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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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2012
Assessing the risk of violence
Banning of pharmacy benefit management policies that require the provision of dangerous quantities of medications
Firearms Access: Inquiries in Clinical Settings
HIV-infected psychiatrists
Occupational HIV exposure: Protocols and protections
Rights of the child, Endorsement of U.S. ratification of the Convention on the
Segregation of Prisoners with Mental Illness
Substance use disorders
Support for Peer Support Services
Transgender and gender variant individuals, Access to care for
Transgender and gender variant individuals, Discrimination against
2011
Bullying-related morbidity and mortality, Joint AACAP/APA statement
Guns on college and university campuses, Proposed legislation
Homosexuality
Juveniles serving lengthy mandatory terms of imprisonment, Review of sentences
Mental health, children and disasters, Joint APA/AACAP statement on
Physician wellness
Utilization review, Remuneration for psychiatrists’ time performing
2010
Confidentiality of computerized records
Conflicts of interest principles and guidelines: With special interest for clinical practice and research
Direct to consumer advertising, Adoption of AMA statement on
High volume psychiatric practice and quality of patient care
Infectious disease epidemics including
No “Dangerous Patient” Exception to Federal Psychotherapist-Patient Testimonial Privilege
Posttraumatic stress disorder & traumatic brain injury
Psychiatry and primary care integration across the lifespan
2009
Abortion and women's reproductive rights
Access to comprehensive psychiatric assessment and integrated treatment
Adolescent substance abuse
Atypical antipsychotic agents
Discriminatory disability insurance coverage
Employment-related psychiatric examinations
HIV and adolescents
HIV and inpatient psychiatric services
HIV and outpatient psychiatric services
HIV antibody testing
HIV/AIDS and confidentiality, disclosure and protection of others
Interference with scientific research and medical care
Marijuana as medicine
Medication substitution
Provision of psychotherapy for psychiatric residents
Psychiatrists practicing in managed care: Rights and regulations
Psychotherapy by psychiatrists
Regarding hypnosis
Tobacco dependence
Use of animals in research
U.S. military policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Xenophobia, immigration and mental health
2008
Capital Punishment, Adoption of AMA statement on
Principles for health care reform for psychiatry
State mental health services
HIV and crystal methamphetamine
HIV infection and people over 50
2007
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Federal exemption from the IMD exclusion
Insanity defense
Patient access to treatments prescribed by their physicians
Pharmacy benefit management
Psychiatric disability evaluations by psychiatrists
Release of patients’ records to state medical boards
Treatment of substance use disorders in the criminal justice system
Use of jails to hold persons with criminal charges who are awaiting civil psychiatric hospital beds
2006
Psychiatric participation in interrogation of detainees
Resolution against racism and racial discrimination and their adverse impacts on mental health
2005
Adjudication of youths as adults in the criminal justice system
College and university mental health
Death sentences for persons with dementia or traumatic brain injury
Mentally ill prisoners and death row
Publication of findings from clinical trials
Same-sex civil marriage, Support of legal recognition of
Recovery, Use of the concept of
2004
Diminished responsibility in capital sentencing
HIV infection and pregnant women
Mental health, substance abuse and aging: Three resolutions
Psychiatric implications of HIV/HCV coinfection
Substance use disorders and other mental health comorbid with HIV, Recognition and management of
Same sex unions
Universal access to health care
2003
Concensus statement on quality of care in nursing homes, Endorsement
HIV antibody testing
HIV-related neuropsychiatric findings and associated impairments, Recognition and management of
Needle exchange programs
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) research
2002
Access to comprehensive psychiatric assessment and integrated treatment
Adoption and co-parenting of children by same-sex couples
Carve-outs and discrimination
Declaration of professional responsibility: Medicine's social contract with humanity
Inclusion of substance-related disorders as psychiatric disorders in any program designed to assure access and quality of care for persons with mental health
Medical professionalism, Charter on
Minimum necessary guidelines for third-party payers for psychiatric treatment
Pharmacy benefit management/Pharmacy benefit managers (PBM)
Reactive attachment disorder
2001
Care of pregnant and newly delivered women addicts
Core principles for end-of-life care
Discrimination against International Medical Graduates
Doctors against handgun injury (revised)
Domestic violence
Juvenile death sentences
Precepts of paliative care
Prevention of violence
2000
Moratorium on capital punishment in the United States
Medical necessity definition
Therapies focused on memories of childhood physical and sexual abuse
Preventing violence in America: A commitment from health professionals
Sexual orientation, Therapies focused on attempts to change (reparative or conversion therapies)
Violence in America can and must be prevented: A call for action from medicine, nursing, and public health
1999
Diversity
Psychotherapy and managed care
1998
Abuse and misuse of psychiatry, Identification of
Sexual harassment litigation, Misuse of psychiatric examinations and disclosure of psychiatric records in
Sexual orientation, Psychiatric treatment and
1997
Codification of medical evaluation and management services in psychotherapy
Consistent treatment of all applicants for state medical Llicensure
Discrimination against person with previous psychiatric treatment
Ensuring access to an appropriate utilization of psychiatric services for the elderly
Newborn infant adoptions
Relationship between treatment and self help
Religious persecution and genocide
Vision, mission, values and goals of the Association
1996
Bill of rights: principles for the provision of mental health and substance abuse treatment services
Legal proceedings and access to psychiatric care for juvenile offenders
1995
Any willing physician statement
Ethical use of telemedicine
Guidelines for handling the transfer of provider networks
Medical psychotherapy
Patient-physician covenant
Substance related disorders
Training needs in addiction psychiatry
1994
Abuse and misuse of psychiatry
Elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation
Psychiatrists from underrepresented groups in leadership roles
Resolution opposing any restriction on the number of IMG's entering graduate medical training
Use of psychiatric institutions for the commitment of political dissenters
1993
Domestic violence against women
Driving ability, Role of psychiatrists in assessing
Homicide prevention and gun control
Human rights abuses, Denial of
Resolution condemning the role of Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic in human rights abuses in the former Yugoslavia
TV violence
1992
Bias-related incidents
HIV and discrimination
Human rights
Sexual harassment
1991
Child abuse and neglect by adults
Day care for preschool children
Homosexuality and the Immigration and Naturalization Service
Peer review of expert testimony
Right to privacy (Committee on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues)
1990
Homosexuality and the armed services
School-based health clinics
Use of stigma as a political tactic
1989
Corporal punishment in schools
Psychiatric hospitalization of children and adolescents
1988
Psychiatric services in jails and prisons
Statement on discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation
1985
Joint resolution against torture
1984
Employment-related psychiatric examinations
Homosexual issues concerning the military
1980
Confidentiality of medical records: physician right to privacy concerning his/her own health records
Separation of children and adolescents from adult patients in state mental hospitals
Substance abuse
Use of addictive medications with terminally ill patients
1978
Active Treatment
Chronic mental patient, A call to action for the
1977
Abortion
Affirmative action
Discrimination against persons with previous psychiatric treatment
1975
Desegregation of hospitals for the mentally ill and retarded
Minority psychiatrists, training of
1974
Long-term mental hospital facilities, the need to maintain
1973
Antisubstitution laws and regulations
Family planning
Homosexuality and civil rights
1971
Political dissenters, Use of psychiatric institutions for the commitment of
1970
Hospital privileges for psychologists
1969
Transcultural psychiatry, Delineation of as a specialized field of study
1968
Drugs, generic versus proprietary