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Children's Health Consultant

Consultants or counselors in children’s health help youngsters understand and deal with social, behavioral, and personal issues that contribute to health and wellness. By emphasizing the development of appropriate life skills and healthful behaviors, they help clients deal with problems before they occur and enhance personal, social, and academic growth. Consultants may collaborate with parents, teachers, school administrators, school psychologists, medical professionals, and social workers to develop and implement strategies that encourage children to become and remain healthy in mind, body, and spirit.

Several programs at JFK University may support your interest in becoming a children’s health consultant.

The School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) offers the BA in Science, Health, and Living Systems, a program that integrates the study of preventive health and wellness, genetics, health ecology, and sustainability. You’ll experience a holistic approach to appreciating the factors, conditions, relationships, and interactions that stimulate, sustain, or impede human potential. The BA in Social Ecology recognizes the complex dynamics of a whole person (mind, body, spirit) that exists within a vast web of living systems.

The School of Holistic Studies (SHS) offers the MA in Holistic Health Education, emphasizing health education from a holistic, integrated perspective. Through its particular focus on wellness, you learn to integrate alternative and mainstream approaches, East and West thought approaches, science and spirit, which may then be applied to issues of children’s health.

The Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) provides many programs that offer prospective consultants, therapists, and counselors the knowledge, skills, and understanding to help individuals, families, and groups reach their potential. With family structures undergoing a radical transformation, new approaches can help children and adults live together in supportive, healthful, and socially responsible ways. GSPP’s expressive arts and sport psychology summer camps help children and adolescents acquire new skills that contribute to their physical and mental health while enhancing self-confidence, self-expression, and problem-solving abilities.

To learn more, contact:

• the School of Education and Liberal Arts,
• the School of Holistic Studies, or
• the Graduate School of Professional Psychology.