Release Date: April 29, 2025 / Termination Date: April 29, 2028

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Featured Guest: Ashley Ellis, Learning Specialist, Michigan Medicine

Objectives

• Define IEPs vs. 504 plans.
• Build evidence-based IEP/504 plans based on diagnosis.
• Aide families in navigating the IEP/504 systems.

Resources

• What is IDEA? A guide for educators and parents. (We Are Teachers)
• What is FAPE and how is it different from inclusion? (We Are Teachers)
• Education-based evaluations for autism spectrum disorder. (The Michigan Autism Council)
• Differences between a 505 plan and an individualized education program (IEP). (National Education Association)
• How to get help when your student is struggling in school. (Student Advocacy Center of Michigan) 

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Release Date: April 29, 2025 / Termination Date: April 29, 2028

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Featured Guest: Kimberley Levitt, MD

Objectives

• Define the diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Understand varying presentations of ADHD including hyperfocus and agitation.
• Apply principles of psychopharmacology for the management of ADHD.

Resources

• Stimulant rebound: how common is it and what does it mean? (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology)
• Meta-analysis: Risk of tics associated with psychostimulant use in randomized, placebo-controlled trials. (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Hyperfocus: the ADHD phenomenon of hyper fixation. (Attitude)
• ADHD and behavior problems. (Child Mind Institute)
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Neurobiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – a primer. (Pscyh Scene Hub).
• ADHD Neuroscience 101. (Attitude)

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Release Date: April 29, 2025 / Termination Date: April 29, 2028

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Featured Guests: Hannah Reynard, DO, MSc

Objectives

• Define sensory processing disorder and the subtypes.
• Discuss screening for sensory processing disorder.
• Integrate different treatment modalities based on subtype.
• Define the diagnostic criteria for dyspraxia, dyscalculia, and dyslexia.
• Determine appropriate treatment/support modalities.

Resources

• Sensory Processing Disorder Explained. (Child Mind Institute)
• Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). (Irish Neonatal Health Alliance)
• Developmental reading disorder. (National Library of Medicine) 

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Release Date: April 29, 2025 / Termination Date: April 29, 2028

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Featured Guests: Tiffany Munzer, MD

Objectives

• Define neurodiversity.
• Understand the differences between various presentations of neurodiversity including autism spectrum disorders (ASD), dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dyslexia, ADHD, and sensory processing disorders.
• Define the diagnostic criteria for ASD.
• Discuss screening tools for ASD.
• Determine barriers to diagnosis and care.
• Apply principles of psychopharmacology for the support of individuals with ASD.
• Apply evidence based behavioral principles.

Resources

• What is neurodiversity? (Harvard Health Publishing: Harvard Medical School)
• Rosenberg’s Molecular and Geneic Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases. (Chapter 18: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Considerations, pp. 197-207.

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Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028

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Featured Guests: Jami Socha, PhD, and Christina Laitner, PhD

Objectives

• Understand the relationship between anxiety and suicidality.

Resources

• Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents, Kids in Crisis, pp. 1-11. (American Psychiatric Association)
• Parenting a Teen who has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges. (New Harbinger Publications)

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Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028

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Featured Guest: Emily Bilek, PhD

Objectives

• Review the application of cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety.
• Integrate the use of exposure response prevention therapy into OCD treatment.

Resources

• Behavioral treatment for kids with anxiety. (Child Mind Institute)
• Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxious children: From evidence to practice. (Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing)
• Cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. (Comprehensive Psychiatry)

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Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028

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Featured Guest: Megan O’Connell, PharmD, BCPP

Objectives

• Review the use of SSRIs for management of various anxiety disorders in pediatric patients.
• Review the use of SNRIs for the management of various anxiety disorders in pediatric patients.
• Apply the use of benzodiazepines for the acute management of anxiety.
• Apply the use of other non-benzodiazepine as needed medications for anxiety including hydroxyzine.

Resources

• Practical Psychopharmacology Translating Findings From Evidence-Based Trials into Real-World Clinical Practice. (Cambridge University Press)
• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications. (4th edition) (Cambridge University Press)
• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide. (5th ed.). (Cambridge University Press)
• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber's Guide Children and Adolescents. (1st edition) Cambridge University Press.

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Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028

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Featured Guest: Dr. Christina LaRose

Objectives

• Apply the diagnostic criteria of major anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, specific phobias, PTSD, and unspecified anxiety.
• Determine age appropriate screening tools for anxiety disorders.

Resources

• Quick guide to anxiety in children. (Child Mind Institute, 2024)
• The generalized anxiety disorder 7-item (GAD-7) scale in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder: signal detection and validation. (Annual Clinical Psychiatry)
• The management of anxiety and depression in pediatrics. (Cureus) 

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Featured guest: Dawn Dore-Stites, Ph.D.

Objectives

· Understand the interplay between depression and sleep.

· Review non-pharmacological interventions for insomnia.

· Understand how cognitive behavioral therapy can improve sleep.

· Review possible medications for insomnia.

Resources

· Effectiveness of clonidine in child and adolescent sleep disorders (Psychiatry Investigations)

· Pharmacotherapy for insomnia in children and adolescents: a rational approach (Uptodate)

· Time for bed: parent-set bedtimes associated with improved sleep and daytime functioning in adolescents (Sleep)

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Featured guest: Daniel Maixner, M.D.

Objectives

· Define treatment resistant depression.

· Define electroconvulsive therapy, and its risks, benefits, and rationale for treatment modality.

· Define transcranial magnetic stimulation, and its risks, benefits, and rationale for treatment modality.

· Define ketamine therapy for treatment resistant depression, and its risks, benefits, and rationale for a treatment modality.

Resources

· Systematic review: electroconvulsive therapy for treatment-resistant mood disorders in children and adolescents (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

· Transcranial magnetic stimulation for adolescent depression (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics)

· Efficacy of intravenous ketamine in adolescent treatment-resistant depression: a randomized midazolam-controlled trial (American Journal of Psychiatry)

· Annual research review: defining and treating pediatric treatment-resistant depression (Journal of Child Psychology Psychiatry)

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