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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential world-wide. The association publishes various journals and pamphlets, as well as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. The DSM codifies psychiatric conditions and is used world-wide as a key guide to diagnosing disorders.

Preceded by Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with eating disorders / American Psychiatric Association. 3rd ed. 2006.

Provides an indispensable guide to antipsychotic and substance use disorder medications and includes approved indications, usual dosages, and maximum dosages. Derived from an appendix to The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology, Fifth Edition.

This new pocket guide, based on the 2015 edition of Practice Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults, focuses on the initial psychiatric evaluation, including additional domains of evaluation relevant to CPT documentation requirements.

The guideline offers clear, concise, and actionable recommendation statements to help clinicians to incorporate recommendations into clinical practice, with the goal of improving quality of care. Each recommendation is given a rating that reflects the level of confidence that potential benefits of an intervention outweigh potential harms.

The guideline focuses specifically on evidence-based pharmacological treatments for AUD in outpatient settings and includes additional information on assessment and treatment planning, which are an integral part of using pharmacotherapy to treat AUD.

The book provides treatment recommendations for bipolar patients, a review of evidence about bipolar disorder, and states research needs

This book covers the multiple personality disorder.

The book is a compendium of articles from Psychiatric Services on issues in community treatment of severe mental illness.

This task force report from the American Psychiatric Assocation covers clinician safety.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry.

This book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on law and psychiatry.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on tardive dyskinesia.

The book is a compendium of articles from Psychiatric Services and Hospital and Community Psychiatry on violent behavior and mental illness.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on the young adult chronic patient.

The rights of the mental disabled are highlighted in the book.

Psychiatrists are in a unique position to understand the personalities, needs, and motivations of cult leaders and followers. This report assumes that unique vantage point in its review of the cult phenomenon. This report presents statistics and colorful descriptions of American cults and their effect on those who embrace them.

This compelling monograph combines-for the first time-the reports from two American Psychiatric Association task forces on quality in psychiatric care, offering a clinical framework for quality measurement that provides sample indicators of quality for health plans, facilities, and systems of care.

As the first attempt to synthesize the movement toward widespread implementation of evidence-based mental health practices, this groundbreaking collection articulates the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine and shows how practices proven effective by clinical services research could improve the lives of many people.