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Tech Trends 2023: What to Watch out for This Year in Digital and Telemental Health
The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and attendant regulatory flexibilities, have rapidly expanded the role of technology in accessing care while adding stressors for most of us.
Alcohol Use Disorder
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is when frequent or heavy alcohol drinking becomes difficult to control and leads to problems such as in relationships, work, school, family, or other areas. AUD is common and often goes untreated. There are treatments that work, including medication, therapies, and support/self-help groups.
Don't Miss Opening Session Featuring a Conversation with Emmy Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist Anderson Cooper
Join us for Opening Session, where Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” will join APA President Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., for a fireside chat covering mental health and other topics.
Health Care Coalition Submits Comments to Modernize SUD Treatment Privacy Law and Enhance Coordinated Care and Safety
The Partnership to Amend 42 CFR Part 2 (Partnership), a coalition of nearly 50 health care organizations committed to aligning 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2) with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for the purposes of treatment, payment, and health care operations (TPO), today submitted comments in response to the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), “Coordinating Care and Information Sharing in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders,” released by the Substance Abuse and
Opioid Response Network STR-TA
The State Targeted Response (STR) Technical Assistance (TA) project will launch 32 12-week virtual learning collaboratives on a variety of topics focused on using medication for addiction treatment (MAT) to treat patients with opioid use disorders.
Kempf Fund Award
The Kempf Fund Award recognizes research on the psychobiological, psychological, and/or sociological causes and treatment for schizophrenia.
Committee on Innovation
The Committee on Innovation, established under The Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning, seeks to identify and promote the formation of novel ideas to transform mental health care.
Supporting Mental Health Amid Global Conflict and Trauma
Anyone who follows current events will know that we are living in a time where traumatic and often violent incidents seem to be increasingly more common. Whether it is the fallout from a natural disaster, political strife, or military conflict, the mental health effects of these events can be long lasting and far reaching. One needs only to turn on the news to see a world that seems beset by sectarian violence and war. Political
Frank J. Menolascino Award
The Frank J. Menolascino Award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to psychiatric services for persons with intellectual development disorders/development disabilities, through direct clinical services.
Steven Starks, M.D., M.B.A., Assumes Office of APA Assembly Speaker
Steven Starks, M.D., M.B.A., DFAPA, began his one-year term as the Speaker of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly of District Branches at the close of the organization’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Manhattan.