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Creative Arts: Enhancing Mental Health and Well-being
Creative arts are used in supporting mental health care in a variety of ways. Art therapy uses creative means to treat mental illnesses and improve mental health. It can involve various treatments, such as theater therapy, dance movement psychotherapy, music therapy, poetry, pottery drawing, painting and craft therapy. Art therapy uses integrative techniques to captivate the soul, body and mind in ways that verbal expression alone doesn't appear to (Shukla)
Practice Management Guides
Do you need help with common practice management issues? Discover APA's guides for many common problems facing psychiatrists.
Special Populations
Learn more about how to use the Collaborative Care Model in the treatment of special patient populations.
Feasibility and Effectiveness
Learn about telepsychiatry@s feasibility and effectiveness in APA@s Telepsychiatry Toolkit.
Health Insurance Coverage & Access to Care
As policymakers continue to debate health care reform proposals, APA is committed to legislative solutions that ensure benefits, coverage, medication, and access to substance use disorder treatment.
Military & Veterans Affairs
APA continues its efforts to ensure that quality mental health care services are readily available to our veterans. Filling the mental health needs of our nation@s military servicemembers, veterans, and their families is an extensive and ongoing issue.
A Child’s Home Environment Can Impact the Risk of Developing Depression
New research, published online today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, finds that children’s rearing environment has a meaningful impact on their risk for major depression later in life, and notes the importance supporting of nurturing environments when children are at risk . In the study, authors analyzed the health records of full and half siblings with at least one biological parent with depression who were raised by either their biological parents or in carefully screened adoptive homes
Childhood Disorders: Medication Guides for Parents
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) have developed Parents’ Medication Guides to help individuals make informed decisions about treating mental disorders in children and adolescents.
The Transformative Power of Music in Mental Well-Being
Music has always held a special place in our lives, forming an integral part of human culture for centuries. Whether we passively listen to our favorite songs or actively engage in music-making by singing or playing instruments, music can have a profound influence on our socio-emotional development and overall well-being.
Program Highlights
Find examples of the model being implemented across different service and payer types.
Well-being and Burnout
APA is committed to helping psychiatrists achieve well-being and addressing individual and system-level challenges which contribute to professional burnout.