Breaking Down Mental Health

Featured guest: Nicole Figueroa, RN, MSN

This episode will focus on stigma in mental health including access to care, bias, and a focus on vulnerable populations. Discussion will focus on strategies to normalize engagement in mental health and reducing stigma.

Objectives:

• Define the impact of stigma on mental health treatment
• Identify how bias toward individuals with mental illness impacts medical treatment
• Demonstrate strategies to reduce mental health stigma in medical settings

Resources:

• What is stigma? Why is it a problem? (NAMI)
• Mental wellness in the black community (NAMI)
• Mental Wellness in the Latinx Community (NAMI)
• Stigma, prejudice and discrimination against people with mental illness (American Psychiatric Association)

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Featured guest: Victor Hong, M.D., Department of Psychiatry

This episode will center on the distinction of mental health care for adults vs. children. An overview of admissions and legal process for adults and children will be discussed, along with an explanation of how guardianship is utilized in the mental health system.

Objectives:

• Describe the commitment process for adults
• Differentiate between admission for a child vs. adult
• Explain how guardianship applies in mental health settings

Resources:

• What types of mental health services are available? (Michigan.gov)
• Adult involuntary forms
• Petition for mental health treatment
• Clinical certificate
• Protected personal identifying information
• Pediatric admission resources
• Having a child in emergency inpatient treatment (Child Mind Institute)
• What to expect during an inpatient stay (NAMI)

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Featured guest: Amy VandenBerg, PharmD, BCPP

Objectives

· Identify appropriate selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the management of depression in pediatric patients and how they work.

· Identify appropriate serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors for the management of depression in pediatric patients and how they work.

· Discuss the black-box warning associated with these medications.

· Identify symptoms of serotonin syndrome.

· Identify symptoms of discontinuation syndrome.

Resources

· Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (StatPearls)

· Demystifying serotonin syndrome (or serotonin toxicity) (Canadian Family Physician)

· Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

· Antidepressants and the FDA’s black-box warning: determining a rational public policy in the absence of sufficient evidence (AMA Journal of Ethics)

· Serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors: a pharmacological comparison (Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience)

CME Credits available: 0.5

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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.

CME Credits available: 0.75

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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)

CME Credits available: 0.5

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