Behavioral Health
Maintain licensure or certification requirements and build skills and knowledge with professional development classes for psychologists, human service providers, social workers, therapists, counselors, caseworkers, substance abuse professionals, health educators and others. Choose from online classes to fit your busy schedule and meet licensure renewal deadlines.
Questions?
Contact Ashley Kuehl at ashley.kuehl@wisc.edu or 608-265-4267.
Instructors
Behavioral health classes are presented by UW–Madison faculty and staff, regional and national content experts and experienced practitioners including clinicians specializing in mental health, and substance use disorders.
Ethics and Boundaries
Fulfill your ethics and boundaries licensure renewal requirements with live or group-paced online courses taught by University of Wisconsin faculty/staff and experts in the field.
Grief and Loss
Grief is a multifaceted process that affects us all. Through our online courses and certificates, you’ll increase your understanding of how grief impacts individuals and build skills to apply grief support in your personal and professional life.
Human Services
Gain new ways of thinking and innovative approaches to addressing problems with your clients, patients, students and others. We use a variety of online formats to increase knowledge and skills for a variety of human services and mental health providers.
Mental Health
Learn new information and master new evidence-based approaches to working with clients/ and patients in a variety of mental health settings. Courses are offered in various online formats and meet multiple licensure requirements.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
MI is a well-established, evidence-based practice for addressing a range of problems across multiple settings and systems. Increase your MI knowledge, advance your skills and maintain your credentials through our courses, certificate programs — offered online.
Substance Use Disorders Counselor Certificate Program
Take your career to the next level while providing invaluable assistance to people with substance use disorders (SUDS). The UW Flexible Option Substance Use Disorders Counselor Certificate Program offers a flexible alternative to fulfilling the specialized educational hours required for Wisconsin’s substance abuse counselor certifications.
The MI conference rejuvenated my passion for client centered care and belief in client’s ability to change. The conference included professionals that were able to articulate and model amazing use of MI skills that benefitted by learning and future practice.
Lauren Hollie
Social worker, Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference
Featured training programs
Register for a Grief Support Specialist Certificate →Grief Support Specialist Certificate
The Grief Support Specialist Certificate is a unique, interactive experiential program designed to help you create or enhance a practice that focuses on supporting people who have suffered a major loss.
Register for a Motivational Interviewing Competency-Based Certificate →Building Motivational Interviewing Competency Certificate
New format! This 38-hour blended certificate course (instructor Laura Saunders) has 4 days of in-person training. Participants will come to UW-Madison’s campus to network and learn/relearn knowledge and skills to reach Motivational Interviewing proficiency. This course is also offered fully online.
Upcoming behavioral health classes
- Free Course Preview! Community Resiliency Model: Back to Balance
- Ethics and Boundaries in the World of AI and System Change
- Supporting Grieving Children and Teenagers
- Establishing a Foundation for Motivational Interviewing Skills
- Guiding Advance Care Planning with Motivational Interviewing
- Ethics & Boundaries: Practicing Self Care in An Era of Moral Distress
- Social Work Ethics and Boundaries in Supervision, Administration and Macro Practice
- Grief Support Specialist Certificate
- Wellness: An Ethical Responsibility for Mental Health Care Providers
- Managing Ethics and Boundaries with a Clinical Lens
- Essentials of Trauma Informed Care
- Dementia: Exploring Grief and Loss
- Community Resiliency Model: Back to Balance
- Motivational Interviewing & Brainspotting: An Integrative Skills Training
- Etiology of Suicide and Provider Self Care
- Ethics & Boundaries Under Pressure: Navigating Complex Situations with Confidence
Certifications
UW–Madison Continuing Education is an approved continuing education provider for these respected professional organizations:
University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education maintains responsibility for programs and their content.
As an APA approved sponsor of continuing education, UW–Madison Continuing Education is committed to the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interest in the planning, promotion, delivery and evaluation of continuing education.
For complete approved provider information view CEU and approved hours information.
Our team
Katie Holt
Learning Experience Coordinator
Ashley Kuehl
Administrative Manager
Emily Laflash
Learning Experience Coordinator
Meghan Wilhelmi
Learning Experience Coordinator
Emma Bailey
Learning Experience Coordinator
Erin Schuler
Continuing Education Behavioral Health Developer
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