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Serving the continuing education needs of Northern California educators and mental health professionals.

The Center for Professional Development at Santa Clara University is committed to providing high quality professional and personal education opportunities for community professionals and alumni. Our accredited continuing education programs focus on serving the CE needs of psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, counselors, nurses, other mental health professionals, and educators.

Our dynamic CEU courses are designed to maximize participant-leader contact in interactive, experiential formats. In our personal on-site classes for professionals, we are committed to providing advanced training with greater depth than is available in online formats. Although we offer CEU’s for all of our classes, our goal is offer workshops that participants choose, regardless of licensure requirements.

You'll notice that the Center for Professional Development has a new website and we welcome you to peruse the useful information available here to you. We hope our new design helps you locate more easily the courses you're seeking and provides additional information for your continuing education needs.

As a unit of Santa Clara University, The Center for Professional Development is committed to environmentally responsible business practices. As one of our sustainability initiatives, we use e-mail for registration confirmations and grade reports. For those who prefer to receive a paper copy in the mail, we are more than happy to accommodate you.


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Featured Workshop

Using Spiritual and Religious Tools in Mental Health Treatment

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Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D.

The purpose of this workshop is to offer thirteen spiritual and religious tools common among all of the major religious traditions that can be used by contemporary professional mental health professionals in clinical practice to enhance the already high quality professional services that they provide.



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