Behavioral Health Webinar Series
The Behavioral Health Webinar Series equips pediatricians with the knowledge and resources to support your patients.
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Featuring John Ackerman, PhD, Center for Suicide Prevention and Research Nationwide Children’s Hospital; and Jeff Bridge, PhD, Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s
You will learn to:
- Recognize prevalence, risk factors, and warning signs of youth suicidal behavior
- Specify rationale for suicide-specific screening in pediatric primary care settings; and discuss barriers and opportunities.
- Summarize the ASQ, a brief and effective suicide-screening tool that has been validated for use in a range of medical settings with youth.
- Identify practical recommendations for implementation.
Featuring John Ackerman, PhD, Center for Suicide Prevention and Research Nationwide Children’s Hospital; and Jeff Bridge, PhD, Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s
You will learn how to:
- Administer the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) tool in the primary care setting
- Successfully score the ASQ tool
- Respond to a positive screen
- Manage the follow-up care of high-risk patients
Featuring Jack Stevens, PhD, Psychologist, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Associate Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University
You will learn to:
- Identify evidence-based behavioral strategies to improve sleep for children and adolescents
- Evaluate which families are likely appropriate for these behavioral strategies
- Develop specific responses to address family concerns about these strategies
- Featuring Dr. Cody Hostutler
- This session will provide information on disruptive behaviors in children and strategies that can be implemented effectively in a primary care office to address these concerns.
- This session is eligible for 1.0 Category 1 CME credit upon completion of the CME Evaluation Survey.
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Featuring Ujjwal Ramtekkar, MD, MPE, MBA
This session is eligible for 1.0 Category 1 CME credit upon completion of the CME Evaluation Survey
Objectives:
- Define and recognize polypharmacy in behavioral health management of children and adolescents.
- Discuss common reasons and risk factors leading to polypharmacy of psychotropic medications.
- Review FDA approved antipsychotic medications and their indications for use in youth.
- Review monitoring guidelines for antipsychotic medications in children and adolescents.
- Discuss strategies for simplification of medication regimens using case examples.
Featuring John Ackerman, PhD, and Nancy Cunningham, PsyD
Objectives
At the conclusion of this event, participants will be able to:
- Use, or consider for their own practice, lessons learned from the primary care field about the implementation of depression and suicide risk screening: benefits, obstacles, and opportunities
- Increase their knowledge of new research updates on pediatric depression and suicidality relevant to primary care settings
- Acquire feedback from BH experts to questions from the audience regarding primary care implementation of screening, triage and referral for depression and suicidality
Presented by: Benjamin Fields, PhD with Lynda Wolfe, PhD and Ujjwal Ramtekkar, MD
Session Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate familiarity with clinical guidelines for non-medical intervention for children and adolescents with ADHD, as well as a practical understanding of what that intervention entails.
- Demonstrate familiarity with research regarding adherence to the aforementioned clinical guidelines in primary care.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of parent education regarding evidence-based non-medical intervention for ADHD, as well as key educational points to offer parents.
- Demonstrate an understanding of common barriers to families accessing evidence-based non-medical intervention for ADHD, as well as ways to mitigate these barriers.
- Participants will be provided information regarding a number of comprehensive, evidence-based (and mostly free!) educational resources to offer parents of children and adolescents with ADHD.
Featuring: Heather Yardley, PhD
This session is eligible for 1.0 Category 1 CME credit upon completion of the CME Evaluation Survey.
Session Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify anxiety and OCD in patients presenting in their clinic.
- Provide appropriate treatment recommendations to patients as they wait for mental health treatment.
- Make appropriate mental health referrals for youth who can not manage symptoms on their own.
Featuring: Kevin Stephenson, PhD and Jessica Scherr, PhD
This session is eligible for 1.0 Category 1 CME credit upon completion of the CME Evaluation Survey.
Session Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity,
- Participants should be familiar with and know how to administer the recommended screening tools for autism spectrum disorder as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Participants should be able to accurately identify and recognize the first signs of autism spectrum disorder to improve developmental screening frequency and accuracy.
- Participants should be able to identify the next clinical steps and referral process(es) upon positive autism spectrum screening results.
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Presented by: Cody Hostutler, PhD
This session is eligible for 1.0 Category 1 CME credit upon completion of the CME Evaluation Survey.
Session Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity:
- Participants should be able to name common reasons (i.e., functions) for disruptive behaviors.
- Participants should be able to implement evidence-based interventions to decrease disruptive behaviors and increase adaptive behaviors that are brief and easy to implement within a primary care visit.
- Participants should be able to improve their understanding of why implementation is difficult for caregivers and strategies to increase implementation fidelity.
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Presented by: Kristopher West, PhD
This session is eligible for 1.0 Category 1 CME credit upon completion of the CME Evaluation Survey.
- Featuring: David Axelson, MD
Speaker, David Axelson, MD, discloses Other Activities with Remuneration Wolters-Kluwer / UpToDate. These conflicts of interest were resolved by the CME Office. No one else in a position to control content has any relationships with commercial interests.