Continuing Education for Healthcare Professionals
Depression in Children and Adolescents
Depression in Children and Adolescents
Presented by:
- Lidija Petrovic-Dovat, MD, DFAACAP
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Original recording: Feb. 11, 2026
Expiration date: This recorded presentation will provide CME credit or NCPD contact hours until Sept. 30, 2026.
This activity will provide healthcare professionals with information regarding pediatric depressive disorders risk factors, screening methods, effects on functioning, and guidelines for care and treatment.
Target audience: Pediatricians, primary/family physicians and advanced practice providers, residents, nurses, students, and others interested in the health and well-being of children.
All of these types of healthcare professionals may care for children who might be at risk for depressive disorders.
Continuing Medical Education Information
Designation
The Mount Nittany Medical Center designates this activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
This program meets the criteria for one of the 12 hours required in patient safety/risk management as defined by the Pa. State Board of Medicine.
Accreditation
The Mount Nittany Medical Center is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
NCPD information
Contact hours
This activity provides one nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) contact hours.
Mount Nittany Medical Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Completion criteria
In order to obtain CME or NCPD credit you must:
- View the entire presentation recording.
- Complete and submit the post-activity evaluation by Sept. 30, 2026.
FACULTY DISCLOSURE and COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
None of the other planners, faculty, or others in control of content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
This activity received no commercial support or sponsorship.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Chelsea Aukerman
Continuing Education Coordinator
Chelsea.Aukerman@mountnittany.org
814.234.6762
