Pediatric Depression

This free, CME-certified webinar provides clear tools to help you effectively screen for and treat pediatric depression. Depression can be diagnosed in up to 8% of adolescents and 2% of children. It can be reliably diagnosed in children and adolescents and there are treatments available.

Failure to diagnose and treat depression can lead to significant morbidity and mortality with increasing suicide rates in the population of adolescents who are depressed. Further, bipolar disorder in children and adolescents frequently presents first as depression, making the detection of depression and mania a particularly important thing to assess and manage. This webinar will describe the presenting problems, discuss comorbidities that are common, and provide a treatment algorithm that can be used.

This webinar is presented by Project TEACH, a program funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health.

Target Audience

The target audience for this event is: psychiatrists, primary care and family practice physicians, pediatricians, nursing professionals, residents, and other mental health, primary care and pediatric clinicians.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this program participants will be able:

  • To review the risks and benefits of treatment of depression in children and adolescents
  • To describe the phenomenology of depression in children and adolescents
  • To discuss the presentation of depression as it relates to the diagnosis of and progression to bipolar disorder in childhood and adolescence.
  • To discuss the management of depression in children and adolescents
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
11/04/2019
Course expires: 
11/03/2022
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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Planners

David H. Rubin, MD, reviewer
Jane Pimental, MPH

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Optimal System Configuration

Flash Player: Adobe Flash Player 10.1+
Browser: Firefox 3+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Safari 4.0+, or Google Chrome 7.0+
Operating System: Windows XP+ or Mac OS X 10.4+
Internet Connection: 1 Mbps or higher

Minimum Requirements

Windows PC: 500-MHz Pentium II; Windows XP or higher; 128 MB RAM; Video Card at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card at least 16-bit; Macromedia Flash Player 10 or higher, audio playback with speakers for programs with video content; Firefox 1.1+, Internet Explorer 7.0+, Safari 1.0+, Google Chrome, or Opera
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher with latest updates installed; 1.83MHz Intel Core Duo or faster; RAM: 128MB or more; Video Card: at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card: at least 16-bit

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