Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) programs create knowledge networks by using technology to connect specialty care providers and subject matter experts with care teams in rural and underserved areas. AAP ECHO programs utilize an “all-teach, all-learn” approach that includes a combination of didactic learning about best-practices, case studies from participants, and quality improvement protocols to improve care delivery.
Completed ECHO Programs
Cohort 4 – AAP Pediatric Mental Health Skill Building ECHO
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Session 1: Assessment, Engagement and Brief Interventions: Early Childhood
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the healthy mental development approach (i.e., early relational health, safe, stable, nurturing relationships [SSNRs]).
- Utilize the AAP Mental Health Toolkit as a resource to help engage with PMHCA programs.
- Incorporate practical early relational health strategies and interventions in primary care settings to promote healthy mental development and address mental and behavior health concerns.
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Session 2: Motivational Interviewing
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the spirit and principles of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Define Brief Intervention (BI)
- Recognize the value of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Interventions
- Review ways Motivational Interviewing and Brief Interventions can be applied with children, adolescents, and caregivers with mental/behavioral health concerns
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Session 3: Brief Interventions (Anxiety)
Participants will be able to:
- Identify practical strategies to help patients once a mental health concern is identified.
- Understand how to apply common factors and common elements as brief interventions during a visit.
- Apply aspects of core Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) components to patients in primary care.
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Session 4: Brief Interventions (Depression)
Participants will be able to:
- Identify practical strategies to help patients once depressive symptoms are identified.
- Discuss strategies to engage families in mental health care through the family and patient's perspective
- Apply aspects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) components to patients with depression in primary care.
- Discuss considerations for suicidal ideation risk and screening.
Cohort 5 - AAP Back to School Ready: Supporting Pediatric Mental Health ECHO
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Session 1: Brief Interventions – Motivational Interviewing
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the spirit and principles of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Define Brief Intervention (BI)
- Recognize the value of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Interventions
- Review ways Motivational Interviewing and Brief Interventions can be applied with children, adolescents, and caregivers with mental/behavioral health concerns during the back-to-school period
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Session 2: Screening and Assessment
Participants will be able to:
- Screen/assess for Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and other concerns
- Implement screening in your practice
- Provide screening resources
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Session 3: Emotional Wellbeing (Anxiety and Depression)
Participants will be able to:
- Define key characteristics, symptoms, and mechanisms of anxiety and depression
- Recognize the clinical manifestations and diagnostic criteria of anxiety and depression
- Provide psychoeducational strategies and brief interventions within a primary care setting to address common patient concerns related to anxiety and depression
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Session 4: Emotional Wellbeing (Behavioral Concerns)
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the social emotional skills foundational for school readiness, and the role of healthy mental development (ie, early relational health, and safe, stable, nurturing relationships) to foster early emotional health.
- Utilize the AAP Mental Health Toolkit as a resource to help evaluate behavioral concerns in early childhood and engage with PMHCA programs.
- Incorporate practical early relational health strategies and interventions in primary care settings to promote healthy mental development and address mental and behavior health concerns.
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Session 5: Partnering with School and Community Resources: Setting Up Your Team
Participants will be able to:
- Identify potential school health and mental health partners in your community.
- Describe ways to partner with school and community mental health teams to support youth mental health.
- Discuss ways to partner with families as they interface with school and community mental health teams.
Last Updated
09/30/2024
Source
American Academy of Pediatrics