Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology: Medication and Behavioral Strategies for Improvement
This course examines the mental disorders most often diagnosed in children and adolescents today – depression, anxiety, bipolar, ADHD, and disruptive behaviors. This seminar also addresses what to look for when assessing for these mental syndromes, how to proceed toward getting youth proper help – in conjunction with primary caretakers.
All orders include the entire presentation with handouts and a CE test.
Streaming videos and audio downloads will be available immediately after checkout
Mailed CD and DVD formats include the printed handouts and CE test in an attractive portfolio
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
· Discuss the best practices in managing depression, bipolar, anxiety, and ADHD in children and adolescents
· Review and provide direction on case examples specific to the mental disorders routinely diagnosed in youth
· Examine the disruptive behavior disorder spectrum, and address best practice treatment strategies
· Explore the exploding rates of suicide occurrences in young people, the factors influencing this rise, and why suicide is the real pandemic among youth
· Address the circumstances driving the rise in substance abuse among children and adolescents, substances most often abused, and contemporary treatment protocols
Topics
Mood disorders in children and adolescents
· Characteristics of depression in youth
· Demoralization Issues, clinical depression
· Medication management, CBT fordepression
Bipolar Anxiety in Children
· Medication management of bipolar
· Worry, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder in youth
Medicating pediatric anxiety,
ADHD, Disruptive behavior spectrum
· ADHD – causes, assessment,
· The “5P’s” of medication management, behavioral approaches
· Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment
Substance Abuse in youth, Digital distraction
· Trends in youth substance abuse, Screening: The CRAFFT tool
· The rabbit hole of digital distraction, social media and the illusion of real connection
· Parental disconnect, reconnecting our disconnected kids