Continuing Education

15-Hour Chemical Dependency Training
October 22-23
Thursday, 9 am – 5 pm
Friday, 9 am – 5 pm
Pleasant Hill campus, Rm S224
Psychologist, MFT, LCSW, RN, CAADAC
Instructor(s): Douglas Polcin
EdD, MFT
Credit Hours: 15
Course #: CE1019
Cost: $315.00
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Course Description
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The skilled clinician must know how to identify, assess and confront addiction and chemical dependency while maintaining a therapeutic alliance with the client. This course reviews different treatment modalities and demonstrates how participants can incorporate them into therapy.

This course meets the Chemical Dependency pre-licensing requirement for psychologists, MFTs & LCSWs.

Instructor Biography

Douglas Polcin, EdD, MFT, is a research scientist at the Alcohol Research Group in Berkeley and an instructor in both the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies Program at UC Berkeley Extension and the Counseling Psychology Program at JFK University. His current research focuses on the use of coercion to facilitate entry into treatment, peer helping, motivational enhancement therapy and implementing research findings in community treatment programs. Douglas has worked as a clinician, supervisor and administrator in substance abuse treatment for 23 years.