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Submit Your Abstract for the 2025 Annual Meeting
This year's theme is "Lifestyle for Positive Mental and Physical Health.” Keep this in mind while crafting your submissions.
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Understanding Mental Disorders
Based on DSM-5-TR this book will help readers recognize symptoms, know when to seek help, and get the right care.
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Using Injectable Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder
Register today for this free, four-part virtual learning collaborative beginning Sept. 20.
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Members Course of the Month
Learn more about critical period of early psychosis, where patients face increased risks of violence, legal involvement, and suicide.
Upcoming Events
What is it like to be a psychiatrist in an integrated care setting?
Learn about different strategies for integrating care, discuss practical how-tos for integrating mental health and physical health care, and understand the impacts of integration on patients, psychiatrists, and other clinicians.
Stop the Disparity! Eliminating Seclusion and Restraint
Join APA on World Patient Safety Day for this webinar event that will cover mental health disparities related to the use of seclusion or restraint, evidence-based means of reducing or eliminating seclusion and restraint, and patient safety in psychiatry.
2024 APA State Advocacy Conference
September 21, 2024 - September 22, 2024Develop effective legislative strategies and tactics to engage legislators on the many challenges facing psychiatry and mental health at the state level.
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