COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
Up to 12 MOC (Part II) points in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program3 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
12 ACPE Credits
12.0 Contact Hours
12 CE Credits for Psychologists
12 ASWB ACE Credits
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
The purpose of these lectures is to teach appropriate, comprehensive, compassionate family focused and culturally competent medical care for patients with developmental behavioral and educational challenges. Through disease state education, physicians will feel more comfortable with the presenting conditions and will be able to incorporate evidenced based care, medical treatments and caring for those with these conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder in children and adults and ADHD.
Children with developmental disabilities represent a diverse population with a variety of causes, a variety of conditions and a wide range of developmental, behavioral, and medical manifestations.
The care of children with developmental disabilities, therefore, requires an appreciation of the complexities of diagnosis, and management involving medical care, promotion of optimal development and education, and attention to social, emotional, environmental and economic factors that influence the children, the family and the community.
This series of lectures will provide for the audience a framework for understanding the complex set of conditions characterized as developmental disabilities. In addition, there will be an orientation to the genetic and environmental factors that result in developmental disabilities and we will offer strategies for addressing these challenges to promote optimal health and well being for the children.
- History and Overview of Developmental Disabilities
- Appreciate the history of societal approach to developmental disabilities and have an understanding and an approach to management
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Prematurity and its Consequences
- Be familiar with the neonatal complications of prematurity and their long term consequences with and an approach to management
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Cerebral Palsy
- Be aware of the manifestations and an approach to management of cerebral palsy
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Children's Environmental Health
- Appreciate and understand the role that environmental factors play in the health and well being of children
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Children's Environmental Health Disparities
- Become aware of the factors that predispose to children's health disparities and develop strategies to reduce the disparities and promote health equity for all children
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Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Overview
- Provide comprehensive treatment approaches to children with ASD and their families Describe DSM 5 Diagnostic criteria for ASD
- Integrate screening for ASD in toddlers and in middle school
- Appreciate the mental and medical conditions commonly co-occurring with ASD
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Autism: Delivering the diagnosis and impact on the parents and family
- Provide comprehensive treatment approaches to children with ASD and their families
- Prepare appropriately for feedback sessions when delivering the diagnosis of ASD
- Understand the stages of grief encountered by parents at the time of diagnosis
- Appreciate the impact the diagnosis has on parents and the extended family
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ADHD: An Overview
- Provide comprehensive treatment approaches to children with ADHD and their families
- Describe DSM 5 criteria for ADHD diagnosis
- Provide developmental strategies to children and their families with ADHD
- Understand potential barriers to therapy adherence and 4. Consider ADHD presentation in girls
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ADHD in Adults
- Provide evidenced based diagnostic approaches to adults with ADHD and their families
- Describe DSM 5 criteria for ADHD diagnosis in Adults
- Consider ADHD presentation in girls., and 3, Know a ADHD diagnostic tool
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Management of Anxiety Disorders in children
- Differentiate between normal anxiety and anxiety disorders in childhood
- Implement anxiety screening strategies in practice
- Understand the medical problems associated with anxiety
- Implement developmental counseling strategies for anxiety in children in the office
- Appreciate integrative treatment strategies for anxiety in children