Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Learn more about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options, and answers to your questions.
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Mitos y Realidades Sobre La Salud Mental
¿Cómo te sientes? Puede resultar extraño que te pongas a analizar tus emociones, especialmente si no estás acostumbrado a ello. ¿Puedes decir qué estás sintiendo: felicidad, estrés, aburrimiento o algo completamente distinto? Ya sea que te sientas feliz, estresado, aburrido o algo más, todas las emociones, positivas o negativas, son parte natural del ser humano.
Internet Gaming
Learn about internet gaming, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to common questions.
Eating Disorders
Learn about eating disorders, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to your questions.
Climate Change and Mental Health Connections
Learn about the connection between climate change and mental health
Integrated Behavioral Healthcare
Integrated behavioral health is an evolving way of organizing the care people receive when they go to a primary care clinic. When you are in an integrated behavioral health clinic, you should expect to address common medical problems and also talk about common psychiatric, behavioral, and social problems. When these areas of your health are understood and addressed together, you have a better chance of being healthy.
Allied Group Meetings
APA encourages affiliate organizations to host allied meetings and special events in conjunction with the meeting.
Psychiatry Ambassadors and Student Scholarships Program
The APA Foundation's new Psychiatry Ambassadors and Student Scholarships (PASS) Program provides funding opportunities for APA Resident-Fellow and Medical Student Members to attend the in-person or virtual 2025 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, May 17-21.
Social Determinants of Mental Health
Social determinants of mental health (SDoMH) refer to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, which significantly impact mental health outcomes.
Social Determinants of Mental Health Task Force
The 2021-22 APA Presidential Task Force on Social Determinants of Mental Health was established by the APA Board of Trustees in May 2021 to develop sustainable policies and programs to bring about change in the psychiatric health care of affected populations.
What is the DSM?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)* describes recognized mental disorders. It specifies symptoms and other criteria for clinicians to evaluate in order to decide on a diagnosis and organizes these diagnoses together into a classification system.
Advocacy Update: January/February 2025
Learn more about January/February 2025 Advocacy Update at psychiatry.org