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Teasing Out Trauma: A Systematic Approach to Integrated Primary Care



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Description

The session will provide a short review of child traumatic stress, including approaches to identify concerns and evidence-based treatments. We will review a framework that provides a singular approach for responding to youth who have been screened for trauma, including how to discuss traumatic stress, how to teach helpful coping strategies, and how to encourage pursuing treatment when necessary. Finally, cases will highlight the clinical questions and considerations when adolescents screen positive for traumatic stress AND concerns of depression, anxiety and/or suicidality. 

 At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:  

  • Identify the overlap between traumatic stress and other common mental health concerns treated in primary care
  • Discuss approaches to differentiate traumatic stress from depression and anxiety concerns
  • Illustrate treatments for trauma-exposed children with and without traumatic stress 

AzAAP gratefully acknowledges financial support for this PMHCA series from Vitalyst Health Foundation.

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Faculty

FACILITATOR: Lara Yoblonski, MD, FAAP, MPH, Pediatrician, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee Chair's Profile

FACILITATOR: Lara Yoblonski, MD, FAAP, MPH, Pediatrician, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee Chair


Dr. Yoblonski has worked at Phoenix Childrens Hospital in the Homeless Youth Outreach program and the Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing for the past eleven years. She currently works with homeless youth and families, foster children and youth, and survivors of sex trafficking. Trauma informed care is an area of interest due to the patients she works with. She has been working with the AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee for the past two years.


EXPERT FACULTY: Brooks Keeshin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah's Profile

EXPERT FACULTY: Brooks Keeshin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah


Dr. Keeshin is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and the Associate Vice Chair of Research in Child Mental Health at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute.  He is a child abuse pediatrician and child psychiatrist, providing clinical care to children and adolescents with histories of child abuse and other traumatic experiences at Primary Children’s Center for Safe and Healthy Families. Dr. Keeshin receives funding for research and projects from SAMHSA, PCORI, NIMH and the State of Utah, all in the areas of trauma and suicide prevention. For example, Dr. Keeshin directs Pediatric Integrated Post-trauma Services (PIPS), a SAMHSA funded center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network focused on empowering frontline pediatric providers to detect and respond to youth at risk for traumatic stress and suicide. Dr. Keeshin is the co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child Maltreatment and Violence Committee and is a member of the AAP Council on Healthy Mental and Emotional Development Executive Committee.