Mental Health Alliance

7:1 student to faculty ratio

For more than 40 years, our dedicated and distinguished faculty members have delivered learner- centered graduate education that enables students and alumni to lead and influence positive change for individuals, communities, and organizations.

Global Partnerships The Fielding Infant and Early Childhood Development (IECD) PhD program is a partner with the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health (Alliance). The Alliance is a global organization of those states and countries whose infant mental health associations have licensed the use of the Competency Guidelines® and/or the Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship- Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health® (Endorsement®) under their associations’ names. With the growth in programs serving pregnant women, infants, young children, and their families, the need for professionals competent in the application of IECMH principles is expanding and critical. Programs in need of IECMH-informed professionals include behavioral health, child welfare, early care & education, Early Head Start & Head Start, early intervention, health, home visiting, infant & early childhood mental health consultation, infant & early childhood mental health treatment services, and Safe Babies Court Teams & other baby courts. The specialized in-service training and reflective supervision/consultation requirements defined in the Competency Guidelines® and Endorsement® can help assure that these professionals receive the depth and breadth of knowledge and skills, along with reflective practice experiences, to integrate them into their work.

Library Services The Dr. Dianne Kipnes Library includes access to 280,000 ebooks, 54,000 scholarly journals, thousands of online dissertations, and streaming video resources including clinical interview videos.

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Writing Center Fielding’s Writing Center offers individual appointments with a writing coach, as well as live and recorded webinars, videos, and a self-directed writing course designed by Fielding faculty.

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Mentoring and Advising All students in the PhD program will be assigned a mentor, a key person who will support your efforts to move through the program in the way that is most effective for your needs. You will also be assigned an advisor to help you plan for your coursework and completion of the program.