In a historic first, APA Past President Theresa Miskimen Rivera addressed critical psychiatric workforce challenges—labor shortages, burnout, and barriers to culturally responsive care—at SUSP’s 2026 Triservice Conference and outlined APA’s initiatives to combat them. 🔗👇

As AI continues to rapidly transform health care, psychiatry faces unique questions regarding how this technology should be integrated into clinical practice. 🔗👇

Quality improvement doesn’t have to be treated as busy work for residents that’s quickly forgotten. In fact, it’s one of the few parts of training where we can help shape how the system works. https://ow.ly/s5hF50ZzX3z

Latest MedCheck: Compass Pathways is finalizing its NDA for COMP360 (psilocybin) for treatment-resistant depression. FDA also approves the third OTC naloxone nasal spray (Rextovy, 4 mg). More updates here: https://ow.ly/qc8Z50ZzWZG

🎙️ In this episode, Dr. Sulman Aziz Mirza speaks with geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Rajesh Tampi about managing the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Their conversation explores comprehensive assessment, caregiver burden, emerging treatments and more. https://ow.ly/YrEy50ZzWOc

Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) can promote lasting reductions in anxiety symptoms among early adolescents. https://alert.psychnews.org/online-cbt-for-youth-anxiety-shows-enduring-benefits

Online CBT for Youth Anxiety Shows Enduring Benefits

Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) can promote lasting reductions in anxiety symptoms among early adolescents.

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As changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders transition from vision to reality, the APA Foundation is looking back at the history of this resource, which is one of the most important and valuable documents in the history of global psychiatry. 🔗👇

State legislative activity focused on eating disorders has risen in recent years, with 600 unique bills and laws proposed or enacted between 2008 and 2024 across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. However, only a few bills became laws, and most policies introduced were symbolic. 🔗👇

Understanding how the broader array of mental illnesses are associated with poor kidney outcomes can help identify patients who could benefit from screening and closer follow-up. https://alert.psychnews.org/mental-illness-linked-to-poor-kidney-outcomes

Mental Illness Linked to Poor Kidney Outcomes

Understanding how the broader array of mental illness are associated with poor kidney outcomes can help identify patients who could benefit from screening and closer follow-up.

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We need to ground the discussion of AI in mental health not in our fears or hopes, but rather in real-world data tracking its actual use, efficacy, and safety. 🔗👇

Individuals with bipolar disorder who took lithium reported fewer thoughts and behaviors related to self-harm than bipolar patients not taking lithium. https://alert.psychnews.org/lithium-reduces-suicidal-ideation-behaviors-in-patients-with-bipolar-disorder

Rather than focusing solely on advancing clinical knowledge, CWMH initiatives increasingly seek to address the systems, policies, and workforce limitations that shape how care is delivered and accessed. 🔗👇

In 2024, one in eight youths between 12 and 21 used generative AI for mental health advice, and in a follow-up study, the same research team found that this number had risen to roughly one in five youth in 2025. JAMA Psychiatry 🔗👇

Physical violence toward inpatient health care workers accounts for a significant percentage of all nonfatal workplace violence. https://alert.psychnews.org/psychiatric-nurses-and-technicians-report-high-rates-of-exposure-to-trauma-involving-patients

Psychiatric Nurses and Technicians Report High Rates of Exposure to Trauma Involving Patients

Nurses and psychiatric technicians at a private psychiatric hospital reported significantly higher rates of exposure to trauma than those in roles requiring lower direct patient care.

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While Cobenfy has provided a breath of fresh air for schizophrenia research, it comes with its own set of challenges clinicians need to manage, according to experts who spoke at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology’s 2026 annual meeting. 🔗👇

If we don’t just react to the behavior but understand it‚ we can do more than simply keeping it from occurring. We can create opportunities to provide support to students before they reach a point of crisis. 🔗👇

The study findings demonstrate that administering psilocybin to patients with depression is feasible within real-world clinical settings. https://alert.psychnews.org/psilocybin-assisted-therapy-feasible-within-public-health-care-setting

Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Feasible Within Public Health Care Setting

The study findings demonstrate that administering psilocybin to patients with depression is feasible within real-world clinical settings.

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A resource document introducing a curriculum for teaching early-stage psychiatry trainees essential elements and principles of psychotherapy for use across clinical care settings and patient interactions has been approved by APA’s Joint Reference Committee. 🔗👇

For psychiatry residents interested in psychotherapy, the journey can feel overwhelming. With hundreds of named psychotherapies and competing philosophies about the “right” approach, how does a trainee even begin? 🔗👇

APA and four other psychiatric associations expressed serious concern over the planned removal of SAMHSA's online buprenorphine practitioner and pharmacy locator. https://ow.ly/QfNb50Zx6x9

I just read Dr. Salman Akram’s Letter to the Editor about subspecialty training for psychiatrists, and want to make your readers aware that fellowship training in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry (BNNP) is available for psychiatrists as well as neurologists. https://ow.ly/3X6Q50Zx5XM

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) sleep more than their peers on average but experience more sleep disturbances that are associated with behavioral difficulties, lower health-related quality of life, and greater maternal depression. https://ow.ly/jyrU50ZxHUP

For Children With Autism, Bad Sleep Is Associated With Poorer Quality of Life

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) sleep more than their peers on average but experience more sleep disturbances that are associated with behavioral difficulties, lower health-related quality of life, and greater maternal depression.

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Collaborative care liaisons and behavior health care managers have been key to the success of Near North Health’s CoCM program. 🔗👇

Researchers have identified long-term changes in nerve fiber density among individuals who took high-dose psilocybin. Do these neuroanatomical changes contribute to psilocybin’s therapeutic effects—or are they just a correlational phenomenon? 🔗👇

Few studies have looked at longer trajectories of traumatic sexual violence, such as its impact on recovery following future traumatic events. https://alert.psychnews.org/history-of-sexual-trauma-linked-to-greater-ptsd-symptoms-following-new-trauma

History of Sexual Trauma Linked to Greater PTSD Symptoms Following New Trauma

Individuals admitted to the emergency department (ED) following a traumatic injury who had a previous history of traumatic sexual violence had significantly greater symptoms of PTSD.

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Staff members who have witnessed the pattern of worsening mental health and rehospitalizations see AOT as a panacea, while opponents worry about impingement on patients’ civil rights. 🔗👇

In ‘Toy Story 5,’ the beloved franchise explores the pervasiveness of screens, including what they cost kids and whether they can be harnessed to encourage connection. 🔗👇

More than one-third of people prescribed medical cannabis meet the current criteria for cannabis use disorder (CUD). https://alert.psychnews.org/applying-dsm-5-framework-for-prescribed-medications-may-help-identify-problematic-cannabis-use

When Does Medical Cannabis Use Become Problematic?

More than one-third of people prescribed medical cannabis meet the current criteria for cannabis use disorder (CUD).

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The idea of making cities more conducive to physical and mental health is being put to the test in communities across the United States and around the world. 🔗👇

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) or neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia (NPS) are a group of psychological reactions, psychiatric symptoms, and behaviors that are unsafe, disruptive, and impair the care of individuals with dementia. 🔗👇