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CEED offers a variety of online courses for continuing education credit. The course sessions are guided by instructors.  Follow the links below for more details about each course, including registration information.

There are no prerequisites necessary to register for these courses.

Fall 2009 Online Course Schedule (pdf file)
2010 Online Course Schedule (pdf file)
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Bridging Education and Mental Health (BEAM)

Finds common ground between behavioral and therapeutic approaches in supporting children who engage in challenging behavior. Course material expands on functional behavioral assessment and relationship-based teaching to explore what causes and sustains maladaptive behavioral patterns in children's actions and interactions and how early childhood professionals can support the healthy social and emotional development of children.

Introduction to Infant Mental Health

For professionals interested in an introduction to the field of infant mental health and intervention with infants, toddlers, and their parents. The course introduces the role and function of the infant mental health specialist and the use of relationship and reflection in work with families

Parent Infant Pathways (PIP)
An educator's guide to providing information and support to new parents

Designed to enhance the work of professionals in the fields of early education, early intervention, parent education, nursing, pediatrics, social service, and health care by providing specific training around early infant development, parent education, and parent-infant relationships.

Premature Babies and Their Parents
Information and Insights for Early Intervention Personnel

Designed to enhance the skills of early intervention professionals by providing them with background information about the experiences of parents who have given birth prematurely, the effect of premature birth on the infant’s behavior and development, information about developmental care, and other research-based strategies proven to enhance the child’s development and offer both parent education curricula as well as implementation strategies.

Prenatal Developmental Interventions
For Professionals Working With Families During Pregnancy

Developed for family educators, social workers, health care providers and others working with families during childbearing to facilitate positive parent-baby interactions beginning in the prenatal period. This course is grounded in the belief that pregnancy is a family experience. What happens during pregnancy, birth, and early postpartum not only sets the stage for parents but can influence the way children develop and interact with their environment throughout life. 

Supporting Stressed Young Children Through Relationship-based Teaching

(formerly called Relationship-based Teaching With Young Children)

Students learn how relationships with caring adults are the context of all growth and learning for young children. Explores how to use the tools of "reflective teaching" and "reflective collaboration" to better understand young children and what intervention approaches might work for children who are having difficulties.

Seeing is Believing®
Videotaping families and using guided self-observation to build on parenting strengths

Originally developed as part of the STEEP™ program, Seeing is Believing® is a unique practice that helps parents increase their sensitivity and responsiveness to their babies' cues by using a videotaping strategy. Through videotaping and guided viewing, Seeing is Believing® promotes perspective-taking by giving parents a chance to see, from the camera’s point of view, what happens between them and their baby.

Addressing the Needs of Young Children Who Engage in Challenging Behaviors

This course is no longer offered through CEED. For more information and trainings on this topic, please visit the Early Childhood Behavior Project web site.

Additional Online Course Resources

Digital Campus
http://digitalcampus.umn.edu

Gateway for online learning and non-credit enrichment programs at the University of Minnesota

Eager to Learn
http://www.eagertolearn.org

Eager to Learn is an internet-based learning program for people who care for young children. Through online interactive classes, explore opportunities for parents to learn new information and resources as well as share their knowledge and experiences with other parents, all from the warmth of their own home.

Center for Inclusive Child Care (CICC)
http://inclusivechildcare.org

The mission of the Center for Inclusive Child Care is to create, promote, and support pathways to successful inclusive care for all children. CICC has online self-study courses available on a variety of topics of interest to parents and professionals.

Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota
http://education.umn.edu/CI/Programs/FYC/parent.html

Of interest to professionals and graduate students interested in working with parents and families:

The University of Minnesota is offering graduate level parent education courses online. The parent education courses are graduate level and offered in sequence beginning June of each year. The instructors and students are immediately actively engaged together and build relationships as they complete the sequence of courses. This program prepares parent educators to work in Minnesota's Early Childhood Family  Education (ECFE) programs and other Minnesota settings in other states and countries.

For more information about the online parent education courses and licensure program, visit the Curriculum and Instruction Parent and family education licensure web page or contact Chris Buzzetta at 612-624-1294.

Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health (CECMH)

The Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health (CECMH) has published a Children's Mental Health Case Study. The purpose of the case is to teach students and professionals to utilize theory in making practice decisions with children. Funded by the University's Technology Enhanced Learning Grant Program, the case guides users through a story about a boy experiencing mental health needs and includes related research and an interactive quiz. The story and questions encourage users to consider the experiences of the boy and his family within a developmental, ecological lens. The case uses an interdisciplinary, ecological, and developmental perspective to the study of children's mental health.

Instructors may use the case as part of class discussion or require it as an independent assignment. To use the case, go to the CECMH home page and click on "Children's Mental Health Case Study." Contact Rosie Palan with questions at pala0050@umn.edu.