Training the Future
The CDRC is committed to providing learning opportunities for clinicians, students, and anyone in our community interested in learning more about mental health and resilience. Through many of our programs, we are training the next generation of mental health care providers and increasing the quality of treatments to patients in North Texas.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The CDRC holds meetings for providers from all different disciplines to come together and learn about topics ranging from best treatment practices to new antidepressant medications.
Community Programming
We provide educational presentations to help raise awareness about the symptoms of depression, available treatments, and specific topics such as risk factors and warning signs for depression and suicide and recognizing depression in youth.
If you would like to know more, email us.
Junior Clinical and Translational Science KL2 Faculty Investigators
This two-year program is designed for junior faculty who show great promise toward becoming successful, independently funded clinical and translational science investigators. KL2 Scholar salary is partially supported by the KL2 grant. Six KL2 Scholars are supported each year for a two-year term.
NIH-funded (R25MH101078; MH Trivedi, PI) research track residency program.
TRAIN participants receive protected time to complete clinical translational didactics and research activities.
Training for school personnel to serve as Wellness Ambassadors seeks to provide initial support to struggling students, and work with students and their parents to identify important resources (whether it be physical or emotional) to get the student back on track. Part of the training will be to distinguish the level of intervention warranted, which could range from basic coping strategies to outpatient treatment or even hospitalization.
If you would like to know more, email us.
YAM Certification for Educational Professionals
Since the program began in 2016, the CDRC team has reached over 20,000 youth in over 1,100 classrooms with the YAM program. Due to the program’s success, the CDRC team has transitioned to training new facilitators to reach more students and create more sustainable school-based mental health programming.
Training Academy
From it's inception, the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care has paved new pathways for understanding, preventing, and treating mood disorders. Part of our next decade of work involves reimagining the conversation around mood disorders and mental health through sharing the knowledge, tools, and techniques learned (and validated) to a wider audience of clinicians, educators, and communities.
Professional Education
Professional education is a large part of our vision of a future free from the burden of depression, and our efforts at UT Southwestern to build a growing number of clinical and research professionals with the knowledge and skills to identify and treat mood disorders.
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