Youth Mental Health Education Session: Anxiety Disorders in Youth
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Recurring Event
This accredited series connects pediatricians, family physicians, and nurse practitioners with local Maritime experts to explore key, clinically relevant topics in child and adolescent mental health.
Learning objectives:
- Apply current diagnostic criteria and validated screening tools to accurately identify Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. (CanMED Role: Medical Expert)
- Differentiate Anxiety disorders and common pediatric comorbidities such as ADHD, OCD, learning disabilities, ASD, mood disorders, to ensure an accurate comprehensive diagnosis. (CanMED Role: Medical Expert)
- Develop initial evidence-based multimodal treatment plan that integrates both pharmacological interventions and cognitive-behavioral strategies tailored to the patient’s developmental stage and based on treatment guidelines. (CanMED Role: Medical Expert)
- Manage the initiation, titration, and long-term monitoring of pharmacological treatment of anxiety
disorders, including the identification and mitigation of common side effects. (CanMED Role: Medical Expert) - Identify when to refer to specialized mental health and addictions services. (CanMED Role: Collaborator & Medical Expert)
Presenter: Dr. Alexa Bagnell
Dr. Alexa Bagnell serves as a psychiatrist at IWK Health and as a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Dalhousie University. She co-founded the TAG program and established Eastern Canada's first pediatric OCD clinic at IWK to provide evidence-based care for youth across the
Maritimes.
Educationally approved by Dalhousie University Continuing Professional Development and Medical Education.
This activity meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by Dalhousie University Continuing Professional Development and Medical Education for up to 1.0 Mainpro+® Certified Activity credits.This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by Dalhousie University Continuing Professional
Development and Medical Education. You may claim a maximum of 1.0 hours (credits are automatically calculated).