Task Force Reports

       

"The findings, opinions, and conclusions of these task force reports do not necessarily represent the views of the officers, trustees, all members of the task force, or all members of the American Psychiatric Association. The views expressed are those of the authors of the individual chapters. Task force reports are considered a substantive contribution of the ongoing analysis and evaluation of problems, programs, issues, and practices in a given area of concern."    APA Operations Manual  

      


2005 Prevention of mental disorders and promotion of mental health [forthcoming]
2003 Patient safety and psychiatry
Ethical principles and practices for research involving human participants with mental illness
A vision for the mental health system
2002 Psychiatric emergency & crisis services (PDF, 487 KB)
2001 The practice of electroconvulsive therapy: Recommendations for treatment,
      training, and privileging (2nd ed.) --
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Quality indicators for children -- Purchase @ APPI
2000 Psychiatric services in jails and prisons (2nd ed.) -- Purchase @ APPI
1999 Dangerous sex offenders -- Purchase @ APPI
Quality indicators (HTML) -- Purchase @ APPI
Recommendations on APA/business relationships
1995 On the use of mental health services by minors
Psychiatric services for addicted patients --
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1994 DSM-IV sourcebook - Purchase @ APPI:
     
Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 / Vol. 3 / Vol. 4 (out-of-stock)
Ethnic minority elderly --
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1993 Clinician safety (TFR #33) -- Purchase @ APPI
Psychosocial treatment research in psychiatry
Selected models of practice in geriatric psychiatry --
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State mental hospitals and the elderly -- Purchase @ ProQuest UMI's Books On Demand
1992 Consent to voluntary hospitalization (TFR #34)
Day care for early preschool children: implications for the child and family
Psychiatric consultation in schools
Psychosocial treatment research in psychiatry --
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Selected models of practice in geriatric psychiatry
Tardive dyskinesia (2nd ed.) --
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Treating the homeless mentally ill -- Purchase @ APPI
The use of psychiatric diagnoses in the legal process (TFR #32)
1991 Disclosure of psychiatric treatment records in child custody disputes (TFR #31)
State mental hospitals and the elderly
Treating the homeless mentally ill
1990 Benzodiazepine dependence, toxicity, and abuse -- Purchase @ APPI
Homeless families and children : a psychiatric perspective (Second Interim Report)
The practice of electroconvulsive therapy: Recommendations for treatment,
      training, and privileging R
Prevention research
Psychiatric services to adult mentally retarded and developmentally disabled
      persons (TFR #30)
Psychiatrist and the juvenile justice system
Psychiatry and homeless mentally ill persons: General directions for public policypopulation
Quantitative electroencephalography
1989 Cults and new religious movements -- Purchase @ APPI
Guidelines for psychiatric practice in staff model health maintenance organizations
Nursing homes and the mentally ill elderly (TFR #28) (PDF, 320 KB)
Psychiatric services in jails and prisons (TFR #29)
Treatments of psychiatric disorders --
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1988 Child custody consultation (2nd ed.)
1987 Involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment (TFR #26) (PDF, 195 KB)
Sudden death in psychiatric patients: The role of neuroleptic drugs (TFR #27) (PDF, 206 KB)
1986 Changing family patterns in the United States (TFR #25)
Credentials and privileges for psychiatrists in hospital-based services (TFR #24)
Dexamethasone suppression test: an overview of its current status in psychiatry
An Overview of legal issues in geriatric psychiatry (TFR #23)
1985 Human rights
Seclusion and restraint: the psychiatric uses (TFR #22)
Tricyclic antidepressants--blood level measurements and clinical outcome
1984 Family therapy and psychiatry
The homeless mentally ill --
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Psychiatry and industry
Psychiatry in the sentencing process
1982 A typology of community residential service (TFR #21) -- Purchase @ ProQuest UMI's Books On Demand
Child custody consultation
Ethical dimensions of psychiatric intervention in terrorist and hostage situations
Psychosocial aspects of nuclear developments (TFR #20) --
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1981 1981 White House Conference on Aging
Biofeedback (TFR #19) --
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Community mental health centers
Private practice representation in the governance of the American Psychiatric
      Association
1980 Tardive dyskinesia (TFR #18) -- Purchase @ ProQuest UMI's Books On Demand
1979 Relating environment to mental health and illness: The ecopsychiatric data base (TFR #16)
Survey of mental health services for medical students (TFR #17)
The History of American psychiatry: A teaching and research guide (TFR #15)
1978 Electroconvulsive therapy (TFR #14) R -- Purchase @ ProQuest UMI's Books On Demand
Professional liability insurance and psychiatric malpractice (TFR #13)
Religion and Psychiatry
1977 Problem-oriented system in psychiatry (TFR #12)
1976 Psychiatrist as psychohistorian (TFR #11)
1975 Confidentiality and third parties (TFR #9)
Current status of lithium therapy
Psychiatrists' viewpoints on religion and their services to religious institutions 
      and the ministry (TFR #10)
Psychosocial and cultural determinants of population policy
1974 Clinical aspects of the violent individual (TFR #8)
Intervening in community crises : an introduction for psychiatrists
1973 Behavior therapy in psychiatry (TFR #5)
Megavitamin and orthomolecular therapy in psychiatry (TFR #7)
Methadone maintenance and narcotic blocking drugs
Present and future importance of patterns of private psychiatric practice in the
      delivery of mental health services (TFR #6)
Social change and the mental health of children
1972 Community mental health centers (TFR #4) (PDF, 3.888 MB)
1971 Automation and data processing in psychiatry (TFR #3) (PDF, 8.584 MB)
1970 Encounter groups and psychiatry (TFR #1)
Psychiatric education and the primary physician (TFR #2) (PDF, 8.678 MB)
Research aspects of community mental health centers