Our online courses help professionals hone their skills in key areas of early education and development. Courses may be taken for continuing education clock hours. Subscribe to our mailing list for course announcements and reminders.
View the Summer 2019 to Spring 2020 Online Course Schedule
Advanced Reflective Supervision/Consultation: Building Skills Using the RIOS™ Framework
28 clock hours
Using the Reflective Interaction Observation Scale (RIOS™) as a framework, you’ll learn about the process of beginning and maintaining a reflective alliance with individuals and groups to help professionals build skills and increase self-efficacy.
Challenging Behavior in Early Childhood: Bridging Educational and Mental Health Strategies for Child-Specific Interventions
42 clock hours
Find the common ground between behavioral and therapeutic approaches to help professionals support the healthy social-emotional development of children while addressing challenging behaviors. Course material expands upon both functional behavioral assessments and relationship-based teaching and explores the causes of maladaptive behavioral patterns in children’s actions and interactions.
Executive Function: What Is It and Why Does It Matter for Infants and Young Children?
42 clock hours
Executive function skills are the brain processes involved in controlling our behavior and carrying out our goals. In infancy and early childhood, these skills lay an important foundation for later success in school and social relationships. Learn about how these essential skills develop, as well as intervention strategies to support children’s developing executive function skills in the first six years of life.
Infant / Toddler Movement and Brain Development: Understanding the Critical Connection
42 clock hours
Movement is essential for laying a strong foundation for brain development. In this course, learn how physical activity affects a child’s cognitive and social-emotional world. Understand the physical activities that support a positive developmental trajectory for each baby and toddler.
Introduction to Infant Mental Health
42 clock hours
Are you a professional interested in knowing more about the field of infant mental health? In this course, learn about the role of infant mental health specialists and the use of relationship and reflective practice in your work with families. This is not a clinical class.
Introduction to Reflective Supervision / Consultation (short course)
10 clock hours
In this three-week online course, develop a foundation of knowledge about Reflective Supervision/Consultation in infant mental health. The course uses the Reflective Interaction Observation Scale (RIOS™) as a framework.
Helping Parents Nurture Healthy Development in the Earliest Months
84 clock hours
Gain training in early infant development, parent education, and parent-infant relationships. Learn how to empower parents and demonstrate support. This course is ideal for professionals in fields including early education, early intervention, parent education, nursing, pediatrics, social service, and health care.
Premature Babies and Their Parents: Information for Early Interventionists
84 clock hours
Learn about parent experiences around premature birth and early intervention. Gain an understanding of the infant’s behavior and development and how prematurity affects the parent-infant relationship. Acquire information and strategies you can use to support each family based on their needs.
Preschooler Movement and Brain Development: Promoting the Critical Connection
42 clock hours
Explore how physical activity impacts a preschooler’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. Learn about current influences teachers and parents face regarding children’s play and physical activity. With this course, you will be able to facilitate physical activities that are fun for preschoolers and set a tone for a healthy lifestyle.
Relationship-based Teaching: Supporting Stressed Young Children
42 clock hours
Are you an early childhood educator who works with troubled children in preschool, child care, or early intervention settings? Learn how relationships with caring adults provide context for the growth and learning of young children. Understand how relationship history and trauma impact development, as well as how to use “reflective teaching” and “reflective collaboration” to better understand young children and offer appropriate interventions.
Understanding Early Social and Emotional Development Using An Infant Mental Health Lens
84 clock hours
Learn how to use an infant mental health framework to understand the social and emotional development of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Understand how different kinds of early experiences – positive, stressful, and traumatic – impact social and emotional development at different ages and over time. In this course, you’ll have an opportunity to apply what you learn in practice.
Working with Parents: Using Infant Mental Health Principles to Support Special Populations
84 clock hours
Explore the role of parents and parent-child relationships on child development. Examine interdisciplinary childhood mental health principles and strategies for working with parents of young children. Learn how early childhood mental health research informs work with parents with mental illness, chemical dependency, trauma, cognitive delays, and those who face other adversities.