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August 30, 2023

Nueva encuesta de la APA: la mayoría de los estadounidenses cree saber cómo acceder ayuda para un ser querido que tiene una adicción; define la recuperación como “ser capaz de funcionar mejor en la vida”

Casi tres de cada cuatro estadounidenses (81%) dicen que sabrían cómo ayudar a un amigo o familiar con la adicción, y la mayoría referiría a un ser querido a un tratamiento de recuperación (73%) y/o iniciar una conversación con ellos al respecto (74%). En el Mes de la Recuperación, la mayoría de los adultos encuestados (65%) afirmó que recuperarse de un trastorno por consumo de sustancias u otra enfermedad mental significaba “ser capaz de funcionar mejor en la vida”, cuando se les pidió que eligieran entre una variedad de opciones.

August 01, 2023

American Psychiatric Association Releases New Educational Resources on Maternal Mental Health

Annually, one in five childbearing persons in the United States experience a mental health or substance use disorder before, during, or after pregnancy .1-3 To ensure psychiatrists and mental health clinicians are best positioned to respond to this need, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), with support of the CDC Foundation, has released a series of educational materials for addressing perinatal mental health in its Psychiatric Toolkit. The toolkit includes eight fact sheets for clinicians and patients, a white paper and a four-part webinar series covering this understudied and underserved area of mental health. These materials can be accessed at APA’s Perinatal Mental Health website.

June 30, 2023

APA Journals Ranked Highly on Latest Scientific Literature “Impact Factor”

The American Psychiatric Association (APA)’s journals were well-represented in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics © 2023), in which journals are assigned “Impact Factors.” Impact Factor is a bibliometric calculation that describes the level of influence a journal’s published output has on the scientific literature by measuring how many times the work it publishes is cited by others.

June 29, 2023

APA Statement on Supreme Court Decisions on Affirmative Action

Race-conscious admissions policies are designed to address racial discrimination by recognizing and responding to the structural barriers that hinder access to higher education for underrepresented students. While the ramifications have yet to be fully determined, today’s decisions in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina undermine the ability of colleges, universities, and medical schools to build a workforce of healthcare professionals that can effectively treat the increasingly diverse body of patients they serve.

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