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Get ready to join us at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting in New York City!
Mark your calendar for APA’s 2024 Annual Meeting. Join us May 4-8 in the vibrant city of New York for an eventful five days of impactful programming.
Get Ready: The Meeting is Just a Few Days Away
For 350+ days, the team at APA has worked hard to create a dynamic 2025 APA Annual Meeting that anyone in psychiatry can use to jumpstart a career, connect with colleagues, and find insights to help people in their care.
August Issues of American Psychiatric Association Journals Cover Alcohol Use Disorder, Interventions for PTSD and Psychedelics in Psychiatry
The latest issues of three of the American Psychiatric Association’s journals, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services and Focus are now available online.
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.
The Opioid Crisis: Impact, Challenges, and Paths to Recovery
Opioids are a class of drugs that include prescription painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone, illegal drugs like heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. These substances bind to opioid receptors in the brain, producing pain relief and euphoria. Prolonged use can lead to tolerance, dependence, and addiction, characteristic of opioid use disorder (OUD). Fentanyl, due to its potency, has played a particularly lethal role in the opioid crisis.
Nueva encuesta de la APA: Más que uno de cada tres hispanos se siente solo cada semana
En mayo de 2023, el Cirujano General de EE.UU. Vivek Murthy, M.D., M.B.A., calificó la soledad como una epidemia de salud pública, tan letal como fumar 15 cigarrillos al día. La última encuesta mensual de Healthy Minds de la Asociación Psiquiátrica Americana (APA) revela que, a principios de 2024, el 35% de los hispanos encuestados afirma haber experimentado sentimientos de soledad al menos una vez a la semana durante el último año, mientras que el 10% afirma sentirse solo todos los días.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)Extend Telemedicine Flexibilities Through 2024
On November 15, 2024, the DEA in concert with HHS issued a third temporary extension of COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled medications.
Un nuevo sondeo muestra que la mayoría de los creyentes buscaría atención de salud mental si se lo recomendara su líder religioso
Una encuesta publicada hoy por la Asociación Psiquiátrica Americana (APA) reveló que seis de cada 10 adultos (60%) están de acuerdo en que su fe o espiritualidad es un factor importante para apoyar su bienestar mental. A pesar de esto, entre los que pertenecen a una comunidad religiosa sólo la mitad (52%) dice que su comunidad religiosa habla de salud mental abiertamente y sin estigmas.
Suicidio y autolesión: las conexiones culturales pueden ayudar a proteger a los adolescentes hispanos/latinos hispana/latina
El suicidio es un problema creciente entre la población hispana/latina, particularmente en los jóvenes. La investigación descubre que los aspectos de la cultura hispana/latina, y sus conexiones familiares y comunitarias podrían ayudar en la prevención del suicidio.
Study Asks: Can a Hit Song Help Prevent Suicides?
In 2017, the song “1-800-273-8255,” by the hip-hop artist Logic, featured the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline phone number and a hopeful story of survival. A new study finds that this song was associated with a noticeable increase in calls to Lifeline and a reduction in suicides.
Remembering Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights Icon
Rep. John Lewis, the congressional leader from Georgia and lifelong advocate for freedom, equality and basic human rights for Black Americans and other underrepresented groups, died recently after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. His passing should cause us all pause to reflect on what he meant for this country and what he did to improve the lives of so many.
New Review Study: Neuromodulation Advances Offer Promise for Treating Depression
A new review study looking at the current state of neuromodulation therapies being used to treat depression, including rTMS, ECT and others, is available online today in the December issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry.