BBS Compliance

The M.A. in MFT satisfies all of the requirements of the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS), (Business & Professions Code Sections 4980.41 (a) (d) (e). These include:

  Pacific Oaks course work totaling 48 semester units, including:

1. No less than 12 semester units of course work in the areas of marriage, family, and child counseling, and marital and family systems approaches to treatment
2. 6 semester units of supervised clinical practicum, including completion of one year of clinical placement in an approved setting, concurrent with the practicum seminar.
3. 150 hours of face to face experience counseling individuals, couples, families or groups.
4. A two semester course in California law and professional ethics.
5. A minimum of seven contact hours of training or course work in child abuse assessment and reporting.
6. A minimum of ten contact hours of training or course work in human sexuality.
7. Specific instruction in alcoholism and other chemical sbstance dependency.
8. Fifteen contact hours of course work in spousal or partner abuse assessment, detection, and intervention.
9. A minimum of two semester units in a survey course in psychological testing.
10. A minimum of two semester units in a survey course in psychopharmacology.