Policies and Clinical Resources

Clinical Practice Guidelines and other professional resources (linkS)

• APA Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Delirium 
• APA Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Eating Disorders 
• APA Practice Guideline  for the Treatment of Patients with HIV and AIDS 
• The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Practice Guidelines for Psychiatric Consultation in the General Medical Setting 

APA Policies and resource documents 

POSITION STATEMENTS (Links)

• Physician Wellness (see Resource Document)
• Infectious disease epidemics including H1N1
• Psychiatry and primary care integration across the lifespan 
• Abortion and women's reproductive rights (see Resource Document below) 
•  Interference with scientific research and medical care
• Death sentences for persons with dementia or traumatic brain injury
• HIV infection and pregnant women
•  Psychiatric implications of HIV/HCV coinfection
• Recognition and management of substance use disorders and other mental health comorbid with HIV
• Recognition and management of HIV-related neuropsychiatric findings and associated impairments

RESOURCE DOCUMENTS (Links coming soon)

• Physician Wellness
• Guidelines for Psychiatrists in Consultative, Supervisory or Collaborative Relationships with Nonphysician Clinicians
• Abortion and Women's Reproductive Health Care Rights
• The Internet in Clinical Psychiatry 
• Psychiatric Advance Directives 
• Psychiatrists' responses to requests for psychiatric information in federal personnel investigations 
• Guidelines for psychiatric “fitness for duty” evaluations of physicians
• Research subjects with cognitive impairment, Guidelines for assessing the decision-making capacities of potential
• Psychotherapy with medical evaluation and management
• AIDS policy: guidelines for inpatient psychiatric units
• Medical psychotherapy
• Occupational HIV exposure: protocols and protections
• AIDS policy: guidelines for inpatient psychiatric services
• AIDS policy: guidelines for outpatient psychiatric services
• Medication, Right to refuse
• AIDS policy: confidentiality and disclosure Confidentiality, Guidelines on