Child & Adolescent

Core Trainings

The Project TEACH Core Trainings offer evidence-based education in child and adolescent mental health for primary care clinicians. In addition to building knowledge, the trainings provide practical, actionable strategies that primary care clinicians can integrate into their everyday workflow to enhance the identification, treatment, and coordination of care for children and adolescents with mental health needs.

Program Highlights:

  • Offered directly to pediatric and family medicine practices
  • Scheduled at your convenience
  • Training is specific to the needs of primary care clinicians
  • Up to 1.25 CME/topic

Format:

  • Choose any topic from the menu below
  • Presentations are live, virtual or when possible, in-person
  • 1 - 1.25 hours of presentation time
  • Sessions offered 1 topic at a time or up to 5 topics/day

The Four Core Topics*

*We recommend starting with this foundational content:

ADHD

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the critical role of rating scales for the assessment and management of ADHD.
  • Know which medications are first line for ADHD treatment.
  • Understand accommodations and other psychosocial interventions for ADHD.

Depression

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the USPSTF (United States Preventive Services Task Force) recommendations for screening for adolescent depression.
  • Review the GLAD-PC (Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care) toolkit for the assessment and management of adolescent depression.
  • Understand the use of active monitoring and behavioral activation for preventing and managing adolescent depression.

Anxiety

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Learn how to perform a comprehensive initial assessment for anxiety disorders in children and teens.
  • Learn to use a validated, evidence-based screening tool for anxiety disorders (e.g., SCARED).
  • Learn the “why” and “how” of team collaboration for children and teens with anxiety disorders.
  • Learn the evidence-based psychotherapy and medication treatments for anxiety in children and teens.

Aggression

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Differentiate pediatric conditions that may present with aggression, including depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, psychosis, and conduct disorder.
  • Create and implement an effective treatment plan by mobilizing existing resources (e.g., family, professional caregivers).
  • Effectively utilize psychopharmacologic approaches for clinical aggression, including:
    • Selecting medications for individual patients
    • Initiating and tapering dosages
    • Monitoring improvements
    • Identifying and minimizing side effects

Additional Core Training Topics

Trauma-Informed Care

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Identify essential principles of trauma-informed care (TIC).
  • Identify developmentally appropriate strategies for assessing and diagnosing trauma and trauma-related disorders.
  • Identify at least one change or modification that can be made in one’s practice or community to facilitate or enhance trauma-informed approaches.

Suicide Assessment and Management

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Describe recent trends in adolescent suicide.
  • Describe the role of pediatrics in screening and preventing suicide.
  • Describe the role of pediatrics in primary care triaging and management of youth with suicidal risk.

School Refusal

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Assess the factors contributing to school refusal and identify the important elements of a comprehensive treatment plan.
  • Understand school-based resources available to support children with mental health needs and how to access them.

Eating Disorders

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Review the DSM-5 criteria for Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN), and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
  • Discuss levels of care in the treatment of eating disorders within the primary care setting.
  • Discuss treatment approaches for AN, BN, and ARFID.

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Define self-injury.
  • Describe how self-injury exists on a spectrum from NSSI to suicidality.
  • Explore social and cultural aspects of cutting.
  • Review the neurobiology of self-injury.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the basics of scope and definition, etiologies, associated problems, and course of developmental disorders.
  • Recognize challenges faced by individuals with intellectual disability when interacting with the medical system.
  • Understand controversies in autism prevalence.
  • Appreciate the range of clinical presentations and prognosis in ASD, including associated emotional and behavioral disorders.

Request a Training

To request a child/adolescent core training, please call our clinical consultation line at 855-227-7272 or select Child & Adolescent Core Training on the Request a Service form.