This certificate offers opportunities to enhance your well-being and positively influence others across various areas of your life. The curriculum emphasizes whole-person health — including physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being — while examining environmental influences on overall wellness.
For personal growth, you’ll gain strategies to prioritize self-care, reduce burnout and manage compassion fatigue. By focusing on your well-being, you’ll be better prepared to support clients, loved ones and others who rely on you.
The knowledge you gain can support a transition into health and wellness careers and help you foster resilience in others. You’ll also learn to apply mindfulness practices and stress management strategies to expand your impact in helping professions, such as social work, nursing and behavioral health.
What you’ll learn
Coursework explores assessment and intervention in clinical settings, working effectively with multicultural populations and analyzing how social determinants affect health outcomes. You’ll study the neuroscience foundations of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MSBR). An embedded eight-week course helps you build a personal mindfulness practice grounded in MBSR principles.
This program also emphasizes guiding others in forming positive habits in nutrition, physical activity, stress management, connection with nature and mental wellness. As a graduate, you’ll be prepared to foster mental health through supportive relationships, self-regulation and integrative approaches.
Arizona State University’s online graduate certificate in assessment of integrative health modalities gives you the tools to thrive in today’s fast-paced world. Through this program, you’ll gain knowledge to support holistic well-being, guide sustainable lifestyle changes and improve quality of life for yourself, your clients and your community.
This certificate includes two core courses and three electives, offering flexibility to align your studies with your personal and professional goals while providing insight into integrative health. You’ll develop a personal mindfulness practice as you explore topics such as holistic therapies, quality of life enhancement and the psychology of mindfulness.
The eight-week mindfulness training course culminates in a certificate of completion in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and makes you eligible to apply for national certification. You’ll complete the full MBSR program, taught by a certified instructor and based on the curriculum founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, as part of your graded assignments.
The impressive faculty in the School of Social Work inspires the next generation of social workers through real-world solutions to issues in areas such as child welfare, family violence, health and mental health disparities, human trafficking and water scarcity. Our faculty are among the most prolific social work researchers in the country and many of the texts used in social work programs across the country were written by faculty who teach in the school’s online social work programs. Our faculty includes:
- 7 Fellows of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
- 11 Fellows of the Society for Social Work and Research
- 5 Fulbright Scholars
The School of Social Work is a part of the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions — a comprehensive public service college dedicated to addressing social problems through teaching, research and service. Our programs, which range from public policy and social work to criminal justice and emergency management, are designed to prepare graduates to make a difference in their communities.
in social work research, according to the National Science Foundation, 2023
in the U.S. for innovation for 11 consecutive years, ahead of Stanford and MIT
public university in the U.S. chosen by international students, according to the Institute of International Education, 2022
for best graduate social work program, U.S. News & World Report, 2026
Applicants to the graduate certificate in assessment of integrative health modalities program must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the School of Social Work.
Applicants must have a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative GPA in the last 60 hours of their bachelor's program. Alternatively, applicants must have a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative GPA in an applicable master's program.
All applicants must submit:
- Graduate admission application and application fee
- Official transcripts
- Personal statement
- Resume
An applicant whose native language is not English (regardless of current residency) must provide proof of English proficiency.
No, Arizona State University’s certificates and diplomas don’t specify whether you earn them online or in person. All certificates, diplomas and transcripts simply say “Arizona State University.”