BUILDING BRIDGES OF UNDERSTANDING Part II: Updates
Course Credit
The following credits are available for this course:
| AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (MD, DO, NP, PA) | 3.0 hours |
| Contact Hours (Nurse) | 3.0 hours |
| American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) Category 1 CME Credits | 3.0 hours |
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DESCRIPTION (See the References tab for research citations.) This “Updates” course supplements the core course, Building Bridges of Understanding: Behavioral Health Education for Pediatric Primary Care. In addition to providing updated information, Drs. Walter and DeMaso provide answers to questions they frequently receive from pediatricians in their live course, and illustrate those answers with case vignettes. Building Bridges of Understanding: Behavioral Health Education for Pediatric Primary Care is a prerequisite for this Updates course. Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to: COURSE FORMAT (each session approximates 20-25 minutes in duration) COURSE BACKGROUND (See the References tab for research citations.) Psychiatric disorders are estimated to occur in 15 million children and adolescents in the United States, with annual total costs approximating $12 billion.6 Despite effective treatments, because of the protracted shortage of child-trained behavioral health specialists,7 many youth with psychiatric disorders receive no or untimely services.8 Untreated child and adolescent psychiatric disorders persist over decades, become increasingly intractable to treatment, and incur progressively greater social, educational, occupational, and economic consequences over time.9 More than one-half of pediatric primary care visits address behavioral health problems,and PPCPs write the majority of psychotropic medication prescriptions for youth.10 The psychiatric disorders presenting most commonly in pediatric practices are anxiety, depression, and ADHD, at least three-quarters of which are mild to moderate in severity. If PPCPs can become confident and skilled in identifying, assessing, and managing mild to moderate presentations of these disorders, then child and adolescent psychiatrists and other scarce specialty behavioral health resources could be conserved for the management of severe, complex, unsafe, and treatment-unresponsive disorders. In this way, PPCPs can play a key role in narrowing the gap between the millions of youths needing effective BH services and those receiving them. The Behavioral Health Education for Pediatric Primary Care course was developed by the Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC). The course was initially created as one of the three components (behavioral health education, child psychiatry consultation, integrated practice transformation) of a behavioral health integration program (BHIP) implemented in Massachusetts among the PPOC’s 500 PPCPs. The published findings from BHIP have demonstrated acquisition of target behavioral health knowledge, skills, and confidence by participating PPCPs, increased access to behavioral health services in the pediatric primary care setting, and high acceptability, feasibility, adoption, penetration, and sustainability of the program.11-13 Since the initial implementation in the PPOC, the educational course has been successfully exported to PPCPs in the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Connecticut Children’s Hospital, and Collier County, Florida pediatric practice networks. Suggested Audience: COURSE DIRECTOR Heather J. Walter, MD, MPH Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Boston Children’s Hospital Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School COURSE FACULTY David R. 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, PhD Attending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Funding Graphic Design Video Production Online Course Development RELEASE DATEDescription
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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
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Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.00 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 5.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physician Assistant
Boston Children’s Hospital has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credits for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
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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 CME 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.
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves and their spouse or partner, have reported no relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients.
| Heather J. Walter, MD, MPH | Erica Lee, PhD |
| David R. DeMaso, MD | Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, PhD |
CME Reviewer
Lesley Niccolini No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose
Greg Durkin (Nursing) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate
Crystal Tom (Pharmacy) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate
Pamela Charmarro (Social Work) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate
Eugene D’Angelo (Psychology) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate
References
Course Background:
- Foy JM, Green CM, Earls MF, et al. American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement. Mental health competencies for pediatric practice. Pediatrics. 2019;144(5):e20192757.
- Walter HJ, Bukstein OG, Abright AR, et al. Clinical practice guideline for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2020;59(10):1107-1124.
- Walter HJ, Abright AR, Bukstein OG, et al. Clinical practice guideline for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with major and persistent depressive disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. In press.
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Committee on Collaborative and Integrated Care and AACAP Committee on Quality Issues. Clinical Update: Collaborative mental health care for children and adolescents in pediatric primary care. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2023;62(2):91-119.
- American Academy of Pediatrics. Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents. Pediatrics. 2019;144(4):20192528.
- Perou R, Bitsko RH, Blumberg SJ, et al. Mental health surveillance among children – United States, 2005-2011. MMWR Suppl. 2013;62(2):1-35.
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Severe shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists illustrated in AACAP workforce maps, 2022. Available at: https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/zLatest_News/Severe_Shortage_Child_Adolescent_Psychiatrists_Illustrated_AACAP_Workforce_Maps.aspx.
- Wang PS, Berglund PA, Olfson M, et al. Delays in initial treatment contact after first onset of a mental disorder. Health Serv Res. 2004;39(2):393-415.
- Copeland WE, et al. Adult functional outcomes of common childhood psychiatric problems: a prospective, longitudinal study. JAMA Psychiatry. 2015;72(9):892-899.
- Olfson M, Blanco C, Wang S, et al. National trends in the mental health care of children, adolescents, and adults by office-based physicians. JAMA Psychiatry. 2014;71:81-90.
- Walter HJ, Kackloudis G, Trudell EK, et al. Enhancing pediatricians’ behavioral health competencies through child psychiatry consultation and education. Clin Pediatr. 2018;57(8):958-969.
- Walter HJ, Vernacchio L, Trudell EK, et al. Five-year outcomes of behavioral health integration in pediatric primary care. Pediatrics. 2019;144(1):e20183243.
- Walter HJ, Vernacchio L, Correa ET, et al. Five-phase replication of behavioral health integration in pediatric primary care. Pediatrics. 2021;148(2):e2020001073.
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