Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Substance Use in Youth
  • Behavioral health
  • Pediatrics
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity will guide learners through current trends and statistics regarding adolescent SUDs, including stages of brain development, diagnostic criteria, risks, stressors, and protective factors. A review of optimal screening tools and treatment interventions will enable HCPs to better assess and treat SUDs, promote mental health, act to reduce SUD among adolescents, and decrease the potential risks for SUD in adulthood. Approaches to provide holistic mental health treatment and therapies for this population in cooperation with other specialties and community and social support services will be discussed.
Sensor-Based Electronic Monitoring for Asthma: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Disease management
  • Pediatrics
  • 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
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity will provide learners with an overview of the prevalence and geographic variability of pediatric asthma, in part through an analysis of data from Chicago, where this variability is especially notable. It will discuss ways to improve pediatric asthma, provide learners with updated management strategies and describe the potential of new technologies, such as sensor-based inhaler monitoring in children, to improve outcomes across diverse populations through an examination of the recent clinical trial, Improving Technology-Assisted Recording of Asthma Control in Children (iTRACC).
Unveiling Bipolar Disorder in the Pediatric Population
  • Behavioral health
  • Pediatrics
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity will provide participants with a better understanding of the prevalence, clinical manifestations, and differential diagnoses for bipolar disorder in children and adolescents and will analyze the common childhood presentations of individuals later diagnosed with bipolar disorder as adults. The expert presenter will also review lessons learned in her own experience treating pediatric patients with bipolar disorder to provide insight into the diagnostic and therapeutic processes that can effectively treat this disorder in affected individuals.
Transition of Care: Our Patients Are Growing Up
  • Disease management
  • Pediatrics
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 0.75 AMA - Physicians
  • 0.75 ANCC - Nurses
  • 0.75 APA - Psychologists
  • 0.75 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 0.75 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 0.75 CDR - Dietitians
  • 0.75 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity provides a thorough understanding of the recommended health care transition (HCT) components, considerations and goals that should be constant across HCT planning. It discusses the importance of coordinating the efforts of the health care team, adolescent and family to ensure continuity of care, positive health outcomes, and optimal quality of life.
The National Mental Health Crisis in Adolescents: Expanding Current Capabilities to Meet Surging Needs
  • Behavioral health
  • Disease management
  • Pediatrics
  • 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
  • 1.00 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 1.00 CDR - Dietitians
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
$0.00
This activity explores the current state of adolescent mental health (MH) and identifies major current stressors and subpopulations at increased risk. It describes how adolescents respond to toxic stress and outlines the long-term effects that childhood trauma can have on neural pathways, physical health, emotional development, and quality of life.