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APA Welcomes National Focus on Mental Health, Urges Evidence-Based Approach and Continued Focus on Access to Care
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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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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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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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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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The Tennessee Psychiatric Association participated in the American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) event on January 28, 2024 held at the Belmont University Fisher Center. The goal was to increase awareness and to provide resources to athletes, musicians, and students at the Middle Tennessee Universities (Belmont, Vanderbilt, Lipscomb, Tennessee State University, Trevecca, and others. APA Foundation
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