OUR MISSION
Berkeley Training Associates is committed to excellence in clinical license exam preparation and behavioral health care practice. We support the knowledge and skill foundations of effective, efficient and ethical professional practice through quality training materials and services.

BTA has specialized in clinical license exam preparation and staff development for over 25 years. We have assembled an outstanding team of mental health professionals and educators to develop the finest quality exam preparation and training materials available.

ABOUT BTA
BTA associates have substantial direct practice experience in applying the clinical knowledge and skills we teach. Our license exam preparation materials, publications for clinical practice, and staff development programs draw heavily upon this extensive, community based, direct service experience. Berkeley Training Associates does not take an academic approach to training, and we are not affiliated with any university.

University based instruction typically takes the position that "we are preparing students for a life long career, not for a specific job and not to pass a particular license exam." In contrast, the Berkeley Training Associates approach is to prepare license exam candidates for the specific type and level of licensure used in their state. Our in-service training programs are specifically geared to address the regulatory, policy, procedural, and service delivery concerns of the host organization.

BTA is certified by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide workshops, seminars and self-study courses (CE Provider #ACE1010.) In California BTA is approved (Provider #PCE 114) by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

ABOUT DR. STAN TAUBMAN Stan Taubman, PhD, is the Program Director of Berkeley Training Associates and teaches on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, graduate program in Social Work. He is the former Director of the Alameda County Medi-Cal Behavioral Health Plan, as well a Director of Management Services for the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services Department. His clinical experience includes private practice, mental health inpatient, outpatient and day treatment programs, child welfare and medical social work. Dr. Taubman is the author of Ending the Struggle Against Yourself (Tarcher/Putnam Publishing), as well as numerous journal articles addressing both clinical and administrative issues.

ABOUT DR. SHOSHANA TAUBMAN
Shoshana Taubman, PsyD is currently also affiliated with Kaiser-Permante Child Psychiatry, Union City-Hayward, CA. She has previously been engaged in research on gender issues in adolescent conduct disorder at the University of California, San Diego, and has provided psychological services at the Portia Bell Hume Center of Concord, CA, Project Pride of the East Bay Recovery Project (Oakland, CA), and Head Start (Napa, CA). Her specialty is group psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic testing and assessment of children and youth.

Dr. Taubman is on the board of the Northern California Learning Disabilities Association, and provides staff development training for child protective services and other child welfare workers on Solution-Focused approaches in working with multicultural families.

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