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Submit Your Abstract for the 2025 Annual Meeting
The theme for the 2025 APA Annual Meeting 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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2024 APA State Advocacy Conference
On Sept. 21 and 22 join us in Washington D.C. to develop effective legislative strategies to engage legislators on the challenges facing psychiatry.
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Members Course of the Month
Through this course you will gain insights into engagement as a key principle in addressing and healing the mental health crisis among Gen Z teens.
Upcoming Events
Exploring the Impact of Weathering on Maternal Mental Health: Can Stress be Inherited?
Join us on Aug. 28 at noon to discuss the weathering phenomenon, used to interpret the differentials in the health outcomes of African Americans and Whites over time, and explore strategies to address it.
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.
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