Support a child’s mental health and key developmental milestones by understanding their behavior and need for social connection.
6 weeks,
excluding orientation
6–8 hours per week,
self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
Gain practical knowledge for supporting child development and mental health as a doctor, pediatric specialist, social worker, or healthcare professional
Understand the range of diverse influences on a child’s health and happiness as someone who works with children, within a care or mental-health environment
Explore parenting styles, child behavior, social relationships, and cognitive development as a teacher, caregiver, counselor, parent, or someone within a child-related profession
The Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE) is collaborating with online education provider GetSmarter to deliver this professional development course. Stanford faculty developed the curriculum and worked with the GetSmarter production team to create the interactive learning experience. Course facilitation, enrollment, and student support are delivered by GetSmarter. GetSmarter and the SCHE team are proud to bring this course to a growing number of professionals worldwide.
The Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE) supports an effective and efficient approach to the training of health professionals across the globe while empowering the public through access to credible, accessible, and engaging health education. Improving upon conventional approaches to healthcare education, SCHE aims to increase the global availability of well-trained healthcare professionals, create a more informed public, and improve health outcomes in some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
GetSmarter, a 2U, Inc. brand, partners with the world's leading universities and institutions to select, design and deliver premium online short courses with a data-driven focus on learning gain.
Technology meets academic rigor in GetSmarter’s people-mediated model, which enables lifelong learners across the globe to obtain industry-relevant skills that are certified by the world’s most reputable academic institutions.
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Skills and knowledge to help a child be happier and healthier, backed by science-based strategies.
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The ability to support a child’s mental health, and a range of positive behavioral intervention techniques to appropriately react to challenging behavior in children.
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Insight into how critical social connection is to children, with the skills to encourage and foster healthy social development.
Over the duration of this online short course, you’ll work through the following modules:
Module 1 Diverse drivers of positive development
Explore the diversity of influences on a child’s health and happiness.
Module 2 From birth to school — developmental milestones
Review the stages of childhood development and the impact of school contexts on developmental progress.
Module 3 The parenting experience
Realize that understanding the parenting experience improves partnerships with parents.
Module 4 Building peer connections
Understand how you can support the natural desire of children to make friends.
Module 5 Challenging behavior — what it means and how to respond
Consider how to react appropriately to a child acting out or prevent that behavior occurring in the first place.
Module 6 Supporting child mental health
Examine the various ways in which you can support a child’s mental health.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Dr. Grace Gengoux
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Gengoux is a clinical child psychologist, the director of the Autism Intervention Clinic, and the well-being director within Stanford University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Gengoux oversees parent and professional training programs at Stanford, focused on applying strengths-based motivational strategies to enhance communication and social development in young children. She has completed multiple clinical trials evaluating the effects of developmentally informed behavioral treatments on the social-communication competence of young children with autism, and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on parent-mediated and community-based treatments for young children. Dr. Gengoux serves as associate editor for the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. Along with colleagues at Stanford, Dr. Gengoux has written a book that centers on professional well-being and practical strategies to promote resilience for providers of mental healthcare. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center before joining the Stanford University School of Medicine clinical faculty in 2010.
The Stanford Center for Health Education is collaborating with online education provider, GetSmarter, to create a new class of learning experience — one that is high-touch, intimate, and personalized for the working professional. Join a growing community of global professionals and benefit from the opportunity to:
Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from an international selection of universities and institutions, entirely online and in your own time.
Enjoy a personalized, people-mediated online learning experience created to make you feel supported at every step.
Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.