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State Mental Health Services
POSITION STATEMENT
Approved by the Board of Trustees, December 2008
Approved by the Assembly, November 2008
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(This statement prepared by the Committee on Public Funding is a revision of an earlier statement prepared by the APA Council on Mental Health Services, approved by the Executive Committee, September 1970).
All state mental health authorities for mentally ill, addicted, and developmentally disabled individuals must be under the direction of a qualified psychiatrist or include a qualified psychiatrist at the senior management level.