Wellness Reminder

The American College of Physicians offers individual physician wellness and burnout tools. This includes CME eligible activities, TED talks, podcasts, wellness apps, tips and skills for enhancing wellness and medical humanism blogs. All of these resources are geared towards enhancing physician work satisfaction, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. 

Click here for more information

Child Psychiatry Corner

Depression is a major source of impairment and suffering and it is a major contributor to the 2nd leading cause of death among people ages 10-34 - suicide.

The good news is, when identified early, it is treatable through current medications and psychotherapy.

Click here for AACAP’s clinician depression resource center for children and adolescents.

Resource Highlights

The National Alliance on Mental Health is a grass roots organization developed for families of loved ones who have mental illness. Click here to see their family resource guide for adolescent depression. 

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's parent resource page includes basic facts, treatment options, books, apps and videos on adolescent depression. Click here to go to the resource page.

Mental Health Focus

In 2018, the Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC) were updated. GLAD-PC is a valuable resource for primary care providers including assessment and treatment guidelines, educational materials, screening materials, billing guidelines, and more.

Click here to go to the GLAD-PC Toolkit.

Click here to go to the Pediatrics journal article which discusses GLAD-PC.