This month’s free CME course for members is titled “Lithium and Bipolar Disorder in Children.” While lithium continues is highly recommended for the treatment of bipolar disorder, its usage seems less frequent than expected. This presentation reviews the advantages and disadvantages of lithium for children with bipolar disorder, its major side effects, and how they can be optimally managed.
A guidebook on how to best integrate complementary and alternative treatments into psychiatry has been awarded a Gold Medal Nautilus Book Award in the Psychology category for 2017. The prestigious award was bestowed upon Complementary and Integrative Treatments in Psychiatric Practice, edited by Patricia Gerbarg, M.D., Philip Muskin, M.D., and Richard Brown, M.D. APA members may purchase the book at a discount.
The national collaboration between the APA Foundation, Council of State Governments Justice Center, and National Association of Counties have launched their third year of the Stepping Up Initiative focused on collecting baseline data. This Phase 3 was kicked off Wednesday with a National Day of Action to bring attention to the issue of the overincarceration of individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). To learn more about Phase 3, check out this op-ed featuring APA President Altha Stewart, M.D., and learn how you can join the Stepping Up Initiative. Questions? Contact Program Director Christopher Seeley.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention would like to shed light on the benefits of quitting tobacco use with a Twitter Town Hall. Participate on Twitter with your APA colleagues and members of the public on Thursday, May 31, at 1 p.m. ET to mark WHO’s “No Tobacco Day.” This year’s theme is "Tobacco and Heart Disease." Join the conversation using the hashtag #WNTD and follow the VA at @DeptVetAffairs and APA at @APAPsychiatric.
The APA Foundation is accepting applications for its Helping Hands Grant Program. This program provides grants of up to $5,000 to medical schools for mental health and substance use disorder projects, particularly in underserved minority communities. These projects are developed and managed by medical students, in partnership with community agencies or in conjunction with ongoing medical school outreach activities. The deadline for applications is Thursday, June 7.
The deadline for nominations for the 2019 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award is Friday, June 1. This award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the literature of forensic psychiatry in the form of a book, monograph, paper, or other work published or presented at a professional meeting between May 1 and April 30 of the award year cycle.
Residents and fellows are invited to submit a scientific paper on tardive dyskinesia to the 2018 Promising Scholars Award Program by July 1. Submissions may be literature reviews, case reports, or studies that are original and newly developed or recently published. Experts will evaluate the submissions on the basis of their relevance to tardive dyskinesia, originality, scientific rigor, clinical significance, and more. The first- and second-place winners will be awarded $2,500 and $1,500, respectively, at the 2018 IPS: The Mental Health Services Conference in Chicago in October.
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