Overview

This program will enhance a healthcare provider’s skills to assess, treat and manage mental health concerns in child and adolescent patients. The focus is to provide helpful tools and strategies for primary care clinicians who are treating pediatric patients and their families. This event offers presentations by Project TEACH’s expert team of child and adolescent psychiatrists along with primary care clinicians. 

This interactive program spans over four days and offers 15.0 CME credits. Those who attend every event will have the opportunity to sign-up for site-based learning and consultation time with their local Project TEACH child and adolescent psychiatrist. 

Project TEACH is funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and all services and events, such as this intensive training, are offered at no-cost to clinicians in New York State.

Learning Objectives

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

1. Recognize the presentation, diagnosis, comorbidity, neurobiology, and current treatment options available for individuals with ADHD.
2. Assess depression in youth, and evaluate the treatment options for children and adolescents, including an assessment of the black box warning for SSRIs.
3. Differentiate common anxiety disorders, and describe their assessment and treatment. 
4. Recognize the behaviors resulting from trauma that require treatment, and evaluate the treatment options for children and adolescents
5. Define pediatric bipolar disorder, and provide examples of effective evidence-based therapies
6. Assess children with aggression as a primary problem area, recognizing the relevant underlying factors, clinically assess, and provide evidence based treatment options
7. Assess the factors contributing to school refusal and identify the important elements of a broad treatment plan.
8. Understand the resources schools have available to assist children with mental health needs and how to access them.
9. Screen, assess, triage, and manage suicidal children and adolescents.
10. Assess and development a management plan for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviors

Target Audience

New York State clinicians practicing in a pediatric, family practice and/or school-based health clinic; including: physicians,  psychologists, nursing professionals, social workers and residents.

Tuition

This training program is offered at no cost to physicians and clinicians affiliated with a practice that provides medical or psychiatric treatment to children and adolescents in New York State. .It is offered as a service provided by Project TEACH and is funded by the NYS Office of Mental Health.