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Adolescent Depression: Diagnosis, Management and Suicide Risk
Activity description
Major depression in adolescents is recognized as a serious psychiatric illness with extensive acute and chronic morbidity and mortality. There is a need for improved care for children and adolescents with mental health disorders, specifically depression. Recognizing this gap in clinical practice, a group of researchers and clinical experts developed Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC) for the management of adolescent depression in the primary care setting. This activity will describe the medical guidelines, review screening and management strategies for adolescent depression and outline risk factors for adolescent depression and suicide.
Provided by
This activity is jointly provided by OptumHealth Education and UnitedHealthcare.
Commercial support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
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Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of counselors, educators, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, PAs, physicians, psychologists, social workers, therapists and other health care professionals who have an interest in the care of adolescents.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the diagnostic criteria and initial assessment of adolescent depression.
- Discuss medical guidelines, screening and management strategies for adolescent depression.
- Identify risk factors for adolescent depression and suicide.
- Determine the acute management and secondary prevention of suicide.
- State the current and possible future role of pharmacogenomics in adolescent depression.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
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 Click here to download the webcast's slides. | 814.62 KB |
| Click here to download a copy of the Q&A from the live activity. | 697.49 KB |
Presenter
Nerissa Bauer, MD, MPH, FAAP
Behavioral Pediatrician, Private Practice
Blogger, Let's Talk Kids Health
Consultant, NSB Consulting, LLC
Indianapolis, IN
About the presenter
Nerissa Bauer, MD, MPH is a behavioral pediatrician, Tweetiatrician and blogger at Let's Talk Kids Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. She sees patients in a behavioral pediatric private practice. Prior to 2019, Dr. Bauer was an associate professor and health services researcher at Indiana University. She is an executive committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council of Early Childhood and served 6 years on the AAP Section of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. She served as the AAP liaison for the 2018 revised adolescent depression guidelines in primary care.
Dr. Bauer’s clinical and research interests are to improve the social-emotional health of young children through earlier identification and engagement of providers and families in the primary care setting. Dr. Bauer has led multiple studies examining innovative ways to engage pediatricians and families in primary care through brief individual interventions and systems-level interventions with a specific focus on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood disorders, maternal depression and parenting.
Activity planners
Sarah Chart, RN
Senior Director
OptumHealth Education
Eden Prairie, MN
Rebecca Gleason, RN, CCM
Activity Manager
OptumHealth Education
Eden Prairie, MN
Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial SupportSM, OptumHealth Education requires all those in control of activity content to disclose their relevant financial relationships. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if such person (or his/her spouse/partner) has a financial relationship in any amount occurring in the last 12 months with a commercial interest whose products or services relate to the activity content.
OptumHealth Education ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.
Ms. Chart and Ms. Gleason have indicated that they are employees of and own stock in UnitedHealth Group.
The remaining activity faculty or planners have no financial relationships to disclose.
Method for calculating CE credit
CE credit was calculated by the complexity of content.
Accreditation statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by OptumHealth Education and UnitedHealthcare. OptumHealth Education 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 health care team.
Credit designation statements
This activity was planned by and for the health care team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Nurses
The participant will be awarded up to 1.00 contact hour(s) of credit for attendance and completion of supplemental materials.
Nurse practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists/Pharmacy technicians
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hour ([0.10] CEU) in states that recognize ACPE.
Attending the full program will earn 1.00 contact hour.
Unique Activity Number(s): JA0007123-9999-19-210-H04-P/T
Physicians
OptumHealth Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PAs
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Counselors, psychologists, social workers and/or marriage and family therapists
Participants must have attended the entire Web-based activity and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.
Psychologists
OptumHealth Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. OptumHealth Education maintains responsibility for this program. 1.00 CE hour.
Social workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, OptumHealth Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. OptumHealth Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 enduring continuing education credits.
Counselors and/or marriage and family therapists
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure.
Attendance
A certificate of attendance will be provided to learners upon completion of activity requirements, enabling participants to register with licensing boards or associations that have not been preapproved for credits. To apply for credit types not listed above, participants should use the procedure established by the specific organization from which they wish to obtain credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
- 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
- 1.00 AMA - Physicians
- 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
- 1.00 APA - Psychologists
- 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
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