ADOLESCENT

DEPRESSION
COURSE
A S H L E Y B A R B E R , D N P, C P N P - P C , P M H S
 “This course provides comprehensive guidance on
assessing, screening, managing, treating, and
providing follow-up care for adolescent depression.
It covers key topics including risk assessment,
Course diagnostic tools, evidence-based treatment

Description modalities, and strategies for ongoing monitoring

and support. Students will gain essential skills and
(75 Words)
knowledge to effectively address the complexities of
adolescent depression in clinical practice, with a
focus on promoting positive mental health outcomes
for adolescent patients.”

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 • Explain the process of using the Patient Health
Questionnaire-9 Modified for Adolescents (PHQ-9M) to
screen for adolescent depression

• Differentiate between mild, moderate, and severe

depression

• Assess for depression in adolescent patients by use of

interviewing skills

Learning • Prescribe a treatment plan for the adolescent patient

Outcomes with depression

• Propose a follow-up plan for the adolescent patient with

depression

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 Course Content

LEARN THE IMPORTANT SKILLS THE KNOWLEDGE OF UNDERSTANDING LEARN OWN CONFIDENCE IN ABILITY
HOW EXACTLY TO PERFORM AN TO APPROPRIATELY ASSESS,
OF ASSESSING, SCREENING, APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT, INITIATE
MANAGING, TREATING, AND SCREEN, MANAGE, TREAT, AND
THE CORRECT SCREENING TOOL,
FOLLOW-UP WITH ADOLESCENT
FOLLOW-UP CARE FOR MANAGE APPROPRIATE CARE, SELECT A
TREATMENT PLAN IF NECESSARY, AND PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH
ADOLESCENT PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION.
FOLLOW-UP AS APPROPRIATE.
DEPRESSION.

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 Learning
Environment
Audience
• Healthcare workers
• Students within the Family
Nurse Practitioner degree track
at Kennesaw State University
• Any experience level
• Any specialty area
Modality Preparation
• Ten learners are expected in this • No preparation needed
class
• No required readings prior to
• Taught at the graduate level course
• Approximately eight hours in
length and will consist of a
single day
• In-person course that is optional
for students to take
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 Constructivist
Learning Theory

• Learning as an active process with

collaboration between student and
teacher
Learning • Teacher is a facilitator or “guide on
the side”
Theory

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 Lecture with Unfolding Case Study
(5 Hours)
• Defining adolescent depression with common
symptoms
• Assessment skills and proper screening tool
• Managing depression
• Treatment options
• Appropriate follow-up care

Simulation
Teaching (1 Hour)
Strategies • Standardized adolescent patient
• Practice learned skills

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 Case Study (30 Minutes)
• Determine differential diagnoses,
• Recognize key information that requires
further questioning and/or determine
what further information is needed
• Determine diagnosis
• Decipher what additional
assessment/information is needed based
on diagnosis
• Create a management, treatment, and
Assessment follow-up plan for the patient

Strategies Quiz (30 Minutes)

• 10 Questions
• Need an 80% average to pass the course
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 This course is intended to help aspiring
advanced-practice providers attain the
knowledge and ability to care for a much
needing field within the healthcare
system.

Conclusion Sadly, adolescent depression is expected

to continue rising in the coming years.

Within this course, the hope is that

learners will leave with the confidence to
help, change, and integrate the field of
mental health nursing care into their
future practice and scope.
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 Q U E S T I O N S ?
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