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The graduate certificate in Infant/Toddler Mental Health: A Relationship-based Approach is designed for professionals who are working with families who have children from the prenatal period to 36 months of age. This program is appropriate for professionals who are mental health, special education, child welfare, and social service providers; home visitors; teachers; child-care providers; and health care professionals. It is also appropriate for supervisors of these direct-service providers.
Introduction to ITMH Certificate program (PowerPoint)
Participants become knowledgeable about current research and interventions from the field of infant mental health:
- Dynamics of infant and toddler development
- Protective factors in family environments
- Risk factors for mental health problems in family environments
- Social, emotional, and developmental difficulties of infants, toddlers, and their families
- Early screening and assessment
- Theories of treatment
- Home- and community-based intervention
- Diagnostic classification systems for mental health disorders in young children
- Collaborative service approaches
Twenty-five graduate credits are accrued over six quarters of on-line and face-to-face instruction. Participants begin as a cohort and participate through the entire program together. An interprofessional team of faculty plans the curriculum content and provides mentoring support during the program. An individually tailored practicum experience is part of the program.