Position Statement on Diversity and Inclusion in the Physician Workforce

Position Statement on Diversity and Inclusion in the Physician Workforce

Seclusion or Restraint

This resource document is intended to support psychiatrists and other healthcare clinicians who may utilize seclusion or restraint.

Position Statement on Discrimination of Religious Minorities

Position Statement on Discrimination of Religious Minorities

Gender identity disorder, Report of the APA Task Force on treatment of

After the announcement of the DSM-5 Work Group membership in May 2008, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) received many inquiries regarding the workgroup named to address the entities included under Gender Identity Disorder (GID) in versions III through IVTR of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders™ (DSM). These inquiries most often dealt with treatment controversies regarding GID, especially in children, rather than issues related specifically to the DSM text and dia

Physician wellness

Ongoing stressors in the lives of physicians across the life span raise the risk for burnout, stress related illness and impairment. Psychiatrists have a unique vantage point in contributing to the overall health and wellbeing of all physicians. Recent studies have shown that physicians who personally practice healthy behaviors are significantly more likely to advise their own patients to adopt healthy behaviors. It is therefore imperative to promote the overall personal health of physicians at

Position Statement on Physician Health Programs in the Treatment of Addiction and Substance Use Disorders

Position Statement on Physician Health Programs in the Treatment of Addiction and Substance Use Disorders

Position Statement on Recognition and Management of Addictive Disorders and Other Mental Illnesses Multimorbid with HIV

Position Statement on Recognition and Management of Addictive Disorders and Other Mental Illnesses Multimorbid with HIV

Position Statement on Competence Evaluation and Restoration Services and the Interface with Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems

Position Statement on Competence Evaluation and Restoration Services and the Interface with Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems

Position Statement on Conversion Therapy and LGBTQ Patients

Position Statement on Conversion Therapy and LGBTQ Patients

Addressing the Migration Emergency and Human Rights of Haitians

Thousands of Haitians are traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum in the U.S., with many settling in camps after being denied entry. The U.S. government is responding with the deportations of thousands to Haiti. These deportations put Haitians at risk of violence, being unhoused, and even death amid Haiti’s political, economic, and environmental crises.

Risk-Based Gun Removal Laws

In 2014, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) published a “Resource Document on Access to Firearms by People with Mental Disorders,”1 which addressed the complex relationship between firearms, mental illness, suicide, and violence. The document highlighted the limitations of existing legislative strategies, such as the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), in combating the problems of gun-related suicide and violence in the United States. It noted that registries like N

Psychiatric advance directives

Advance directives were developed in the context of end of life care and are generally associated with medical and surgical decision-making for permanently incapacitated patients. Within psychiatry, interest in advance directives has been expressed as a means of facilitating the treatment of individuals afflicted with serious mental illnesses (Appelbaum, 1979). These disorders are typified by recurrent episodes of severe, cognition-impairing symptomatology that often result in decisional i