Pediatric Primary Care Practitioners
Helping Your Patients With Mental Health Challenges
Our 5-hour video course will enhance your knowledge, skills, and confidence about safe and effective identification, assessment, and treatment of mild to moderate presentations of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and behavior problems - the disorders most commonly presenting in your practices
By completing the course, you can acquire the core mental health competencies promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics
Included with the course are a clinical manual summarizing the information in the course as well as mental health resources that you can provide to patients and families
You also can direct your patients' parents to the Kids & Families page of this website for free videos and podcasts that can help them manage everyday parenting challenges, including a new video course about dealing with misbehavior
Sample Course Materials For PCPs
These Pathways are quick guides to the evidence-based assessment and medication management of mild to moderate psychiatric disorders commonly seen in your pediatric practice.
Resources PCPs Can Provide To Patients and Families
“Understanding” Handouts
These 2-page Handouts are patient- and family-friendly explanations of the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and behavior problems, with simple but powerful things they can do at home to help manage these problems. Click below to download and print the relevant Handout, or direct your patients and their families to the Kids & Families page of this website where they can obtain these materials on their own.
Guided Self-Management Toolkit
This Toolkit teaches cognitive-behavioral skills that will help your patients and families manage common mental health problems on their own or with the help of a therapist. The Toolkit has four modules – anxiety, depression, ADHD, and behavior problems, with different versions for each age group – child & parent, teen, and parent of teen. Click below to download and print the individual skills, the entire module, or the entire Toolkit, or direct your patients and their families to the Kids & Families page of this website where they can watch or read these materials on their own.
Ahora puedes consultar el conjunto completo de herramientas en español, ¡y pronto estarán disponibles los módulos en español!
PCP Source Material
Anxiety Clinical Practice Guidelines
Depression Clinical Practice Guidelines
ADHD Clinical Practice Guidelines
Collaborative Care Clinical Update
Systems of Mental Health Care Clinical Update
American Academy of Pediatrics Mental Health Competencies
Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, Psychosocial/Psychiatric Assessment
