Position Statements

              "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             

Retired position statements (members only)


2007

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) (HTML)
Insanity defense (HTML)
Patient access to treatments prescribed by their physicians (HTML)
Pharmacy benefit management (HTML)
Psychiatric disability evaluations by psychiatrists (HTML)
Release of patients’ records to State Medical Boards (HTML)
Treatment of substance use disorders in the criminal justice system (HTML)
Use of jails to hold perspons with criminal charges who are awaiting civil psychiatric hopsital beds (HTML)
2006 Psychiatric participation in interrogation of detainees (PDF)
Resolution against racism and racial discrimination and their adverse impacts on mental health (
PDF)
2005 Adjudication of youths as adults in the criminal justic system (PDF)
College and university mental health (
PDF)
Death sentences for persons with dementia or traumatic brain injury (
PDF)
Mentally ill prisoners and death row (
PDF)
Publication of findings from clinical trials (
PDF)
Support of legal recognition of same-sex civil marriage (
PDF)
Use of the concept of recovery (
PDF)
2004 Diminished responsibility in capital sentencing (PDF)
HIV and adolescents (
PDF)
HIV and inpatient psychiatric services (
PDF)
HIV and outpatient psychiatric services (
PDF)
HIV antibody testing (
PDF)
HIV infected psychiatrists (
PDF)
HIV infected pregnant women (
PDF)
Mental health, substance abuse and aging: Three resolutions (
PDF)
Occupational HIV exposure: Protocols and protections (
PDF)
Psychiatric implications of HIV/HCV coinfection (
PDF)
Recognition and management of substance use disorders and other mental illnesses comorbid with HIV (
PDF)
Same sex unions (
PDF)
Universal access to health care (
PDF)
2003 Concensus statement on quality of care in nursing homes, Endorsement (PDF)
HIV and adolescents (
PDF)
HIV antibody testing (
PDF)
HIV infection (
PDF)
HIV infection and pregnant women (
PDF)
HIV/AIDS, Confidentiality, disclosure, and protection of others (
PDF)
Needle exchange programs (
PDF)
Recognition and management of HIV-related neuropsychiatric findings and associated impairments (
PDF)
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) research (
PDF)
2002 Access to comprehensive psychiatric assessment and integrated treatment (PDF)
Adoption and Co-parenting of Children by Same-sex Couples (
PDF)
Carve-outs and discrimination (
PDF)
Charter on medical professionalism (forthcoming)
Declaration of professional responsibility: Medicine's social contract with humanity (
PDF)
Inclusion of substance-related disorders as psychiatric disorders in any program designed to assure access and quality of care for persons with mental illness (PDF)
Minimum necessary guidelines for third-party payers for psychiatric treatment (
PDF)
Pharmacy benefit management/Pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) (
PDF)
Reactive attachment disorder (
PDF)
2001 Assessing the risk for violence (PDF)
Care of pregnant and newly delivered women addicts (
PDF)
Core prinicples for end-of-life care (
PDF)
Discrimination against International Medical Graduates (
PDF)
Doctors against handgun injury (revised) (PDF)
Domestic violence (
PDF)
Juvenile death sentences (
PDF)
Precepts of paliative care (PDF)
Prevention of violence (
PDF)
2000 Atypical antipsychotic agents (PDF)
Capital punishment in the United States, Moratorium on (
PDF)
Medical Necessity Definition (
PDF)
Memories of childhood physical and sexual abuse, Therapies focused on (
PDF)
Preventing violence in America: A commitment from health professionals (
PDF)
Same sex unions (
PDF)
Sexual orientation, Therapies focused on attempts to change (reparative or conversion therapies) (
PDF)
Violence in America can and must be prevented: A call for action from medicine, nursing, and public health (
PDF)
1999 Attending psychiatrists in charge of hospitalized psychiatric patients (PDF)
Discriminatory employer-sponsored disability insurance (
PDF)
Diversity (
PDF)
Psychotherapy and managed care (
PDF)
1998 Abuse and misuse of psychiatry, Identification of (PDF)
Exchange of medical information between physicians and patients (
PDF)
Provision of Psychotherapy for Psychiatric Residents, Other House Staff and Medical Students (PDF)
Sexual harassment litigation, Misuse of psychiatric examinations and disclosure of psychiatric records in (
PDF)
Sexual orientation, Psychiatric treatment and (
PDF)
1997 Access, Definition of (PDF)
Bill of rights: principles for the provision of mental health and substance abuse treatment services (
PDF)
Codification of medical evaluation and management services in psychotherapy (
PDF)
Confidentiality of computerized records (
PDF)
Consistent treatment of all applicants for State Medical Licensure (
PDF)
Discrimination against person with previous psychiatric treatment (
PDF)
Ensuring access to an appropriate utilization of psychiatric services for the elderly (
PDF)
National Substance Abuse Coalition, Mission statement of the (PDF)
Physician leadership on national drug policy (
PDF)
Psychiatric pharmaceutical carve-outs (
PDF)
Relationship between treatment and self help (
PDF)
Religious persecution and genocide (
PDF)
Restrictive formularies and therapeutic drug substitutions (
PDF)
Vision, Mission, Values and Goals of the Association (
PDF)
1996 Legal proceedings and access to psychiatric care for juvenile offenders (PDF)
Newborn infant adoptions (
PDF)
1995 Any willing physician statement (PDF)
Ethical use of telemedicine (
PDF)
Guidelines for handling the transfer of provider networks (
PDF)
Interference with scientific research and medical care (
PDF)
Medical psychotherapy (
PDF)
Patient-Physician Covenant (
PDF)
Preferred-provider-panel physicians' bill of rights (
PDF)
Statement on medication substitution (
PDF)
Substance related disorders (
PDF)
Training needs in addiction psychiatry (
PDF)
Use of apolipoprotein E testing for Alzheimer Disease (
PDF)
1994 Abuse and misuse of psychiatry (PDF)
Elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (
PDF)
Nicotine dependence (
PDF)
Psychiatrists from underrepresented groups in leadership roles (
PDF)
Resolution opposing any restriction on the number of IMG's entering graduate medical training (
PDF)
Use of psychiatric institutions for the commitment of political dissenters (
PDF)
1993 Continuity of care in the psychiatrist-patient relationship (PDF)
Domestic violence against women (
PDF)
Driving ability, Role of psychiatrists in assessing (
PDF)
Ensuring health care coverage for indigent populations during health care reform (
PDF)
Homicide prevention and gun control (
PDF)
Human rights abuses, Denial of (
PDF)
Memories of sexual abuse (
PDF)
Methadone maintenance treatment (
PDF)
Need for improved training for treatment of patients with combined substance use and other psychiatric disorders (
PDF)
Resolution condemning the role of Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic in human rights abuses in the former Yugoslavia (
PDF)
Severe and persistent mental illness (
PDF)
TV violence (
PDF)
1992 AIDS policy: Confidentiality, disclosure, and protection of others (PDF)
AIDS policy: HIV and discrimination (
PDF)
AIDS policy: HIV infection R
(PDF)
Bias-related incidents (
PDF)
Homosexuality (
PDF)
Human rights (
PDF)
Sexual harassment (
PDF)
1991 Child abuse and neglect by adults (PDF)
Day care for preschool children (
PDF)
Federal role in children's mental health services (
PDF)
HIV and youth (
PDF)
HIV infection and impairment of personal, social, or occupational functioning (
PDF)
Homosexuality and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (
PDF)
Medical use of psychotherapeutic medications in the nursing home (
PDF)
Peer review of expert testimony (
PDF)
Reproductive rights, APA actions on (
PDF)
Right to privacy (Committee on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues) (
PDF)
1990 Drugs of abuse in school-age children (PDF)
Homosexuality and the armed services (
PDF)
Residency fellowship programs (
PDF)
School-based health clinics (
PDF)
Use of stigma as a political tactic (
PDF)
1989 Animals, use of in research (PDF)
Corporal punishment in schools (
PDF)
Psychiatric hospitalization of children and adolescents (PDF)
1988 Psychiatric services in jails and prisons (PDF)
Statement on discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation (
PDF)
1986 Foster parents, Discrimination in selection of (PDF)
Psychoactive substance use and dependence : update on marijuana and cocaine (PDF)
South Africa (
PDF)
1985 Joint resolution against torture (PDF)
Patient-Physician Covenant (
PDF)
1984 Employment-related psychiatric examinations (PDF)
Homosexual issues concerning the military (
PDF)
1980 Capital punishment, Medical participation in (PDF)
Confidentiality of medical records: physician right to privacy concerning his/her own health records (
PDF)
Separation of children and adolescents from adult patients in state mental hospitals (
PDF)
Substance abuse (
PDF)
Teenage parents and their children (
PDF)
Use of addictive medications with terminally ill patients (
PDF)
1978 Active treatment (PDF)
Chronic mental patient, A call to action for the (
PDF)
1977 Abortion (PDF)
Affirmative action (
PDF)
Discrimination against persons with previous psychiatric treatment (
PDF)
Recertification (PDF)
1976 Rehabilitation (PDF)
Right to adequate care and treatment for the mentally ill and mentally retarded (
PDF)
Support for psychiatric research (
PDF)
1975 Administration of psychiatric facilities (PDF)
Desegregation of hospitals for the mentally ill and retarded (
PDF)
Minority psychiatrists, training of (PDF)
Quality of life (PDF)
1974 Confidentiality, the role of in volunteer military drug abuse treatment programs (PDF)
Long-term mental hospital facilities, the need to maintain (PDF)
Racism and racial discrimination, United Nations draft program to combat (PDF)
1973 Antisubstitution laws and regulations (PDF)
Correctional institutions, Medical and psychiatric care in (PDF)
Family planning (
PDF)
Homosexuality and civil rights (
PDF)
1972 College mental health (PDF)
Confidentiality of medical research records (PDF)
1971 Financing of psychiatric care (PDF)
Political dissenters, Use of psychiatric institutions for the commitment of (PDF)
Psychiatric nursing education (
PDF)
1970 Hospital privileges for psychologists (PDF)
State mental health services (
PDF)
1969 Crisis in child mental health: Challenge for the 1970'S (PDF)
Transcultural psychiatry, Delineation of as a specialized field of study (PDF)
Violence, Alternatives to (
PDF)
1968 Drugs, generic versus proprietary (PDF)
Nursing education (PDF)
1967 Adequacy of treatment (PDF)
Mental health programs, Importance of sustained or increased support of (
PDF)
1966 Adolescence, Psychiatry of (PDF)
1963 Fees (PDF)
1961 Hypnosis (PDF)
Licensure of mentally ill or emotionally disturbed physicians (
PDF)
1958 Psychology (PDF)
1955 Psychiatric aides (PDF)