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Provision of Psychotherapy for Psychiatric Residents
POSITION STATEMENT
Approved by the Board of Trustees, May 2009
Approved by the Assembly, Septemer 2009
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"Policy documents are approved by the APA Assembly and Board of Trustees… These are …position statements that define APA official policy on specific subjects…" -- APA Operations Manual. |
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The American Psychiatric Association affirms that training programs have a responsibility to advocate to ensure psychiatric residents have access, within the limits of what is available in the community, to affordable, private and confidential psychiatric services, including individual psychotherapy, on a par with all other medical services. If provided within the resident’s training program, such therapy should not be carried out by a therapist with a supervisory or evaluative role. Without reducing training or clinical care requirements, residents should have protected time to pursue psychotherapy, while facing no stigmatizing or discriminatory consequences.