Graduate Certificate in Applied Helping Skills

For both personal and professional reasons, it is essential that you know how to effectively speak and interact with people who are both similar to and different from you. 

Professionally, employers regularly say they are looking for applicants who have the self-awareness and communication skills to work in diverse, dynamic teams. However, those same employers also claim that these are the skills that are most lacking in job applicants. 

On the personal level, people are lonelier now than ever before, a fact that is largely attributed to a decline in people’s abilities to connect with others. These feelings of loneliness can lead to a range of negative life outcomes, including declines in physical and mental health. 

Completing the graduate certificate in applied helping skills will prepare students in these personally and professional important skills. In particular, after completing the certificate, graduates will:

• Increase their abilities to understand diverse perspectives and to effectively interact with others
• Enhance their communication, helping skills, and leadership abilities
• Explore how their skills can be applied to vocational settings and interpersonal interactions.

This residential program has rolling admission. Applications must be fully complete and submitted (including all required materials) and all application fees paid prior to the deadline in order for applications to be considered and reviewed. For a list of all required materials for this program application, please see the “Admissions” tab below.

Application Deadlines

• July 1 is the deadline for Fall applications.
• November 15 is the deadline for Spring applications.