and mental health settings, as well as in private practice.
ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) Chronic Conditions and Integrated Care Model teaches the assessment and diagnostic skills you need to work with children and adolescents who are exhibiting signs of autism, and examines some of the most common treatment approaches in treating this chronic disease.
Psychodiagnostic Assessment: Theory, Application, and Practicumexamines the elements of the clinical interview, including the principles and methods of intellectual, objective, and projective clinical adult and child/adolescent assessment.
| Some courses in psychology are also available online. |
Licensing/Re-licensing Courses
The following courses meet licensing or re-licensing 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
Of Related Interest
Spanish for Medical Professionals offers healthcare professionals a thorough foundation for Spanish conversation and comprehension so you will be able to conduct basic professional conversations with Spanish speakers.
Continuing Professional Education
Continuing Education HoursThe continuing education (CE) credit for each course, if available, is listed after the course title. 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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