The Primary Pediatric Psychopharmacology (PPP) Program
Participants learn the core essential skills of evidence based practices in pediatric pharmacology:
- Identify and differentiate child mental health problems such as childhood depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, anxiety states (including PTSD), oppositional and conduct disorders and psychosis
- Properly differentiate and distinguish child mental health problemsfrom normal developmental variations
- Effectively manage pediatric psychopharmacology, including:
- selecting medications for individual patients
- initiating and tapering dosages
- monitoring improvements
- identifying and minimizing side effects
- Create and implement a treatment plan using existing resources, including learning how to delegate tasks to a treatment team composed of family members, school personnel and other professional caregivers