Mentorship Is Leadership in Action: Introducing the APA Mentorship Platform

The APA is launching a new Mentorship Platform designed to bring together medical students, resident-fellows, early career psychiatrists, and experienced professionals in one centralized, intelligent system built for meaningful connection.

Defining Mental Well-Being: An Expert Consensus

• New research, Patients and Families, Public awareness

“Mental well-being,” “flourishing,” “thriving,” “positive mental health”: these terms are widely used in research, health care, workplaces, schools and public policy. But they are not consistently understood or defined. A new study aims to help define the term “positive mental health.” Having a more consistent definition would allow for more comparable research and policies and practices better able to support and facilitate positive mental health.

Mindfulness as a Performance Tool: The Science of Attention, Control, and Cognitive Excellence

• By Brook Choulet, M.D.
• Healthy living for mental well-being, Patients and Families, Public awareness

Today, people are expected to perform at a high level in every area of life—as parents, physicians, friends, family, athletes, etc. There often isn’t protected time in our calendars for rest and recovery due to the constant expectations placed on individuals, which heightens stress and pressure for many. The elite performers in today’s world have recognized a tool that allows them to engage in intentional recovery while also achieving higher performance in life: mindfulness.

Gaming and Mental Health: Understanding Internet Gaming Disorder

Gaming is a mainstream activity, and most children participate at some level. Moderate participation in gaming is not harmful and may even provide social connection and mental well-being benefits, according to James Sherer, M.D., and colleagues in a new book from APA Publishing. Significant problems with gaming, or gaming addiction, only affect players

Bridging the Frameworks: How Commercial Determinants Shape the Social Determinants of Mental Health

• Diverse populations, Patients and Families

Mental health equity has often been defined through the lens of the social determinants of health (SDOH), which are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, such as housing, food security, education, social support and health care access . Emerging research on the commercial determinants of health has explored how commercial forces, like private corporations, can affect health, configure risk, and normalize inequity . The commercial determinants of health amplify social determinants, as commercial actors seek to influence political, marketing, supply chain, waste, labor, employment, and scientific sectors2.