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Screen, Diagnose, Treat

SCREEN, DIAGNOSE, TREAT

Screen

AAP Mental Health Minutes
Screening Tools
Faculty: Diane Bloomfield MD, FAAP


AAP Star Center for Screening

Getting Started: Setting up a Practice Screening Program: 
https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/screening-technical-assistance-and-resource-center/getting-started-implementing-a-screening-process/

Practice Screening Programs Checklist document:
https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/STAR/screening_getting_started_worksheet.pdf?_ga=2.205406357.466261514.1676482520-553955143.1676482520

https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/screening-technical-assistance-and-resource-center/screening-resource-library/


Medical Home Portal
https://www.medicalhomeportal.org/clinical-practice/screening-and-prevention/mental-health-screening-for-children-and-teens


Tennessee AAP Screening tool library: 
https://tnaap.org/resources/developmental-behavioral-health-screening-tools/


UMass iSPARC center screening guide:
https://www.umassmed.edu/globalassets/transitionsrtc/2022-images/docs/mental-health-screening-tools–a-guide-branded-09-07-22-v3-achecked.pdf

Diagnose

Books from AAP and elsewhere

Managing Mental Health Concerns in Pediatrics: A Clinical Support Chart [Paperback] – AAP

Mental Health Strategies for Pediatric Care [Paperback] – AAP

Zuckerman Parker Handbook of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics for Primary Care (Augustyn, Zuckerman from BU) https://a.co/d/cyVlDwO


AAP  Guidelines:

  1. Depression Diagnosis (GLAD PC I): https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/141/3/e20174081/37626/Guidelines-for-Adolescent-Depression-in-Primary

AAP EQIPP (content and QI modules)

  1. ADHD Diagnose, Treat, Monitor: https://shop.aap.org/eqipp-adhd-diagnose-treat-and-monitor/

MCPAP Diagnosis

MCPAP Diagnostic Resources (by disorder): https://www.mcpap.com/Provider/Overview.aspx

MCPAP Depression Guidelines for PCPs and Depression Clinical Pearls
https://www.mcpap.com/pdf/Depression%20Guidelines%20MCPAP%20Final%201-16-18.pdf and https://www.mcpap.com/pdf/DepPearls.12.05.18.pdf

MCPAP Anxiety Guidelines and Clinical Pearls for Primary Care Providers
Guidelines, click 
here
Clinical Pearls, click 
here

Treat

AAP Common Elements

https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/mhtk2e_commonelementsapproach.pdf


Shop AAP

https://shop.aap.org/mentalhealthtoolkit

Short framework for pediatric psychopharmacology from JHU: https://web.jhu.edu/pedmentalhealth/Psychopharmacolog%20use.html


NJAAP Webinars on Demand include treatment 
Mental Health On-Demand Webinars


2018 – 2019 Florida Best Practice Psychotherapeutic Medication Guidelines for Children and Adolescents (still very useful in practice)

2018 – 2019 Florida Best Practice Psychotherapeutic Medication Guidelines for Children and Adolescents

MCPAP Clinical Conversations (webinars) 

June 25, 2019: Common Challenges in Using Psychiatric Medications to Treat Youth: Special Considerations and Monitoring
By Yael Dvir, MD, MCPAP UMass Memorial Medical Center Site Director
View PowerPoint slideshow 
here.

October 25, 2018: Medical Monitoring of Psychiatric Medications;
Charles Moore, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, McLean Hospital
https://www.mcpap.com/pdf/ClinicalMoore10.18.pdf

The REACH Institute to Train Primary Care Pediatrician on Treatment
https://thereachinstitute.org/

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Cathleen Haggerty
Executive Director
chaggerty@mcaap.org
(781) 895-9852

Cynthia McReynolds, MBA
Program Manager
Immunization Initiative
cmcreynolds@mcaap.org
(781) 895-9850

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