The program provides students with an in-depth understanding of childhood in historical, contemporary, and global contexts and prepares them for careers in a wide variety of areas, including preschool teaching, child welfare and advocacy, child health and wellness, juvenile justice, youth programming, and other human services areas.

Professional with knowledge, methodology and human skills required to understand child behavior. It diversifies the paradigms of action in the contexts where the infant is involved.

For students interested in working with children and their families in medical settings, this program prepares students for certification as Child Life Specialists. This unique, multidisciplinary degree program prepares students for work in this exciting and growing field.

Are you fascinated by relationships and personality development, or intrigued by people's behaviour? What causes you to act as you do and what can lead to emotional or psychological difficulties? Do you want to learn about and develop ways of helping those who are in need? Laying the foundations for a career in a caring profession, whether education, health or social care our course will give you a solid basis in psychodynamic thinking, child and adult development, and the dynamics of therapeutic interventions in organisations.

The B.A. in Child Study is a hallmark program of St. Joseph’s College, providing an outstanding education consistently ranked among the best teaching programs in the New York Metropolitan area.

The Carson-Newman Child and Family Studies program prepares you to work in a variety of settings like schools, agencies, homes, community centers and hospitals, promoting positive development in the lives of children and families.

Psychotherapists of children and adolescents have to acquire multidisciplinary and modality independent basic knowledge and build more specific knowledge related to the children and adolescent psychotherapy modality. Psychotherapists of children and adolescents have to obtain multidisciplinary basic knowledge in physical, emotional, cognitive and social development.