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Digital Mental Health
While there are numerous definitions of mHealth, here we focus on asynchronous mobile technologies, including smartphone apps, text messaging, email, and online forums. The goals of mHealth are to improve health outcomes through convenient, patient-driven access to mental health support and self-management tools.
Community Mental Health
Learn about child and adolescent telepsychiatry@s role in community mental health in APA@s Telepsychiatry Toolkit.
Achieve Mental Health Equity Update: Spring 2024
In this quarterly issue of our Diversity and Health Equity Newsletter, we bring you exciting updates, and engaging story pieces about you, our members.
APA Announces New Events for Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
APA celebrates each July with a series of community-wide events focused on mental health equity for young people of color. Check out what's in store for this year!
Media Advisory: The American Psychiatric Association to Host Inaugural MOORE Equity in Mental Health 5K
Learn more about Media Advisory: The American Psychiatric Association to Host Inaugural MOORE Equity in Mental Health 5K at psychiatry.org
APA Journals Ranked Highly on Latest Scientific Literature “Impact Factor”
The American Psychiatric Association (APA)’s journals were well-represented in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics © 2023), in which journals are assigned “Impact Factors.” Impact Factor is a bibliometric calculation that describes the level of influence a journal’s published output has on the scientific literature by measuring how many times the work it publishes is cited by others.
Stigma, Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness
Learn about Stigma, Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness
Purpose in Life Can Lead to Less Stress, Better Mental Well-being
What is purpose in life? It means having a central, organizing life aim, an overall sense of direction in one's life, and a belief that one’s life activities are valuable and important — making a positive mark on the world. Research indicates that having a purpose in life is good for mental health. For example, having greater purpose in life was significantly associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety.
Annual Mental Health Poll Reveals Americans Anxious About Current Events; 40% of Employed Worried About Job Security
Ahead of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, the organization released poll data today revealing that two-thirds of Americans are anxious about current events happening around the world. The poll also reports on attitudes towards mental health and work-related sources of anxiety.