Supporting Children Prescribed Psychotropic Medication
Description
Webinar Length: 60 minutes
Presenter: Kyle Smith, MD
Target Audience:
- Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
- Supervisors / agency leadership
Objectives:
- Increase familiarity regarding which medications are used in early childhood for common childhood diagnoses (ADHD, depression, and anxiety)
- Know which medication side effects to be aware of in preschool children on psychiatric medication, and how medication may impact children different than adults