Activity Date: 10/03/2025
Date: Friday, 10/03/2025
Time: 1:30 PM (view in the schedule)
If you are a pharmacist, nurse practitioner, or other health care professional involved in the comprehensive medication management of individuals living with mental health and/or substance use disorders, we invite you to participate in this online course.
Social media platforms are integral to the lives of most children and adolescents. Teenagers find it difficult to give up social media, but a study highlighted in the 2021 Surgeon General’s Advisory found that daily social media use is associated with a 44% rate of moderate to severe depressive symptoms among teenagers and young adults. Despite this, 43% of that same population report that social media helps them feel better when anxious or depressed, indicating social media can provide avenues for connection and interaction that some find helpful or fulfilling. There is also increased access to other technologies, such as smartphones, video games, and internet, which have similarly been shown to increase risk for mental health disorders. This session will help psychiatric pharmacists better understand social media/technology prevalence in pediatric populations, assess its impact on mental health, and strategize ways to combat its potential harms.
To receive ACPE credit for this session, you must:
Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported within 24 hours to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online in their ACPE Transcript.
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Yolanda Evans, MD, MPH
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The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
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