Graduate Certificate in Assessment of Integrative Health Modalities

The purpose of the certificate is to enhance students' knowledge of integrative health practices. It will provide students with extensive knowledge of integrative health practices through directed readings in evidenced-based journal articles, expert lectures from community health professionals and ASU faculty drawn from across disciplines, field observation, an individual research paper, and a mindfulness in-class practice and class interaction which can enhance the quality and effectiveness of treating clients holistically.
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Graduate Certificate in Gerontology

Arizona State University/School of Social Work (SSW) and the University of Arizona (U of A) offer a joint Graduate Certificate in Gerontology through the Arizona Geriatric Education Center (AZGEC). A faculty member from the SSW serves on the Core Faculty for the AZGEC and as a Faculty Associate with the U of A's Graduate Program in Gerontology, College of Nursing. The certificate is designed for graduate students and professionals who want to work more effectively with older adults in a variety of settings, and may be taken entirely on-line or through a combination of on-line and classroom-based courses. Disciplines include social work, medicine, nursing, law, public health, counseling, pharmacy, public administration, travel and recreation, adult education, and personal finance.
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Graduate Certificate in Latino Cultural Competency

The program is intended for the professional who wants to:

• Learn the social/cultural context and theoretical principles of social work practice with Latinos
• Learn the critical cross-cultural factors that influence a worker's competency in forming professional helping relationship with Latinos
• Learn the social service delivery issues invovled in providing services for bilingual, and limited or non-English speaking Latino population
• Expand their employment potential by adding an expertise in professional services with Latinos

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Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement (CTB)

There is a growing need in society for healthcare workers and clinicians to be better prepared to help clients and patients experiencing trauma.   As this type of specialized education is quickly becoming an imperative in society, Arizona State University's West campus has responded by initiating a unique 18-credit graduate program of study- a Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement- for professionals in the field and graduate students interested in working within the field of death, trauma, and bereavement.  

The CTB program will better prepare individuals to work in the field of death and dying, trauma, and bereavement in clinical, organizational, and administrative settings, enhancing knowledge about grief responses and the effects of trauma, providing opportunities for students to research an often under-explored topic, and helping transform the sociopolitical management of grief, traumatic losses, and end of life issues in contemporary society.
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Graduate Certificate in Treating Animal Abuse

The School of Social Work and Animals and Society Institute's Treating Animal Abuse Certificate Program is a non-credit online program focused on training post graduate level health and human service practitioners to treat those children and adults who have abused animals. The purpose of the certificate program is to enhance practitioners’ knowledge of human-animal relationships and ability to assess for, and treat animal abuse. It will provide practitioners with extensive knowledge on the assessment of human-animal relationships and treatment of animal abuse through such activities as directed readings in evidence based journal articles and books, online lectures, service learning, field observation, individual research papers, experiential projects and Q&A tests.
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Child & Adolescent Mental Health Intervention Specialist Certificate Program

The online, 15-credit Child & Adolescent Mental Health Intervention Specialist Certificate Program is offered by the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation at Arizona State University.  The new program was launched in August 2007 with the first cohort student group.  Our next graduate certificate program will begin in August 2009, and we are now accepting applications.
 
For more information on this program, go to: http://nursing.asu.edu/programs/graduate/certificate/camh/index.htm
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