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Submit Your Abstract for the 2025 Annual Meeting
The theme for the 2025 APA Annual Meeting is "Lifestyle for Positive Mental and Physical Health.” Keep this in mind while crafting your submissions.
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Understanding Mental Disorders
Based on DSM-5-TR this book will help readers recognize symptoms, know when to seek help, and get the right care.
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2024 APA State Advocacy Conference
On Sept. 21 and 22 join us in Washington D.C. to develop effective legislative strategies to engage legislators on the challenges facing psychiatry.
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Members Course of the Month
Through this course you will gain insights into engagement as a key principle in addressing and healing the mental health crisis among Gen Z teens.
Upcoming Events
Stomping Out Addiction Stigma: Mindset is Everything
Review stigma related to addiction terminology and learn ways clinicians can reframe their mindset and use nonjudgmental clinically accurate terminology to promote equitable care for patients.
What is it like to be a psychiatrist in an integrated care setting?
Learn about different strategies for integrating care, discuss practical how-tos for integrating mental health and physical health care, and understand the impacts of integration on patients, psychiatrists, and other clinicians.
Stop the Disparity! Eliminating Seclusion and Restraint
Join APA on World Patient Safety Day for this webinar event that will cover mental health disparities related to the use of seclusion or restraint, evidence-based means of reducing or eliminating seclusion and restraint, and patient safety in psychiatry.
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Education
Patients & Families
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