Posts by The REACH Institute
Patient-Centered Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care: One Physician’s Transformative CME Experience
A family physician based in Missouri, Dr. Barbara Miller is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and has been caring for patients of all ages for over two decades. With a background in rural family medicine, Dr. Miller is very familiar with working in spaces with limited access to specialists. “And…
Read MoreDiagnosing Seasonal Affective Disorder
“Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is more than just the winter blues,” explains Maureen Montgomery, MD, a pediatrician based in Buffalo, NY. “It’s a subtype of clinical depression that has very specific characteristics.” As the name suggests, SAD is a seasonal and cyclical type of depression. In most cases, SAD occurs during the fall and…
Read MoreAdult Behavioral Health in Primary Care
This innovative program increases clinicians’ comfort with assessing, diagnosing, and treating adult mental health concerns. Participants can earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ by completing the mini-fellowship components: (a) A dynamic three-day course, followed by (b) eight case-based, group learning calls. Only 5 spots available. Read more about the course here…
Read MoreKaylyn Springer
Racism as trauma: A pediatric mental health perspective
After learning about the alarming rise in suicide rates among Black children and adolescents, Brittainy Erby, MD, set out to understand the impact of racial trauma and how to improve pediatric patient care.
Read MoreWhen parents’ mental health affects children
“When we’re thinking about children’s mental health, we’re also thinking about the health of the family unit,” explains Alyx Holden, MD. “In order for children’s neurobiology to develop, they need the support and context of healthy caregivers.”
Read MoreAlex Coclanis
Managing challenging behaviors in children
“There is a lot of research on programs to help parents manage their children’s behavior. It is not complex for clinicians to learn key evidence-based principles and share them with parents, even in brief office visits,” explains Elena Man, MD, a board-certified pediatrician and faculty member at The REACH Institute. We asked Dr. Man to…
Read MoreMolly Macleod Prior
Addressing Trauma in Pediatric Primary Care
In this dynamic full-day, virtual workshop, participants will learn how to effectively detect and respond to trauma in the pediatric primary care setting. This one-day course will be followed by four, case-based group learning calls to help participants implement the principles learned during the workshop. Each video call lasts one hour. Participants can earn up…
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