Diagnosing and Managing Seasonal Depression in Primary Care

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to screen and diagnose depression in pediatric primary care
  • How to differentiate between Seasonal Affective Disorder vs. MDD vs. situational depression
  • Understand basic principles of non-pharmacologic therapy for depression, including the seasonal subtype, in children and adolescents
  • Understand how to implement and monitor medications to treat depression in children and adolescents

Addressing Child and Adolescent Depression in the Primary Care Setting

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to identify children and adolescents who need treatment for symptoms of depression
  • Basic principles of therapeutic treatment of depression in children and adolescents
  • How to implement and monitor medications to treat depression in children and adolescents