California Psychologists

Continuing Education and

License Renewal
Information
California-licensed psychologists have a
biennial license renewal with a date of birth
license expiration.

Thirty-six (36) hours of continuing education are required for license renewal.
From the 36 hours, twenty-seven hours are allowed from home study or independent learning if APA
approved.
California law and ethics are required at each renewal.

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responsibility for all programs and content.

Continuing Education Requirements

Psychologists licensed in the state of California have a birth date license renewal every two years. Thirty-
six (36) continuing education are required in order to renew a license. Of the 36 hours, twenty-seven
(27) hours are allowed from home study (independent learning) if APA approved. California law and
ethics are required at each renewal.

Information gathered from the California Board of Psychology on January 27, 2014.

Continuing Education Courses Online for Psychologists

Mindfulness: The Healing Power of Compassionate Presence is a 6-hour online course. This course will
give you the mindfulness skills necessary to work directly, effectively and courageously, with your own
and your clients life struggles. Compassion towards others starts with compassion towards self.
Practicing mindfulness cultivates our ability to pay intentional attention to our experience from moment
to moment. Mindfulness teaches us to become patiently and spaciously aware of what is going on in our
mind and body without judgment, reaction, and distraction, thus inviting into the clinical process, the
inner strengths and resources that help achieve healing results not otherwise possible. Bringing the
power of mindful presence to your clinical practice produces considerable clinical impact in the
treatment of anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic pain, high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, colitis/IBS, and
migraines/tension headaches. The emphasis of this course is largely experiential and will offer you the
benefit of having a direct experience of the mindfulness experience in a safe and supportive fashion. You
will utilize the power of taking the client there as an effective technique of introducing the mindful
experience in your practice setting. As you will learn, the mindfulness practice has to be experienced
rather than talked about. This course will provide you with an excellent understanding of exactly what
mindfulness is, why it works, and how to use it. You will also develop the tools that help you introduce
mindful experiences in your practice, and how to deal with possible client resistance. Course #60-75 |
2008 | 73 pages | 27 posttest questions

How Temperamental Differences Affect Young Children is a 2-hour online video course. Temperament
plays a significant role in a childs development, experience, relationships, and behaviors. Children often
need supportive intervention to allow them to function in healthy ways and reach their potential. This
video course will include a discussion of normal early childhood development and the range of normal
functioning as it is impacted by temperament. The purpose of this course is to help participants
understand the role that temperament plays in the trajectory of normal child development including
inner experience, relationships, and behavior and learn effective, supportive interventions. It is intended
for all types of therapists who work with children or their parents, as well as for school-based personnel
and classroom teachers. Course #20-83 | 2014 | 14 posttest questions





Autism Movement Therapy is a 2-hour online video CE course. Autism Movement Therapy is an
emerging therapy that combines movement and music with positive behavior support strategies to
assist individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in meeting and achieving their speech and
language, social and academic goals. Its purpose is to connect left and right hemisphere brain
functioning by combining patterning, visual movement calculation, audile receptive processing, rhythm
and sequencing into a whole brain cognitive thinking approach that can significantly improve
behavioral, emotional, academic, social, and speech and language skills. This course is presented in two
parts. Part 1 summarizes what is known about the brain functioning of individuals with ASD and
illustrates how participation in dance, music and the arts can render the brain more amenable to
learning social and language skills. Part 2 is a documentary created by Joanne Lara Generation A:
Portraits of Autism and the Arts, which spotlights from a strikingly positive perspective the
challenges and accomplishments of eight individuals with ASD. Course #20-82 | 2014 | 106 minute video
| 14 posttest questions
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