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Certificates

Certificate in Mental Health

Certificates

Certificate in Mental Health

Program Overview

Mental health is integral to and inseparable from public health. This interdepartmental program addresses the interface of mental health and public health and is intended to enhance the competencies of students concentrating in any of the school’s departmental programs. Students completing the program will be able to describe the epidemiologic burden of mental illness on society, apply theories and evaluate empirical evidence on determinants of mental health, design and critique interventions intended to promote mental health, and identify the sources of financing and public policies that affect mental health services.

Certificate Competencies

  • Describe the epidemiologic burden of mental illness on U.S. and global populations.
  • Describe the major theories on the etiology of mental illness or categories of mental illness.
  • Evaluate empirical evidence on social determinants of mental illnesses or categories of mental illness.
  • Describe how cultural differences affect the experience of mental illness and the seeking of health services.
  • Identify population-based interventions that would reduce the onset of mental illnesses or categories of mental illness.
  • Describe how populations in the U.S. receive and finance mental health services.
  • Identify policy initiatives that would improve access to mental health services in the U.S.
  • Identify gaps in coverage for mental health services in the U.S. and global settings and their consequences for mental health. 

Curriculum

Additional Requirements

The applied practice experience must be a minimum of 200 hours and must comprise of elements of public mental health. 

The thesis or capstone project must focus on a topic in public mental health.

If a student cannot find a capstone or thesis that relates to public mental health, an additional 4 credit hours of elective courses with a focus on mental health may be substituted with the permission of the certificate coordinator. Permission for the substitution must be obtained early in the second year of the program. 

Admissions

Students who are interested in completing a Certificate in Mental Health should complete the intent to pursue form by the spring semester of their first year.

Declaration of Intent

 

Contact

Get in Touch:

Certificate Coordinator
Contact Name

Rachel Corbett, certificate coordinator