Learn more about addressing mental health concerns and promoting healthy mental development using these resources for pediatric health professionals.
The AAP offers a number of continuing medical education courses, both live and virtual, for general pediatricians, family physicians, pediatric subspecialists, and any pediatric provider interested in the care of children with mental health concerns.
Project ECHO is a telementoring program designed to create communities of learners by bringing together health care providers and experts in topical areas using didactic and case‐based presentations, fostering an “all learn, all teach” approach.
The Pediatric Mental Health Minute Series includes quick yet in-depth videos designed to provide support in caring for children and adolescents with mental health concerns and promoting healthy mental development.
Engaging families to uncover and clarify mental health needs, give effective advice, and have therapeutic encounters with patients and families requires skill and practice. This resource is designed to leverage the techniques of motivational interviewing (or in the case of substance use, a brief intervention) to provide practical skills needed to elicit accurate mental health information and create behavior change in patients. Supported by the Friends of Children Fund.
This resource consists of 6 videos demonstrating examples of patient/family encounters that encompass the most difficult conversation areas for the following mental health topics:
These videos are intended to provide a positive example of the techniques demonstrated. They may not fit into every situation or the style of every provider, and may need to be adapted for particular patients' cultures, genders or family structures.
For those unfamiliar with or in need of a refresher on motivational interviewing, the series also provides access to an instructional video on motivational interviewing produced by the PROS (Pediatric Research in Office Settings)/University of Michigan BMI2 (Obesity Prevention) Study. Throughout the demonstration portions of the topic videos, cues will appear on screen indicating the motivational interviewing or other key techniques being used at that moment.
All patients and parents in the demonstrations are portrayed by actors.
12/05/2024
American Academy of Pediatrics