Graduate Certificate in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

The Graduate Certificate in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (ICMH) offers professionals the opportunity to examine the optimal physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of the infant and young child within the context of the family. The program is designed for professionals in the field of psychology, counseling, social work, education, pediatrics, nursing, home visitation, and other allied health fields.

The program allows professionals from a wide range of disciplines to learn about infancy and early childhood studies, assessment and intervention strategies, and service delivery systems for infants, children, and families.

The program is particularly relevant to those who work in early intervention and preschool disabled programs, Early Head Start, Head Start, infant and early childhood centers, neonatal and pediatric units, child protective services, judicial programs, adolescent parenting programs, foster parenting, and parent education programs. For licensed mental health providers, it would allow them to expand their treatment, training and consultation business by seeing and treating infants/young children and parents/caregivers, but it would also expand their availability as consultants and trainers to EI/infant and early childhood programs, and likely as court experts.
Courses are offered during the evenings and summers to meet the needs of working students, and individuals may complete the certificate program in just one year.

The Graduate School requires the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree in order to be eligible to apply for a graduate program.
Transcript: One from each college attended.
Letters of Recommendation: Two.
A minimum TOEFL score of at least 83 on the internet-based test (iBT) or 62 on the paper-based test (pBT).
For IELTS test takers, the minimum required score is 6.5.