
Suicide and Anxiety
04/22/25 • 33 min
Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028
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
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)
CME Credits available: 0.5
To enroll for CME credit: visit our episode activity website. Visit our CME course overview page for details on CME credit, or complete this survey for social work CEUs.
Visit the Breaking Down Mental Health podcast website for more information about this episode and the series.
Breaking Down Mental Health is a part of the Michigan Medicine Podcast Network. You can subscribe to Breaking Down Mental Health podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Therapeutic Interventions for Pediatric Anxiety
Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028
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)
CME Credits available: 0.5
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Neurodiversity and ASD
Release Date: April 29, 2025 / Termination Date: April 29, 2028
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
To enroll for CME credit: visit our episode activity website. Visit our CME course overview page for details on CME credit, or complete this survey for social work CEUs.
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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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