The Pritzker Lecture Series on Integrative Pediatric and Adolescent Health

Healthy Kids, Healthy Lives:
The Ecology of the Child: A post-modern view of pediatric and adolescent mental health

Children today face increasing challenges that can act as triggers for rising psychiatric symptoms. These range from reduced sleep, pressured school, disconnected family life, escalating obesity, depressed mothers, intrusive media and poor nutrition. In addition, there is a rapidly escalating use of psychiatric medications, yet a shortage of evidence about their effectiveness and safety. During this hour, Dr. Shannon will examine many of the assumptions built into our current system of pediatric and adolescent mental health, and will offer a new vision for the future. He will explain why we must take a broader view of children’s mental health and what this means for both parents and professionals.

Objectives:

Understand how the child’s brain is affected by mental health and environmental triggers.

Identify some pros and cons of our current diagnostic system in child psychiatry.

Learn common triggers for psychiatric symptoms in American children.

Date:	Monday, December 7, 2009
Time:	12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:	Herbst Hall, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion 1600 Divisadero Street, 2nd Floor
Fee:	FREE, Seating is limited. Please RSVP to reserve your seat.
Register/Info:	415-353-7785 or bernardc@ocim.ucsf.edu
Speaker:	Scott Shannon, MD

Shannon Scott Shannon, MD, ABIHM, has been instrumental in the creation of a holistic and integrative perspective in psychiatry for over a decade. Scott joined the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978 as a founding member and served as President from 2000-2001. Academic Press published his textbook, Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Mental Health in 2002. Rodale Press released his book for parents, Please Don’t Label My Child in 2007.

Recently, Scott started the country’s first academically based Integrative Clinic in Child Psychiatry at the University of Colorado-Children’s Hospital in Denver where he works as Assistant Clinical Professor. Beyond his private practice in Fort Collins, Scott also writes and teaches extensively. He has recently been named President Elect of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine.

This is the 4th lecture of the Pritzker Lecture Series on Integrative Pediatric and Adolescent Health, a project of the Osher Center's Healthy Lives, Healthy Families Program. Special thanks to the Pritzker Family Fund for supporting this event.