Breaking Down Mental Health is a podcast for health care providers that bridges the gap between medicine and psychiatry. It focuses on equipping medical professionals with clinical guidance about various mental health topics from the very basic to the more complex, to better prepare all providers to answer the call to action during this mental health crisis within our pediatric population.
This podcast is hosted by a dynamic triad representing three groups of providers that support mental health consultations as Michigan Medicine's C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor Michigan.
Christina Cwynar, DNP, CPNP-PC, PMHNP-BC
Heidi Burns, MD, Clinical and Adolescent Psychiatry
Join us as we break down different aspects of mental health into manageable pieces and work to eliminate stigma.
To enroll for CME credit: visit our episode activity website. Visit our CME course overview page for details on CME credit, or complete this survey for social work CEUs.
Educational Planner: Christina Cwynar, DNP, CPNP-PC, Heidi Burns, MD, and Syma Khan, MSW
Disclosures: None of the planning team or speakers 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.
Season 3: Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028
ACCME Statement
The University of Michigan Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Michigan Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. After listening to an episode, use the link provided with the episode to claim the credit associated with each session.
Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative
Michigan Medicine is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative to sponsor continuing education for social workers for 1.0 Clock Hours per episode. Approved Provider Number for social work: MICEC 0056
To learn more about the podcast, visit our podcast website.
Michigan Medicine is the academic medical center for the University of Michigan. Breaking Down Mental Health is a part of the Michigan Medicine Podcast Network. You can subscribe to Breaking Down Mental Health wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Breaking Down Mental Health is a podcast for health care providers that bridges the gap between medicine and psychiatry. It focuses on equipping medical professionals with clinical guidance about various mental health topics from the very basic to the more complex, to better prepare all providers to answer the call to action during this mental health crisis within our pediatric population.
This podcast is hosted by a dynamic triad representing three groups of providers that support mental health consultations as Michigan Medicine's C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor Michigan.
Christina Cwynar, DNP, CPNP-PC, PMHNP-BC
Heidi Burns, MD, Clinical and Adolescent Psychiatry
Join us as we break down different aspects of mental health into manageable pieces and work to eliminate stigma.
To enroll for CME credit: visit our episode activity website. Visit our CME course overview page for details on CME credit, or complete this survey for social work CEUs.
Educational Planner: Christina Cwynar, DNP, CPNP-PC, Heidi Burns, MD, and Syma Khan, MSW
Disclosures: None of the planning team or speakers 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.
Season 3: Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028
ACCME Statement
The University of Michigan Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Michigan Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. After listening to an episode, use the link provided with the episode to claim the credit associated with each session.
Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative
Michigan Medicine is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative to sponsor continuing education for social workers for 1.0 Clock Hours per episode. Approved Provider Number for social work: MICEC 0056
To learn more about the podcast, visit our podcast website.
Michigan Medicine is the academic medical center for the University of Michigan. Breaking Down Mental Health is a part of the Michigan Medicine Podcast Network. You can subscribe to Breaking Down Mental Health wherever you listen to podcasts.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Featured guest: Cheryl King, Ph.D.
Objectives
· Differentiate the importance of assessing for suicidality and depression separately.
· Understand misconceptions about depression and suicide.
· Apply lethal means reduction strategies.
Resources
· Adaptive testing technologies (The CASSY) (Adaptive Testing Technologies)
· Risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)
· Turning a psychiatric crisis into a chance to prevent firearm injury
· Parents’ Guide to Home Firearm Safety (Injury Prevention Center)
· Prospective development and validation of the computerized adaptive screen for suicidal youth (JAMA)
· Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit (National Institute of Mental Health)
· Adolescent suicide risk screening: a secondary analysis of the SHIELD randomized clinical trial (Journal of Pediatrics)
Disclosures
Cheryl King, Ph.D. has disclosed a relevant financial relationship with: Adaptive Testing Technologies - Intellectual Property/Royalties, Conflict is relevant but is managed. This relationship is relevant, this company does work in the topic area. This relationship was managed by peer review and is free of commercial bias.
CME Credits available: 0.75
To enroll for CME credit, visit our episode activity website. Visit our CME course overview page for details on CME credit, or complete this survey for social work CEUs.
Visit our podcast website for more information about this episode and the Breaking Down Mental Health podcast series.
Breaking Down Mental Health is a part of the Michigan Medicine Podcast Network. You can subscribe to Breaking Down Mental Health podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.