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Brief Parent Management Training for Child Disruptive Behaviors
Evidence-based behavioral interventions are recommended as the first-line treatment for childhood disruptive behaviors, but are hard to access in the community. Parent Behavior Management Training is an intervention with strong research support that can be implemented by clinicians in a variety of settings to improve child and family functioning. This self-paced course provides an overview of parent management training techniques in a brief format that is ideal for the primary care setting.
At the completion of this activity, you will be able to:
- Teach the rationale for parent behavior management training as a treatment for childhood disruptive behavior problems.
- Use techniques to help parents effectively manage challenging child behaviors.
- Address barriers to effective implementation of parent skills training.
Author/Presenter: Erin Gonzalez, PhD is a PAL (Partnership Access Line) Program Consultant for Seattle Children’s Hospital. PAL supports primary care providers (doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants) with questions about mental health care such as diagnostic clarification, medication adjustment or treatment planning. Dr. Gonzalez is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Motivational Interviewing in Primary Care: The Basics
Motivational interviewing is a useful counseling approach for supporting positive behavioral change among adolescent patients. This self-paced course provides an overview of motivational interviewing for the primary care provider with a focus on the spirit and principles of motivational interviewing, and examples of motivational interviewing strategies.
At the completion of this activity, you will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental spirit and principles of Motivational Interviewing.
- Describe the Motivational Interviewing approach to assessing readiness for change.
- Describe the Motivational Interviewing approach to building motivation and confidence for change.
Author/Presenter: Nicholas Weiss, MD is a PAL (Partnership Access Line) Program Consultant for Seattle Children’s Hospital. PAL supports primary care providers (doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants) with questions about mental health care such as diagnostic clarification, medication adjustment or treatment planning.
Great MINDS – AS3D Standardized Autism Screening Training
You can better serve the children in your practice and strengthen your familiarity with autism screening and the referral process by participating in this Great MINDS AS3D eLearning course. Presented by an experienced physician, this course covers:
- Why you should use a screening tool.
- How to integrate use of a screening tool into your practice.
- Appropriate documentation.
- Results, resources, and referrals.
At the completion of this activity, you will be able to:
- Improve autism screening in practices which serve children, including those in medically underserved areas, in accordance with AAP policy statements and Bright Futures guidelines.
- Describe strategies to conduct culturally appropriate universal development screening.
- Describe standardized autism screening tools.
- Explain proper documentation of screening tool use.
- Identify local community resources for autism evaluation and intervention.
- Summarize the evolving systems and supports for primary care providers around autism screening and connection to services and supports.
Adolescent and Maternal Depression – Screenings and Interventions
- Discuss the rationale for screening for both adolescent depression and maternal depression, as well as some specific rating scales
- Identify non-medication care steps for managing youth or parent depression
- Identify medication strategies for adolescent depression
July 2017: Well Child Care – Transforming Clinical Practices to Value-Based Care
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June 2017: Improving Asthma Care: Making a Measurable Difference
Learn what kind of asthma symptom questionnaires are validated and useful; spirometry best practices; a simple approach to applying the criteria for asthma severity and control levels; how to use asthma action plans; the importance of environmental triggers and the evidence for trigger reduction; the importance of asthma severity labeling for proper coding; and workflow and protocols for medication refills and home supplies.
April 2017: Know Your Patients, Improve Your Care
As you start working on quality improvements in your clinic, before you do anything else, you have to understand who your patients are. Learn how to analyze your practice and develop workflows to make sure your patient lists are accurate and that patients get the right care at the right time in the right place.
March 2017: You are the Key to HPV Cancer Prevention
*Note: For CME for this webinar, co-provided by WithinReach and Cardea, view the webinar via this link.
Low HPV vaccination rates in the U.S. are leaving boys and girls vulnerable to devastating HPV cancers. However, HPV vaccination could prevent most of these cancers. This course provides the most up-to-date information on HPV infection, related disease and cancers, vaccine recommendations, and vaccine safety and impact – plus evidence-based suggestions for successful HPV vaccine communication with patients and their parents, frequently asked questions that providers hear from parents, and suggested responses to common questions.
February 2017: Role of the Physician in Firearm Injury Prevention
What can be done to keep kids safe from firearms? Learn from one of the country’s top experts about current firearm statistics, the effects of gun laws on suicide and unintentional injuries to children, and the tools we have at our disposal to reduce firearm injury and death in our communities.