Fall 1999

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Articles

Board Certification Update
Developmental Screening
Using the Pediatric Symptom Checklist
FOPE II Survey Results
AACPDM Outcomes Program
Pediatric Undernutrition

Reviews

Song for Cecilia Fantini
Unhealthy Societies

1998 Award Recipients

Karen Olness, M.D.
Marian Wright Edelman, J.D.

In Memoriam

Katherine Bain, M.D. FAAP

Handouts

Pediatric Symptom Checklist
Dealing with Teasing

From the Editor

by Henry L. Shapiro, M.D. FAAP, St. Petersburg, FL

This has been an exciting year for developmental behavioral pediatrics. The sub-specialty has finally achieved board certification status. The Section membership and AAP leadership were instrumental in convincing the American Board of Pediatrics to strongly support the application for sub-specialty certification. For many of you this will mean facing an examination around the year 2002. For others it means that the future now looks brighter for the kind of work you do every day in your office. It means that we have a stronger voice for the needs of children with learning, behavior, and developmental problems within Pediatrics.

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics was one of the few specialties in the surveys from the Future of Pediatric Education II project that was widely thought to be in short supply. We hope that the new subspecialty status will help address that shortage. Dr. Des Kelly highlights survey results in this issue.

The Section will continue to emphasize education and advocacy for the generalist with the sub-specialty interests in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, as well as the interests of sub-specialists. You can count on the Section to take a lead in the development of review courses for those who want to take the certification exam. We will also advocate for our members who wish to establish credentials for examination.

Focus on Screening

We turn our attention to Developmental and Behavioral Screening with two articles and a questionnaire which you are free to use in your practice. The first article, by Dr. Michael Jellinek, describes the Pediatric Symptom Checklist, a widely used questionnaire for identifying emotional and behavioral problems in the primary care setting. Dr. Jellinek has generously provided his checklist, which is also available on the Pediatric Development and Behavior web site.

Dr. Frances Glascoe, who will also be speaking at the annual Section meeting, wrote an introduction to screening for the web site, and we are reprinting it here for those of you who do not yet have web access. We plan to develop further online resources learning opportunities related to screening in the office setting.

Advocacy

Children’s programs remain endangered. The programs in most need of support fall well within our area of interest — children with developmental, behavioral, and emotional problems. I encourage you to keep in touch with your Senator and Representative to keep the mental health parity legislation alive. Join the "Medical Home" movement sponsored by the Academy. A medical home is not a place but perspective on care. We need to also advocate for adequate reimbursement to provide enhanced services for children with special healthcare needs. This is not self-serving — it is serving children and families.

Also in this Issue

We feature an article by Dr. Charlene Butler from the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine on their developmental pediatrics outcomes initiative. This important project attempts to summarize research on outcomes of therapy to aid clinical decision-making and research.

Dr. Daniel Kessler provides an overview of the Transdisciplinary team process from his new book on Pediatric Undernutrition.

We include several book reviews, an overview of the Annual Meeting, and news from the Section Executive Committee. Dr. John Kennell profiles the 1999 C. Anderson Aldrich Award Winner, Dr. Karen Olness. We also profile Marian Wright Edelman, the 1999 Dale Richmond Award Winner.

We hope you enjoy the newsletter, and write to us with ideas for future newsletters. We will continue to publish this newsletter on the World Wide Web on the Pediatric Developments and Behavior Web site, http://www.dbpeds.org.

Internet Based CME

The DBP Discussion List has been very successful. It now features a regular discussion's based on a Challenging Case from the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics every other month. There are also frequent lively and in depth case discussions contributed by list members. There are about 300 members, and all members of the Section are welcome to join.

Continuing medical education credit is available. Because of Section sponsorship, Section members can earn two extra CME credits after paying the initial $20 registration fee, which includes two credits. Members can earn up to 10 hours of CME credit a year by participating in discussion and completing periodic evaluation forms online.

Read more at http://www.dbpeds.org/cme/

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