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Treating Adolescents With Major Depressive Disorder

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With training and empathy, oral health professionals can provide quality care for adolescent patients with major depressive disorder.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
After reading this course, the participant should be able to:

  1. Describe the prevalence and rates of severe impairment of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents, and the effects of depression on daily activities and oral health.
  2. Explain common symptoms of MDD in this patient population, risk factors, and the role of screening in dental settings.
  3. Discuss clinical tools, techniques and treatments dental teams can use in support of adolescent patients with MDD.

This course was issued in March 2021 and expires March 2024. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.


Belmont Business Media is an ADA CERP-recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ada.org/cerp. Belmont Business Media Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Provider ID 317924
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Olivia Morsenti, RDH, BS, CDHC, is a student in the Master of Science in Dental Hygiene program at Idaho State University (ISU) in Pocatello. She can be reached at morzoliv@isu.edu.


JoAnn R. Gurenlian, RDH, MS, PhD, AFAAOM, is the director of education and research at the American Dental Hygienists’ Association and professor emerita in the Department of Dental Hygiene at ISU.


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