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    Personality Disorders

    Learn about Personality Disorders, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options, and answers to your questions.

    Tips for Family Mental Well-being During the Pandemic: Young Children to Elderly Parents

    • Patients and Families

    Families are continuing to cope with challenges during the pandemic and many are juggling multiple roles, including working from home and caring for children and elderly parents. The American Psychiatric Association Foundation recently hosted a virtual town hall addressing Mentally Healthy Families in Times of a Pandemic with geriatric psychiatrist Uyen-Khanh Quang-Dang, M.D., M.S., Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, and psychiatrist Lisa Harding, M.D., clinical instructor of psychiatry at Yale

    The Menstrual Cycle and Mental Health

    • Patients and Families, Suicide and self-harm, Women

    Premenstrual exacerbation (PME) of psychiatric symptoms (worsening of mental health conditions just prior to a woman’s period), is not a new term or idea. Yet PME of psychiatric symptoms such as depression, mania, and psychosis, to name a few, has been understudied compared to other illnesses related to the menstrual cycle. The work that has been done surrounding this idea has mostly asked women to report past experience of worsening psychiatric symptoms around their menstrual cycle. This is pro

    John Fryer Award

    The John Fryer Award honors an individual whose work has contributed to the improvement of mental health of sexual minority communities.

    Preventing Depression with an Online Self-help Program

    • Depression, Patients and Families

    A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry in May finds that an online guided self-help program significantly reduced the risk of depression in a group of people at high risk for the mental disorder.

    New National Poll Finds Americans Show Strong Support for Mental Health Coverage

    Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, overwhelmingly feel that insurance should cover mental health. Seventy-seven percent of all Americans said private health insurance offered through an employer or union should cover mental health, including 76 percent of Democrats and 81 percent of Republicans. This is according to a new national poll released today by the American Psychiatric Association.

    Carol Davis Ethics Award

    The Carol Davis Ethics Award promotes the educational role of the ethics process and is presented to an APA member who has authored an outstanding publication on ethics.

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