What Is Depression?
Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable.
Depression
Learn about depression, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to your questions.
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Federal Advocacy Conference
APA's Federal Advocacy Conference is a unique opportunity for psychiatrists to lobby members of Congress in our nation’s capital on the issues that affect mental health care.
Action Paper Central
An action paper is the product of an idea. Assembly members, representing and informed by their constituency, the members of their district branch, actively formulate these ideas into actionable tasks that the Assembly can review, debate, and vote on.
Governance Meetings
View information for APA members including meeting schedules, materials, and archives.
Health Services Research Awards
The Health Services Research Award honors an early career psychiatrist and a senior APA member for outstanding contributions to the field of psychiatric health services research.
Award for Research in Psychiatry
The Award for Research in Psychiatry recognizes a single distinguished contribution, a body of work, or a lifetime contribution that has had a major impact on the field and/or altered the practice of psychiatry.
Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster
The Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster is charged to encourage greater visibility for psychiatry and psychiatrists in organized disaster relief efforts and support efforts that accomplish this goal.
PCSS-MOUD Webinars
View APA's Providers Clinical Support System – Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (PCSS-MOUD) webinar series.
Member Resources
APA has updated the following resources to help members with the 2021 updates to documentation and billing for outpatient E/M services.
APA Public Opinion Polls
APA monthly and annual public opinion polls on anxiety, mood, workplace mental health, children's mental health, climate change, and more.
A Call to Action
APA members can log in to view this letter from APA CEO and Medical Director Marketa Wills, M.D., M.B.A.