Training Resources for Office Staff

Implementing screening and assessment includes a number of steps in a clinical setting. The Screening and Assessment section focuses on the screening instruments that can be used for screening and diagnosis. The Implementation of Screening Tools page focuses on resources for appropriate use of the screening tools. This section, Training Resources for Office Staff, provides resources for training other office staff and health care providers in implementing screening, assessment, and surveillance activities.

Organizing Offices for Detecting and Addressing Developmental and Behavioral Problems

Building Your Medical Home Toolkit
The Toolkit is organized into six building blocks that provide guidance for Medical Home implementation with links to downloadable tools.

Bright Futures provides resource materials that focus on preventive care, screening and assessments, and health promotion. Helpful resources can be found at:

• Clinical Practice: Tool and Resource Kit
• Clinical Practice: Training and Implementation Materials
• Clinical Guide: Performing Preventive Services

The Developmental Surveillance and Screening Policy Implementation Project (D-PIP) selected 17 pilot primary care pediatric practices to implement the AAP policy statement, Identifying Infants and Young Children With Developmental Disorders in the Medical Home: An Algorithm for Developmental Surveillance and Screening. Following the project, information is being shared with pediatric clinicians and other health care professionals who are seeking to improve the delivery of developmental surveillance and screening.

Six Tips for Helping Parents Advocates for Their Child's Care
Spring 2011 SODBP Newsletter

Tips for Recognizing and Helping Children Who are Bullied
Fall 2010 SODBP Newsletter

Teaching Developmental-Behavioral Screening /Surveillance to Health Care Professionals
How to educate primary care professionals on screening.

Developmental Screening in Primary Care: A Short Overview of the Process, Challenges, and Benefits of Implementing a Screening Program
Spring 2009 SODBP Newsletter

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Developmental-Behavioral Screening
Fall 2007 SODBP Newsletter

Telling Parents about Your Screening Initiative
Fall 2007 SODBP Newsletter

Delivering Difficult News
Information for providers on delivering diagnosis/results to patients

Explaining the Results of a “Failed” Screen
Fall 2007 SODBP Newsletter

Interpreting Screening Tests to Families and Encouraging Follow Through
Tips for explaining screening results and recommendations to parents.

Information about Intervention Resources: Finding it, Maintaining it, and Using it
Fall 2007 SODBP Newsletter

Caring for Children with ADHD: A Resource Toolkit for Clinicians Available on the AAP Member Center or http://www.nichq.org/adhd_tools.html
This toolkit, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), includes diagnosis information, including the Vanderbilt Assessment Scales and scoring resources; treatment information; and parent information and support resources.

Sleep Log
Courtesy of Henry L. Shapiro, MD