Child Mental Health for Pediatric Clinicians
Child Mental Health for Pediatric Clinicians podcast - formerly PsychEd4Peds -is the child mental health podcast designed for pediatric clinicians - helping you help kids. The host, Dr. Elise Fallucco, M.D., is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and mom of three who teaches pediatric clinicians to identify, manage, and support kids and teens with mental health problems. Dr. Fallucco interviews experts in the fields of child psychiatry, psychology, and pediatrics to share practical tools, tips, and strategies to help pediatric clinicians take care of kids and teens.
Episodes
What do parents wish *all* clinicians knew about raising kids with ADHD? How can we ask more effective questions to learn about how ADHD symptoms are affecting a child's life at home and at school? We answer these questions and more in Part 3 of Child Mental Health talks w/ Parents about ADHD with Ashley and Lauren!
00:00 Advice for Parents and Clinicians
01:12 Advice for Clinicians from Ashley
05:17 The Importance ...
Dr. Elise Fallucco talks with parents and neurodiversity advocates Ashley and Lauren about the concept of 'masking' symptoms in ADHD. They discuss how children, especially girls, consciously or unconsciously camouflage their ADHD symptoms to fit into social norms, and the emotional toll it takes. Through personal anecdotes and reflections, Ashley and Lauren reveal how they identified masking in their childre...
Understanding ADHD from a Parent's Perspective
In This episode of Child Mental Health for Pediatric Clinicians, we begin a new series, 'Child Mental Health Talks with Parents,' featuring advocates Ashley and Lauren, who share their experiences raising children with ADHD. They discuss the creation of a Mental Health and Neurodiversity PTA committee, early signs of ADHD in their children, and practical ins...
In this episode, Dr. Fallucco dives into the nuances of ADHD in girls, explaining why it is so important to recognize girls with ADHD, how girls with ADHD present with different symptoms than boys, and why girls often go undiagnosed.
She highlights the importance of early recognition and treatment to reduce risks like suicide, drug abuse, accidents, and social struggles. Dr. Fallucco also discusses the subtle inatten...
Do you have patients with severe ADHD who are just not getting better? Did you know that they *might* have undiagnosed bipolar?
In this episode, Dr. Fallucco and Dr. John Walkup talk about how to distinguish bipolar disorder in children and teens from ADHD. They provide clinical pearls for clinicians and share examples from kids and teens with bipolar.
Some Key differences between ADHD and BIPOLAR highlighted inclu...
Have you ever wondered if one of your patients has bipolar? On this episode, we talk about the red flags for bipolar - and questions you can ask to determine whether they may have bipolar. We discuss key signs such as the inability to regulate upside mood, decreased need for sleep, hypersexuality, and grandiosity, providing concrete examples and questions to help guide your clinical assessment. Join Dr. Elise Fallucco...
Welcome to our new segment called Mystery Case Files where we walk through a clinical case that presents a bit of mystery. Using the latest research and evidence, we discuss practical approaches to help YOU care for your patients effectively.
This episode features the case of a nine-year-old boy with anxiety who develops new onset of behavior problems.
00:00 Introduction to Mystery Case Files
00:27 Today's Mystery ...
In this episode of Psyched for Peds, Dr. Elise Fallucco and her teenage son, Chase Fallucco, discuss the seasonal surge of mental health symptoms, termed the 'emotional flu,' impacting teenagers during October and November. They discuss:
** What are the symptoms and signs of the emotional flu?
** Why are October and November high-risk periods for the Emotional Flu?
** What can we ...
It's time to talk about the mental health impact of *parenting*... and what we can do about it. Join me and our special guest, Ashley, a working mom, as we explore practical tools and exercises to recognize and address signs of BURNOUT. This episode is for parents AND for all of us who need to take care of ourselves so that we can care for others. We talk about practical tools like:
** The stress conti...
If you think you may be experiencing burnout, what can you do? To answer this question, Dr. Fallucco discusses strategies to combat healthcare burnout with Dr. Jessi Gold, Chief Wellness Officer at the University of Tennessee Health System.
WE discuss:
* That systemic changes in Healthcare are urgently needed to reduce burnout.
* Individual strategies to address burnout in the current healthcare system incl...
HALF of all healthcare workers are Burned Out. But most of us typically power through without recognizing the classic signs. How can you tell when you're going through burnout? And more importantly, what is it about the culture of medicine and healthcare that increases our risk of experiencing burnout?
To help us sort through these issues and RECOGNIZE signs of burnout, we talk with Dr. Jessi Gold, Psychia...
Join us as we wrap up our first year of PsychEd4Peds and prepare for a summer break!
Check out our website PsychEd4Peds.com for more resources.
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Do you ever wish you had a child psychiatrist on speed dial? Well, now you can! This week, we talk about how to get connected to a Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program (PMHCAP) near you that offers:
* phone consultation with child psychiatrists to help you care for kids in your office
* care navigation services to help you find resources
I will walk you through what to expect when you call your loc...
In this episode, meet Dr. Lia Gaggino, pediatrician and host of the child mental health and clinician well-being podcast, Pediatric Meltdown. She shares resources and tips to help practicing pediatricians including her now podcast, Pediatric Mental Health: Building Better Workflows. This new podcast is about how to implement change in pediatric practices from how to get buy-in for change, set goals, and engage your ...
In honor of the release of Taylor Swift’s 11th album, The Tortured Poet's Department, this is a special episode where I am joined by my tween daughter Julia, to share highlights from Swift's albums as well as from PsychEd4Peds episodes. I bet you never thought about how the album, Red, is related to ADHD meds.
#childmentalhealth #swiftie #tsttpd #adhd #anxiety #parentmentalhealth
Check out our website PsychE...
Between 80-90% of US teens report that they use social media, but we are only beginning to understand how social media use affects mental health. I had the opportunity to talk about this with WAVYTV10 News Anchor, Sarah Goode. In this episode, I share clips from our conversation about how to help kids navigate social media, share tips for talking with teens about their social media use, and share resources to help fa...
Did you know that PARENTS of preschoolers are at HIGH risk for depression?
*In the first 4 years of a child's life, 1 in 10 dads and 1 in 4 moms experience depression.*
And depression in parents increased the risk of behavioral and emotional problems in children. In this episode, we talk about why and how to support parents of preschoolers... so that we can help preschoolers with their own social and em...
Around one and 10 preschool age, children, struggle with significant emotional and behavior problems, but it can be incredibly difficult to tell. How can you tell When a preschool age child might need further evaluation?
In this episode, we talk about how to use a brief tool to determine whether a preschools behavior is normal, or may benefit from further evaluation. This tool is called the brief early childhood s...
What is the most important thing the parents can do to help older teen athletes? How can we harness sports another activities to help kids develop true confidence? For answers to these questions join us as we continue our convo with grit.org’s Brian and Jen Harbin.
Guests: Brian and Jen Harbin are the leaders of grit.org whose mission is to improve, physical, mental, and emotional resilience in kids.
Check ou...
Do you want to learn strategies to help kids develop grit and character through sports and LIFE? We talk with Brian and Jen Harbin of Grit.org about how they use sports to help kids become more physically, emotionally, and mentally resilient. They share strategies about :
** Using mantras to help kids push through challenges
** How to shift your focus from WINNING to personal growth
** Training kids to fo...
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