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Viswanathan Family Lifestyle Medicine and Psychiatry Award
Established through an endowment to the APA Foundation in July 2024, this award reflects the Viswanathan Family’s deep interest in and passion about the intersection of lifestyle factors on mental and physical well-being and illness.
Council on Geriatric Psychiatry
The Council on Geriatric Psychiatry focuses on the special mental health needs of older adults.
Advocacy Issues
Learn about advocacy issues related to telepsychiatry in APA@s Telepsychiatry Toolkit.
New Research Identifies Critical Gaps in Mental Health Care for Adults with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
New research finds that adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have high rates of comorbid mental and substance use disorders and significant social and economic disadvantages, and only 26% received minimally adequate treatment. Meeting the needs of people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders will require innovative interventions and implementation to improve access to and use of evidence-based approaches, the authors argue. The research was published today in Psychiatric Services in Adva
When Your Child Becomes a Transitional-Aged Youth: Advice for Families
For parents for teens and young adults with chronic mental illness, the period of transitioning into adulthood can be particularly emotional. Caregivers may experience fears and frustrations in trying to keep their loved one stable and safe, yet understand that they must slowly relinquish control as their loved one transitions into adulthood.
Committee on Telepsychiatry
The Committee on Telepsychiatry is charged with advising leadership and stakeholders, including developing educational tools and resources for members, on the technical, regulatory, and clinical landscape of interactive technology in the practice of psychiatry.
APA Celebrates One Year of LaSaludMental.org, Spanish-language Mental Health Resource Site, During Hispanic Heritage Month
The first day of Hispanic Heritage Month this year marks one year since the American Psychiatric Association (APA) launched LaSaludMental.org, the organization’s first website dedicated to providing evidence-based information and culturally competent resources in Spanish on mental health and addiction.
Visual and Non-Verbal Aspects in Telepsychiatry
Learn about visual and non-verbal aspects of telepsychiatry in APA@s Telepsychiatry Toolkit.
Helping Patients Cope with Emotional Reactions to Climate Change: Advice for Mental Health Clinicians
Climate change is not easy for the human mind to understand. It has qualities, like its enormous scale, complexity and uncertainty, that make it hard to comprehend. Greenhouse gases are invisible, and what is happening on one part of the planet is not happening on another: you can’t “see” it.