The site brings together a number of resources from APA and other authoritative sources, including the CDC, CMS, FDA, and SAMHSA. The site is updated daily.
This archived presentation covers topics including assessing which telemental health platform to use, licensure, issues around consent, online prescribing, billing and payments, and special situations.
Mental health professionals can submit questions about COVID-19 and bipolar disorder, major depression, and schizophrenia and receive evidence-based guidance from SMI Adviser’s team of national experts within a day. Ask about medications, resources for families, telehealth options, and much more. This is a completely confidential and free service.
As an APA member, you have access to APA's Practice Management HelpLine to assist you with your practice management needs. Help is available on how to manage the day-to-day operations of your practice in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, including telehealth, coding, documentation, reimbursement, contracting with managed care companies, Medicare, Medicaid, and more.
In lieu of APA’s Annual Meeting, APA is planning two virtual programs: the “APA Highlights” event on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26, and APA On Demand 2020. The programs will feature headline speakers, subject experts, and thought leaders, some of whom were slated to appear at APA’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. APA on Demand offers 300+ hours of education. More details will be sent to members as they become available.
APA President Bruce Schwartz, M.D., discusses issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and government response but points out that ongoing mental health crises—such as the failure to address the growing number of suicides and provide care to people with serious mental illness—need a high-level, comprehensive response as well.
As part of our work to promote evidence-based care, SMI Adviser established the Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) Center of Excellence that provides direct access to free resources, education, consultation, tools, and more on the use of LAIs. Let SMI Adviser help you increase and improve the use of LAIs in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The APA Ethics Committee will produce an online version of its “Ethics Dilemmas in Psychiatric Practice” session that would have been held at APA’s 2020 Annual Meeting. During the session, the Ethics Committee will answer real questions from members on ethics dilemmas they have encountered, participated in, or read about. Possible topics might include boundary issues, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, child and adolescent problems, dual agency conflicts, acceptance of gifts, emergency situations, trainee issues, impaired colleagues, and forensic matters. (Questions may not derive from any pending ethics complaint.) Please send your questions as soon as possible and no later than Friday, April 3 to apaethics@psych.org.
Don’t forget to renew your APA membership by Tuesday, March 31, so you can continue to access the most up-to-date online learning courses, subscriptions to the American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric News, and access to toolkits such as the Telepsychiatry Toolkit. Please log on to my.psychiatry.org or contact membership@psychiatry.org to receive a personalized payment link.
The Caucus of Asian-American Psychiatrists is holding an election for three leadership positions: president, Assembly representative, and Assembly deputy representative. To be eligible to vote in the election, APA members must join the caucus by Wednesday, April 1.
APA offers a number of free and premium training approaches to provide medication-assisted treatment. View book-based, online, and in-person eight-hour training activities here. You can also find free CME-accredited webinars on medication-assisted treatment offered through APA, AAAP, and PCSS here.
This award recognizes a person who has made outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry or to the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence. It is a joint award of APA and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
New ‘From Pages to Practice’ podcast features a discussion with Mark Munetz, M.D., and Elizabeth Ford, M.D., about their work in providing services to individuals who have criminal justice contact and serious mental illness.
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