- Suicide in Youth and Medical Professionals- available through September 30, 2024
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Teens and Young Adults: From Overwhelming Challenges to What Success Looks Like.- available through December 31, 2023
Suicide in Transitional Age Youth and Medical Professionals
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among people age 15 to 24 in the U.S. Nearly 20% of high school students report serious thoughts of suicide and 9% have made an attempt to take their lives. We also lose 300-400 physicians to suicide annually in the U.S.
While other countries have seen a decrease in suicide rates. Suicide rates in the United States have increased over the last 20 years. Most individuals dying by suicide do so on their first attempt and within a month of seeing their primary care physician. Suicide screening is an important way to identify and encourage individuals at high risk to pursue mental health treatment.
Join us to learn more about how you can identify and encourage individuals at high risk for suicide to pursue mental health treatment.
Program Agenda
- Introduction: Joshua Lowinsky,MD,DFAPA
- Suicide in Youth: A Pediatrician’s Perspective :Mary McAteer, MD
- Suicide in Youth: A Psychologist’s Perspective: Julie T. Steck, Ph.D., HSPP
- Suicide Case Scenarios Informed by Bothe Models of Suicide and Neurobiology: Joshua Lowinsky, MD, DFAPA
- Suicide in Physicians: Risk Elevation Begins in Training: Tracy D. Gunter, M.D.
- Suicide in a Physician Spouse : Margaret Watanabe, M.D., PhD.
- Suicide Panel Discussion: Gunter, Lowinsky, McAteer, Steck, Watanabe, West
Program Objectives
- List 3 groups of youth at risk for suicide
- Recognize the increased risk of suicide in marginalized populations
- Describe the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and suicide
- Identify the 3 necessary components of suicide in the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide.
- Name the 4 “trait domains” predisposing individuals to suicide
- List 4 risk factors (individual, social, occupational) for physician suicide
- List 3 systemic barriers to effective care in suicidal physicians
- Name 3 psychopharmacological treatments that demonstrate anti-suicidal properties across diagnoses
- Explain how the early diagnosis and intervention for mental illness might decrease the rate of suicide in the United States.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Teens and Young Adults: From Overwhelming Challenges to What Success Looks Like.
Autistic adults make up close to 2% of the population and have often not received a formal ASD diagnosis by the time they see a medical or mental health professional. ASD adults are at higher risk for a number of medical and psychiatric comorbidities including seizures, gastrointestinal disorders, metabolic disorders and sleep disorders along with mood, anxiety, ADHD, psychosis, addictions and suicide attempts and completions. Health care professionals, unless they have specialized training, are often woefully unprepared when it comes to identifying, diagnosing, allying with, and treating young adults with autism spectrum disorder! Both professionals and family members benefit from acquiring tools, methods and skills to effectively work with ASD patients.
Treating the comorbidities of ASD can be enormously helpful but medical professionals must understand that core neuropsychiatric/skill deficits in autism spectrum disorder are not amenable to pharmacologic intervention. Expectation adjustment/family and employer education, improving the goodness of environmental fit, and working with knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and empathic medical and mental health professionals/life coaches, help create an environment for long term success in the ASD teen and young adult.
This PCPF virtual enduring Continuing Medical Education (CME) series will be held between January 2022 and January 2024
Agenda
- Introduction -Joshua Lowinsky, MD
- Diagnosis of ASD Across the Lifespan -Anna Merrill PhD
- We have the Diagnosis…Now What?” – Cathy Pratt PhD
- The Intersection of ASD and Mental Health -Julie Steck, PhD
- Interviewing “Experts” Living with ASD – Joshua Lowinsky, MD
- Women on the Autism Spectrum: Identifying and Understanding the Female Phenotype of ASD-Anna Merrill PhD
- ASD, Gender Identity and Sexuality: A Nonjudgmental Dialogue – Julie Steck, PhD
- The Charm and challenge of ASD in the Family: Information for Healthcare Providers-Sandra Burkhardt, PHD. ABPP
Objectives
- List 4 identifying features present in young adults with ASD and 3 further features occurring more in females than in males with ASD
- List 2 resources to which medical, mental health, , families and patients can reach out
- List 4 identifying features present in young adults with ASD and 3 further features occurring more in females than in males with ASD
- List 2 resources to which medical, mental health, , families and patients can reach out
- Name 4 psychiatric comorbidities and 4 medical comorbidities that more frequently occur among young adults with ASD compared to the general population
- Describe features of sexuality and gender identity that are seen more in young ASD adults compared to non-autistic adults
- Name 3 powerful “truths” regarding living with ASD described by our “experts”
Accreditation
This enduring material has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) through the joint providership of Community Health Network and the Primary Care Psychiatry Foundation. Community Health Network is accredited by ISMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Community Health Network designates this enduring material for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.