BUILDING BRIDGES OF UNDERSTANDING: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EDUCATION FOR PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE (5 hrs.)
$250.00
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This introductory course for pediatric primary care practitioners (PPCPs) provides a comprehensive overview of the identification, assessment, and management of anxiety, depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the primary care setting. By completing this course, PPCPs can acquire the core mental health competencies1 essential for the safe and effective management of mild to moderate presentations of these common disorders.
Description
Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
David DeMaso, MD
Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus, Boston Children’s Hospital
George P. Gardner – Olga E. Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Erica Lee, PhD
Attending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, PhDAttending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
This introductory course for pediatric primary care practitioners (PPCPs) provides a comprehensive overview of the identification, assessment, and management of anxiety, depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the primary care setting. By completing this course, PPCPs can acquire the core mental health competencies essential for the safe and effective management of mild to moderate presentations of these common disorders.
The course begins with the rationale for providing behavioral health services in pediatric primary care, including the preference of patients to receive behavioral health care in their convenient, trusted medical home. The course then proceeds to introduce a straightforward, four-step model of care for anxiety, depression, and ADHD in the pediatric setting, entailing screening, assessment, primary care treatment, and referral for specialty care treatment.
The course includes detailed information about universal behavioral health screening for children and adolescents; guided self-management tools for preventive management of sub-clinical behavioral health concerns; focused behavioral health assessment for the primary care setting; and evidence-based, first-line medications for anxiety, depression, and ADHD. The course also provides an overview of evidence-based psychotherapies for these disorders to guide brief psychotherapeutic interventions by PPCPs, and an overview of adjunctive home- and school-based supports. Indications for referral to specialty behavioral health care also are reviewed.
The course concludes with a summary of the information presented, along with resources to support the provision of behavioral health care to pediatric patients, including a Clinical Manual for Pediatric Practitioners; a series of educational flyers for families on Understanding Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and Behavior Problems; and Guided Self-Management Toolkits for Families. The course also recommends Clinical Practice Guidelines/Clinical Updates developed by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics for advanced learning.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:
- Describe the central role pediatric primary care practitioners play in the management of mild to moderate presentations of anxiety, depression, and ADHD
- Describe the stepped model of behavioral health care in pediatrics and how to implement universal behavioral health screening
- Describe the evidence-based management of mild to moderate presentations of anxiety, depression, and ADHD in the primary care setting, and when to refer severe/complex presentations of these disorders to specialty BH care
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.
Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
Physician Assistant
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 5.0 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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:
Heather Walter, MD, MPH: None
David DeMaso, MD: None
Erica Lee, PhD: None
Keneisha Sinclair-McBride: PhD: None
Additional information
| Credit Type | AAPA Category 1 (Physician Assistant), AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (MD, DO, NP, PA), Contact Hours (Nurse, Nurse Practitioner) |
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| Topic | Adolescent Medicine, Behavioral Health, Family Medicine, General Pediatrics, Primary Care, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work |
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