This ECHO aims to support primary care providers and other health care professionals in rural and underserved areas by identifying and treating mental health concerns among children and adolescents.
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Understanding Youth Mental Health in Rural Settings
Participants will be able to:
- Understand mental health needs in a rural setting
- Describe challenges commonly encountered in providing mental and behavioral healthcare in primary care medical home setting
- Identify and integrate into practice commonly-use screening tools for behavioral/mental health
- Understand considerations for administering screening tools for youth in the rural primary care setting
- Identify workflow strategies to support integration of mental-behavioral health in primary care
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Trauma Informed Care
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the long-term physiologic and behavioral effects of repeated trauma
- Describe the 7 resilience skills that should be supported in children using the THREADS framework
- Identify the 6 most common symptoms
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Substance Use among Rural Youth
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the scope of the problem of substance use in adolescents
- Discuss pediatric providers role in preventing and treating substance use in adolescents
- Review fundamental components of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT)
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Addressing Suicide Prevention in Rural Settings
Participants will be able to:
- State the epidemiology and inequities related to suicide risk among youth
- Discuss the importance of integrating suicide prevention protocols in pediatric primary care settings
- Use clinical pathways to detect and manage youth suicide risk
- Describe how to talk to patients and families about safety planning and lethal means safety counseling
- Recognize how the brief suicide safety assessment (BSSA) further triages the results of a validated screening tool
- Name the tools that can be used to assess risk of suicidal ideation or behaviors in patients
- Respond to a patient, suicide screening and BSSA results in a culturally responsive, family centered way
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Shifting the Narrative Around Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the public debate regarding social media and youth mental health
- Incorporate research evidence about social media and youth wellbeing into strengths-based language to use with families
- Understand the AAP Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health Framework and resources and how it can support youth and their families
- Understand more about social media and internet use for rural youth and families, including benefits and risks
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Family Supports and Community Resilience
Participants will be able to:
- Define resilience and adaptation and the importance of both in conjunction with mental health outcomes
- Describe adaptations demonstrated by family members, peer relationships, and community that support their resilience
- Assess barriers and risk factors that adversely contribute to resilience from prover and patient perspectives
Last Updated
12/16/2024