Curriculum Details
Arcadia University designed the Graduate Certificate in Infant Toddler Mental Health curriculum around competencies required to advance in early childhood education and mental health fields. Each online class includes a 20-hour practicum experience, so you can apply what you learn in real-life settings.
Arcadia’s faculty members have professional backgrounds in early childhood education and teaching online—benefit from their guidance as you prepare to enter this field in as few as 12 months.
Courses
ED 613A Infant Toddler Growth and Development – 3 credits
This course is designed to provide participants with in-depth knowledge about the typical and atypical development of children, birth through age 3, across all domains (social, emotional, physical and cognitive). Theoretical concepts related to ITMH are reviewed. Family and cultural influences and attitudes are explored and emphasized.
IMPORTANT: Students must have current background checks on file with the School of Education using online platform, Castle Branch.
ED 613B Infant Toddler Assessment – 3 credits
This course is designed to provide participants with in-depth knowledge about the design, implementation and evaluation of ITMH needs. Students explore and use various developmental assessments including DC0-3R and DECA. Applications and reflections of the assessments with evidence-based practices are emphasized.
IMPORTANT: Students must have current background checks on file with the School of Education using online platform, Castle Branch.
ED 613C Infant Toddler Mental Health Prevention and Intervention – 3 credits
This course focuses on prevention, early identification and intervention across developmental domains and is designed to provide students with essential knowledge and skills regarding attachment relationships, environments and variables that foster healthy development of children from birth to 3. Students will evaluate evidence-based models of prevention and intervention.
IMPORTANT: Students must have current background checks on file with the School of Education using online platform, Castle Branch.
ED 613D Communication, Consultation and Collaboration in Infant-Toddler Mental Health – 3 credits
This course is designed to provide students with essential skills and knowledge to become effective communicators and consultants for families, caregivers and other professionals who work with children from birth to age 3. Students learn how to promote the socio-emotional development of infants and toddlers through the collaboration with adult caregivers and professionals.
IMPORTANT: Students must have current background checks on file with the School of Education using online platform, Castle Branch.
