Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate Program

This 2-year, part-time, online certificate program prepares practitioners to address the social-emotional, relational, and mental health needs of infants, young children, and their caregivers by applying an infant mental health lens to practice in a variety of settings and different disciplines. Within the program, you will learn to intervene in troubled parent-child relationships and work with young children with social and emotional behavioral concerns and their caregivers.

This program is created for experienced child development, infant/family or mental health professionals who wish to further their experience and enhance their practice with an infant and early childhood mental health lens. A minimum of three years experience working with infants, toddlers, and their families or a clinical license in a mental health field is required. If you are a licensed mental health clinician, credentialed early intervention (EI) provider, child development specialist, administrator, family support specialist, home visitor, or health professional, you can benefit from this program.

Learning Objectives

As an experienced infant/family or mental health professional, you will work with internationally recognized faculty and practitioners. You will learn to:

• Support parent-child relationships through promotion, prevention, intervention, or consultation services
• Intervene in troubled parent-child relationships
• Work with young children with social and emotional behavioral concerns and their caregivers
• Students will work to bring an infant and early childhood mental health lens to their workplace or other early childhood setting as a culminating experience in the program.