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Psychiatrists in Supervisory Role
This document gives a general overview of considerations psychiatrists may apply to their supervision of advanced practice providers. However, this is not a definitive or comprehensive guide. Psychiatrists should work with their facility, compliance teams, and malpractice insurance carriers to clarify specific issues that need to be addressed in their practice.
Person-Centered Language in Jails and Prisons
This APA Resource Document introduces the concept of person-centered language to be used in reference to jails and prisons, starting with the history of related language, development of changes, and perspective of incarcerated individuals, and concluding with recommendations on how to implement language changes when referring to these populations and settings.
Lifestyle Psychiatry
In 2024, the Presidential Workgroup on Lifestyle Psychiatry was charged with building psychiatry-focused, evidence-based educational content, engaging members, and incorporating lifestyle psychiatry into ongoing community service projects. This report consists of seven sections, an overview followed by the six pillars of lifestyle psychiatry that summarize the theory and clinical applications.
Addressing Gambling Disorder in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
This resource document is intended to support psychiatrists, trainees, and other mental healthcare workers. This document is not intended to be comprehensive or completely systematic in nature, nor is it a practice guideline.
Health Disparities in Perinatal Mental Health
APA’s Health Disparities in Perinatal Mental Health Resource Document — developed by the APA’s Health Disparities in Perinatal Mental Health Work Group — is an evolving resource for members who want to learn more about health disparities in women’s perinatal mental health.
College Telehealth Best Practices
This resource document is intended to support psychiatrists, trainees, and other mental healthcare workers to provide telehealth to the college-aged population. This document is not intended to be comprehensive or completely systematic in nature, nor is it a practice guideline.
Catatonia
This resource document is intended to support psychiatrists, trainees, and other mental healthcare workers and to provide a framework for assessing the adequacy of existing violence prevention policies and a list of resources for the development of state-of-the- art policy approaches.
Prevention of Patient Assaults on Mental Healthcare Employees in Psychiatric Healthcare Settings
This resource document is intended to support psychiatrists, trainees, and other mental healthcare workers and to provide a framework for assessing the adequacy of existing violence prevention policies and a list of resources for the development of state-of-the-art policy approaches.
Preparing in Advance: What Every Psychiatrist and Their Family Should Know About Planning for Unexpected Practice Closures
This guide, initially developed in 2006 by the APA’s Council on Psychiatry and Law and updated for contemporary psychiatric practice by the APA Ethics Committee in 2025, offers APA members, their families, and colleagues a resource to help navigate the logistical, ethical, and financial complexities of closing a practice on short notice.
Harm Reduction
Harm reduction is an evidence-based, standard-of-care approach that aims to reduce the harm that patients experience while using substances. It recognizes that the use of substances is an inherent component of substance use disorder and that some ways of using illicit substances are less harmful to patient medical, social, and psychological health than others.
Approaches to Address Patient Access to Important Personal Items While Psychiatrically Hospitalized
This resource document is a guide for psychiatrists to use to evaluate and manage patient access to personal items during inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Differences between types of psychiatric hospitals, including civil, forensic, child and adolescent, and long-term state hospitals will be reviewed.
The Role of Psychiatrists in the Post-Roe Era
This resource document will outline clinical considerations for psychiatrists in a post-Dobbs world and provide guidance in navigating a new and complex landscape related to abortion.