Pediatric Behavioral-Mental Health: Depression by P. Chen, et al. | OPENPediatrics

This podcast discusses pediatric depression and its prevalence in children and adolescents. The authors look into the guidelines in place for screening for and diagnosing depression and they also discuss various antidepressants, along with their side effects. After listening to this presentation, learners should be able to: - Describe the prevalence of pediatric depression in children and adolescents - Apply the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (or AACAP) guidelines, the American Academy of Pediatrics (or AAP) guidelines and DSM-5 criteria to screen for and diagnose patients with depression - Initiate, titrate, and discontinue antidepressants for unipolar pediatric depression - Describe the common and serious adverse effects of antidepressants Publication date: May 5, 2022. Citation: Ivanova M*, Chen P*, Chase B, Moye B, Wills K, Blackburn K., Pediatric Behavioral-Mental Health: Depression. 5/2022. Online Video. OPENPediatrics. https://learn.openpediatrics.org/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/5230/pediatric-behavioral-mental-health-depression. *These authors contributed equally to this work Please visit: http://www.openpediatrics.org OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children’s Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open-access and thus at no expense to the user. For further information on how to enroll, please email: [email protected]