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Position Statement on the Need to Maintain Immediate and Long-Term Inpatient Care Access for People with Serious Mental Illness
Position Statement on the Need to Maintain Immediate and Long-Term Inpatient Care Access for People with Serious Mental Illness
Position Statement on Need to Monitor Public Health Consequences of Legalizing Cannabis
Position Statement on Need to Monitor Public Health Consequences of Legalizing Cannabis
Harm Reduction
Harm reduction is an evidence-based, standard-of-care approach that aims to reduce the harm that patients experience while using substances. It recognizes that the use of substances is an inherent component of substance use disorder and that some ways of using illicit substances are less harmful to patient medical, social, and psychological health than others.
Consensus statement on "Managing the risks of repetitive transcranial stimulation"
In response to the changing managed care environment, the APA Committee on Managed Care established a subcommittee to document the changes in managed care and to begin the process of thinking about alternative healthcare financing systems. The Committee undertook writing a resource document for APA members to identify and describe the changes that are occurring in the healthcare sector and to prepare them for changes that may occur so that psychiatry can be proactive in meeting these challenges
Position Statement on Housing, Homelessness, and Mental Health
Position Statement on Housing, Homelessness, and Mental Health
Non-Emergency Involuntary Medication for Mental Disorders in U.S. Jails
Psychiatrists who work in jail settings will encounter patients for whom the administration of non-emergency involuntary medication is clinically indicated for the stabilization of their serious mental illness. This resource document is intended to guide psychiatrists in decision-making about non-emergency involuntary psychiatric medication administration in U.S. jails by providing background information and highlighting issues for consideration.
Brain imaging and child and adolescent psychiatry with special emphasis on SPECT
Although knowledge is increasing regarding specific pathways and specific brain areas involved in mental disease states, at present the use of brain imaging to study psychiatric disorders is still considered a research tool. Continued study of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders using a variety of brain imaging methods, as well as refinements in imaging techniques, may result in evidence supporting the utility of these tools for clinical work in the future. Imaging research cannot yet be
Alternatives to managed care
Although knowledge is increasing regarding specific pathways and specific brain areas involved in mental disease states, at present the use of brain imaging to study psychiatric disorders is still considered a research tool. Continued study of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders using a variety of brain imaging methods, as well as refinements in imaging techniques, may result in evidence supporting the utility of these tools for clinical work in the future. Imaging research cannot yet be
Position Statement on Universal Health Care in the United States
Position Statement on Universal Health Care in the United States
Education and Training for Substance Use Disorders
Current training of physicians in the recognition and treatment of substance use disorders (SUD) is inadequate to meet the needs of such a diverse and growing population of patients. Medical schools, physician training (residency) programs, and continuing education programs for physicians in practice, provide limited training in the treatment of SUDs. The scope of training on SUDs is disproportionate to the population health need to address these problems, and many with SUDs go undiagnosed and u
Position Statement on the Endorsement of the U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Position Statement on the Endorsement of the U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child