Help for Serious Mental Illness SAMSHA & APA have a co-sponsored website, https://consult.smiadviser.org/ and offer consultative services for professionals to help with challenging patients with severe mental illness (SMI). This is a great resource for all professionals. They even have resources for patients and families on this website: https://smiadviser.org/ Share this post :
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Open Meeting for all Tennessee Psychiatrists The Executive Team for the Tennessee Psychiatric Association is hosting an OPEN Zoom Meeting on Thursday, September 5th, from 530 – 630 PM. This short meeting will allow any psychiatrist to meet the Tennessee Psychiatric Association Executive Team and learn about the Society’s scheduled agenda over the next year
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The Southern Psychiatric Association and the Tennessee Psychiatric Association are co-hosting a meeting in Chattanooga, TN from September 11th to 14th, 2025 called Healthy Minds throughout the Life Span. The AGENDA and registration can be found here: https://www.sopsych.org/fall-2024-meeting We hope you will join us for this informative meeting. Share this post:
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Reposted from APA Psych News Alert on 9/9/2024 Reposted from the American Psychiatric Association. “Today, the Biden-Harris administration issued final rules that strengthen the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) with the goal of improving people’s access to quality mental health and substance use disorder care. Issued by the U.S. Departments of Labor,
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Dr. Valerie Arnold (MEMPHIS), and Dr. Michelle Cochran (NASHVILLE) represented Tennessee Psychiatric Association during the American Psychiatric Association Assembly meeting on November 1-3, 2024 in Chantilly, VA. Two Action papers written by Dr. Cochran and other psychiatrists in Area 5 (the APA division which includes Tennessee) were passed and will lead to action by the
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The Day After Half of the population’s favored candidate didn’t win. Today and for the next several months, half of our country is going to be reeling from the election results and the potential aftermath of the election may promote feelings of fear, confusion, disappointment, grief, helplessness, anxiety, anger, guilt and even diminished confidence in
FDA reports on Clozapine REMS An FDA (Food and Drug Administration) committee voted yesterday against Clozapine Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) monitoring program after hearing from physicians and other clinicians, patients, and caregivers who said access to this effective schizophrenia medication was full of unnecessary steps. “The REMS program, while well-intentioned and -designed, does
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We received a post that we thought warranted reposting which was called “Joint Statement on Federal Concerns About Psychotropic Medication Safety.” We think it is very relevant given that in TN, some legislators are trying to advance a Bill that would allow Psychologists to prescribe medications. Per the posting by the American Psychiatric Association
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Safe Prescribing in Tennessee Tennessee Psychiatric Association NEEDS YOUR HELP to protect our medical profession and voice your opinion to OPPOSE the psychologist’s prescribing bill, HB 996 / SB 911 (sponsored by Rep. B Martin & Sen. F. Haile) This bill is scheduled to be heard by HOUSE and SENATE Health Subcommittees (Date: 3/26 at NOON) Members
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A Better Solution to our mental health problems TN legislators are proposing to take non-medically trained individuals and turn them into prescribers. The solution to our problems is NOT poorly trained prescribers. Psychologists prescribing has not changed access nor suicide rates in any of the seven states where it is allowed. Some states even have
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