Description

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Amy Hale, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Assistant Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Julia Carmody, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Ryan Davidson, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Attending Psychologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Manuela Villa, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Laura Distel, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH

Director, Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders; Director, Functional Abdominal Pain Program

Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. Recognize commonly diagnosed pediatric gastrointestinal conditions and describe the biopsychosocial conceptualization and treatment model for these disorders.
2. Recall specific GI-focused questions that can be incorporated into the psychological assessment process and the language/metaphors to utilize when discussing the biopsychosocial treatment approach.
3. Describe strategies to promote functioning and to maintain/enhance quality of life in pediatric patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal conditions.
4. Identify and apply evidence-based psychological treatment strategies for the management of pain and other GI-related symptoms.
5. Identify and apply evidence-based psychological treatment strategies for feeding difficulties including avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Social Worker

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston Children’s Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Boston Children’s Hospital maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 18.0 ACE CE continuing education credits.

Psychologist

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs. This course has been approved for 18.0 continuing education credits.

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: