Infant Mental Health Mentor (IMHM)

Issued by Virginia Commonwealth University

Earners have the leadership skills to provide culturally sensitive, relationship-focused infant mental health treatment services, administrative oversight within programs, teach in higher education settings, and shape policy that explicitly address issues related to attachment, separation, trauma, and unresolved grief/loss as they affect the attachment relationship, development, behavior, and care of infants ages 0-3.

Type Certification
Level Intermediate
Time Years
Cost Paid

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

Submit application: graduate degree; transcripts; min 2-3 years post-graduate supervised clinical work experience (Clinical)/leader in policy and/or program admin (Policy)/or leader in university-level teaching and/or published research (Research/Faculty) related to infant mental health; min 3 years of practice leader experience in the infant-family field; min 33 hours of training/CE demonstrating competency requirements; min 50 hours reflective supervision/consultation; 3 reference ratings.
Completion of specialized education/coursework, work experience, in-service training, and reflective supervision/consultation experiences (Mentor-Clinical) that have led to competency in leadership experience in the practice and/or promotion of infant mental health.

Standards

Virginia Association for Infant Mental Health

Competency Guidelines