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Nature’s Benefits for Mental Health May Not Work So Well When Pressured
During the more than a year of pandemic restrictions, access to parks and other green spaces have been very important escapes for many, offering a place to go for exercise and social interaction when other options weren’t available. Fifteen national parks set new recreation visitation records in 2020, despite temporary park closures and restrictions in response to the pandemic.
Advocacy in Action: 2025 Update on Maternal Mental Health Priorities
Promoting federal legislation that improves health and mental health outcomes for underserved populations is an important component to APA’s advocacy mission.
What is Intellectual Disability?
Learn about intellectual disability, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to common questions.
How Digital Health Navigators Make Digital Health Work for Your Practice
Among the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it led to a swift and dramatic increase in the use of telehealth and other digital technologies.
What is Schizophrenia?
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Helping Residents Cope with a Patient Suicide
This information is intended to provide you with support, to help you learn from the experience of patient suicide, and to grow as a psychiatrist and as a person.
Internet Gaming
Learn about internet gaming, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to common questions.
What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to common questions.
APA Foundation Encourages Action with First Major Mental Health Public Awareness Initiative
The APA Foundation announces the launch of Mental Health Care Works, a new public awareness campaign empowering individuals to take the first step to address their mental health.
What Is a Substance Use Disorder?
Addiction is a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence. Learn more at psychiatry.org.
Media Advisory: New Polling Data, Experts on Alcohol Use Disorder Available from American Psychiatric Association
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) involves frequent or heavy alcohol drinking that becomes difficult to control and leads to problems in areas such as relationships, work, school, or family. It affects more than one in four people in their lifetime, and more than one in 10 each year. AUD is common and often goes untreated. Treatments for AUD include medication, therapies, and support/self-help groups.
American Adults Express Increasing Anxiousness in Annual Poll; Stress and Sleep are Key Factors Impacting Mental Health
The 2024 results of the American Psychiatric Association’s annual mental health poll show that U.S. adults are feeling increasingly anxious. In 2024, 43% of adults say they feel more anxious than they did the previous year, up from 37% in 2023 and 32% in 2022. Adults are particularly anxious about current events (70%) — especially the economy (77%), the 2024 U.S. election (73%), and gun violence (69%).