Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children, Teens and Young Adults

Pediatric patients have been affected by the COVID crisis but not in the way one would have predicted. We have had to learn as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyday some new information arises and sometimes causes us to pivot every 2 days, every week, each month. A significant issue has been the isolation, lack of separation and reduced exposure to novel situations that have all adversely affected children. From infants to young adults we have witnessed the rapid escalation in mental health effects. We have never faced anything like this across many generations in clinical staff serving pediatric patients. So we hope to learn more from Dr. Callanan who has intensively worked with patients and families affected socially and emotionally by this crisis. She will discuss the mental health consequences as we experience the pandemic and stressors it brings firsthand and ways to help and support patients. The lessons learned from this pandemic will hopefully help us to anticipate and minimize the stressors that have plagued the nation’s children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Target Audience

This program is intended for:

  • Physicians
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physicians Assistants 
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Mental Health Counselors

Learning Objectives

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbates existing mental illness and evokes anxiety, as well as other mental health consequences in otherwise healthy patients.
  • Describe how COVID-19 stressors impact functioning across age groups.
  • Plan strategies and techniques to support the social-emotional health of patients during this pandemic and others that may arise.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 LMHC

    MaMHCA, and its agent, MMCEP has been designated by the Board of Allied Mental Health and Human Service Professions to approve sponsors of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for licensure renewal, in accordance with the requirements of 262 CMR 1.00.

    This program has been approved for 1.00 CE credit for Licensed Mental Health Counselors MaMHCA.

    Authorization number:

  • 1.00 Social Workers

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the MGH Institute of Health Professions 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. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clock hours for continuing education credits.

  • 1.00 Participation

    This course allows other providers to claim a Participation Certificate upon successful completion of this course.

    Participation Certificates will specify the title, location, type of activity, date of activity, and number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ associated with the activity. Providers should check with their regulatory agencies to determine ways in which AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ may or may not fulfill continuing education requirements. Providers should also consider saving copies of brochures, agenda, and other supporting documents.

  • 1.00 Psychologists CE Credit

    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. MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 1.00 CE credit.

Registration opens: 
10/16/2020
Course closes: 
11/30/2020
Rating: 
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  • Presentation of cases - 5 mins
  • Discussion of emerging and exacerbating mental illness due to the COVID-19 pandemic, related dysfunction in different age groups and strategies to address the issues - 40 mins
  • Q/A - 15 mins

 

Course Director(s)

Clovene Campbell, MD, FAAP

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Speaker(s)

Rachel Callanan, PsyD.

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 LMHC

    MaMHCA, and its agent, MMCEP has been designated by the Board of Allied Mental Health and Human Service Professions to approve sponsors of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for licensure renewal, in accordance with the requirements of 262 CMR 1.00.

    This program has been approved for 1.00 CE credit for Licensed Mental Health Counselors MaMHCA.

    Authorization number:

  • 1.00 Social Workers

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the MGH Institute of Health Professions 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. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clock hours for continuing education credits.

  • 1.00 Participation

    This course allows other providers to claim a Participation Certificate upon successful completion of this course.

    Participation Certificates will specify the title, location, type of activity, date of activity, and number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ associated with the activity. Providers should check with their regulatory agencies to determine ways in which AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ may or may not fulfill continuing education requirements. Providers should also consider saving copies of brochures, agenda, and other supporting documents.

  • 1.00 Psychologists CE Credit

    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. MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 1.00 CE credit.

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