The PPN Disaster Mental Health ECHO Series provided a forum for pediatric primary care and family medicine clinicians (MD, DO, NP, PA) to confidently address disaster-related mental health challenges in children. Watch recordings of the educational portion of these sessions here to enhance your skills, support patient well-being, and help build a trauma-informed care system for children and families.
What You Will Learn
By engaging with this video series, you will be able to:
- Identify signs/symptoms of trauma, acute stress disorder, and PTSD, and triage accordingly
- Apply Psychological First Aid (PFA) techniques in primary care settings
- Describe anticipatory guidance and brief psychosocial interventions that can be implemented in the office visit promote emotional and behavioral regulation and well-being
- Recognize and address clinician burnout and compassion fatigue
- Develop safety plans and make referrals for patients in crisis
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Children's National Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Children’s National Hospital Accreditation Provider# 4008362.
Credit Designation Statements
Physicians: Children’s National Hospital designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses: Children’s National Hospital designates this activity for a maximum of 4.0 enduring ANCC contact hour(s).
Psychologists: Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. All confirmed participants will earn 4.0 CE credit(s) (Instructional Level, Intermediate Learning) upon successful completion of the learning event and evaluation.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Children’s National Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 4.0 general continuing education credits.
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
The planning committee and presenters have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
Acknowledgement of Financial and In-Kind Commercial Support
No financial nor in-kind commercial support was received for this educational activity.

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