American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting On Demand 2026

• Target Audience: psychiatrists, psychiatrists in training, and other clinicians
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American Psychiatric Association 2026 Annual Meeting on Demand

Program Release Date: May 17, 2025

Program Objectives

Upon completing this educational activity, participants will be able to:

Describe new research findings in psychiatry and neuroscience and how they may impact practice

Apply quality improvement strategies to improve clinical care

Provide culturally competent care for diverse populations

Describe the utility of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment options

Integrate knowledge of current psychiatry into discussions with patients

Identify barriers to care, including health service delivery issues

Target Audience

Psychiatrists, psychiatrists in training, and other clinicians

Best for psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health clinicians who want updates on psychopharmacology, clinical practices, and research.

• Topics:

Saturday (5/16)

“In This Economy?!”: Taking Control of Psychiatric Practice with Resource-Smart Lifestyle Psychiatry Interventions

Advancing Quality Improvement in Psychiatry: Case Examples in Education Informatics and Innovation

Applying APA Practice Guidelines to the Real World: Benefits and Barriers to Evidence-Based Care

Artificial Intelligence: Highway to Heaven or Road to Hell?

ASD Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning Across the Lifespan from Childhood through Adulthood for the Clinician

Autism Meets Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Differentiating and Empowering the Diagnostic and Treatment Gray Zone

Beyond Burden, Toward Value: Psychiatry at the Crossroads of Value-Based Care

Beyond the Familiar: Deep Brain Stimulation, Ketamine, Stellate Ganglion Block, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Interventional Psychiatry

Clinical Relevance of Big Data Studies – What Can Clinicians Learn From Them?

Current Perspectives on Treatment Resistant Depression

Emergency Department or Crisis Response Center? Where Do I Belong?

Expanding Knowledge and Optimizing Safety: Best Practices for Psychiatrists Working with Advanced Practice Providers in Diverse Settings

From Molecular Mechanisms to Global Health Equity: The New Frontier in Psychiatric Genomics Research

Involuntary Commitment in Psychiatry: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What’s at Stake

Mind Over Matter: Resilience, Risk, and Recovery in Military and Sports Settings

Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Using Practical Psychodynamics to Understand and Address Pharmacologic Treatment-Resistance

Safeguarding Patients, Supporting Clinicians: How Do We Address Cognitive Concerns in Aging Colleagues?

The Last of Us: Surviving AI through Resilient Policies in Medical Education

The Missing Face of Catatonia: An Overview of Catatonia in the Context of Addiction

The New DSM Z Code for Moral Problems: What Does It Add?

The Road After Residency: Scopes and Barriers and Immigration Impacts for IMGs

The Startup Psychiatrist: Building Mental Health Ventures That Heal

Translating Psychiatric Genetics Into Better Clinical Care

Training the Next Generation: Building the Field of Academic Sports Psychiatry Education

What Can NIDA Research on Collaborative Care Models Teach Us About Improving Substance Use Care?

Sunday (5/17)

A Role for AI to Expand Mental Health Care Assessment and Treatment in an Under-Resourced Community Setting

Applying to Psychiatry Residency? This Program Directors Panel Has Answers!

Balancing Minds and Organs on Lithium: Navigating Bipolar Disorder with Thyroid and Kidney Challenges

Basics of Psychodermatology: The Overlap Between Psychiatry and Dermatology Presents Opportunities for a Rewarding Psychiatric Practice

Beyond Psychopharmacology, Empowering Psychiatrists to Build an Interventional Practice

Bipolar Illness: An Update on Recent Research

Carving Meaningful, Fulfilling Career Paths in Psychiatry: Association of Women Psychiatrists’ Presidential Session

Catching Faking: Malingering Detection for the General Psychiatrist

Childbirth-Related PTSD: Recognizing and Treating a Unique Subtype of PTSD

Clinical Insights From Neuroimaging of Substance Use Disorders

Decoding OCD: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Emerging Treatments in OCD

Diagnosing Dementia: An Updated Roadmap for Clinical Practice

Designing a Safer Workplace: Addressing Violence in Inpatient Psychiatry

Empowering Practice Through Telepsychiatry: Practical Logistics Across Psychiatric Subspecialties

Empowering Psychiatric Residents in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Education and Practice

Empowering Psychiatrists in Supporting Student Mental Health

Essential Management Skills for Psychiatric Medical Directors and Executive Leaders

Empowering the Psychiatric Workforce: Advocacy for Our Patients and Practices

Empowering the Psychiatric Workforce: Taking Control of our Time to Optimize Professional and Personal Wellbeing

Food, Nutrition, and Mental Health: Practical Approaches for Nutrition Counseling with Patients

From Brain to Blood: Mechanism-Based Biomarkers for Psychosis Prediction and Personalized Early Intervention

From Clinical to Capitol! Understanding advocacy and policy through psychiatric integration at local, state, and national levels

From School to the Emergency Room: The Threat Continuum

Guns ‘n Roses: Intimate Partner Violence, Red Flags, and the Law

Hippocrates Revisited: Psychiatric Ethics in Modern Clinical Practice

The NIH Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD)? Study Reaches its own Developmental Milestone

Lifestyle Interventions for Depression: Expert Consensus

Mixed Features in Persons with Depressive and Bipolar Disorder: Historical, Conceptual, Nosological and Clinical Implications

Moving the Needle in Combating the Opioid Epidemic: Leveraging Partnerships to Expand the Capabilities of the Psychiatrist

Medications Development for Cannabis and Alcohol Use Disorders

Precision Psychiatry: Addressing Unmet Needs in Clinical Practice

One Patient, Multiple Needs: Treating AUD, PTSD plus

Privacy vs Publicity in the Digital Age-Tales From Four Psychiatrists

Prognostic Molecular Markers in PTSD: From Vulnerability to Recovery

Psych on the Mic: Podcasting in Psychiatric Education and Continuing Professional Development

Reaching Across Party Lines- Managing Functional Neurological Disorder in the Inpatient Medical Setting

Simon Bolivar Award: Reimagining Academic Medicine to Ensure That All Faculty Thrive: A Focus on Policies to Support Caregivers

Reconceptualizing Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry

Stand and Deliver: Testifying with Authority as a Clinical Psychiatrist

Strategies to Advance Clinical, Academic, and Public Health Excellence in the Face of Global Mental Health Challenges

Deprescribing 1: Benzodiazepines and Z-Drugs

Deprescribing Antipsychotics: Why, When, How

The Global Economic Case for Investment in Mental Health

Two Sides of a Scale: Balancing Lifestyle and Pharmacology for Weight Management

What Comes Next? Co-Creating the Future of Psychiatric Training and Practice

When Disaster Hits Home: How Every Psychiatrist Can Engage in Disaster Preparedness and Response

Monday (5/18)

AI and Large Language Models Beyond Therapy: Clinical Evidence, Regulatory Consideration, and Next Generation Features

Behind the Mask: When Trauma Looks Like Depression, Anxiety, ADHD or Psychosis

Bipolar Disorders Treating Comorbid Conditions: Substance Use Disorders

Capacity Building for Mental Health Care, Research, and Education: From America to the World and Back

Clozapine Monitoring – Life After REMS

Collaborative Care: Leveraging Psychiatry to Improve Mental Health at the Population Level

Death Anxiety in Serious Illness: Clinical Insights for Psychiatry

Decoding “Pregnancy Brain”: Neuroendocrine Shifts and Psychiatric Presentations

Digital Therapeutics to Treat Comorbid Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders

Eco-Medicine and the Mind: Redefining Psychiatric Practice in a Changing Climate

Empowering Women in Psychiatry: Development and Advancement Strategies for Early Career Psychiatrists

Empowerment and Inspiration: Equipping Psychiatrists To Integrate Spirituality and Religion in Child and Adolescent Practice

From Obstacles to Opportunities: IMG Struggles and Success in Residency Match and Beyond – Program Director’s Views

From Practice to Purpose: Cultivating Leadership in Psychiatry

From Research to Practice: Issues Arising in Psychiatric Patients Who Use Cannabis

From Trainee to Changemaker: Experiential Leadership Skills for Psychiatry’s Next Generation

Future of the DSM – A Strategic Vision

Future-Proofing Psychiatry: Why Measurement-Based Care Is No Longer Optional

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Alcohol Use Disorder: Converging Evidence Across Multiple Human Trials

Guiding patients through the wilderness of mobile health applications, an update to APA’s App Advisor tool

Herbs, Nutrients, and more for Disorders of Mood, Anxiety, Trauma, Cognitive Function, ADHD, and Sexual Function

Inflammation in the Brain and the Body

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Trauma and Depression

Leading From Every Seat: Five Leadership Skills for Psychiatrists

Making the Treatment of Trauma Enjoyable with Accelerated Resolution Therapy

Management of Severe Mental Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

Manfred S. Guttmacher Award: Critical Issues in Forensic Addiction Psychiatry

Microbiome Gut Brain Axis: Innovative Interventions for Patient Care

New Program Development and Expansion of Programs: A Resource Toolkit

Practical Management with “Scary” Meds: How to Impress Your Attending After APA

Psychiatric Malpractice – A Primer for the General Psychiatrist

Psychiatrists as Co-Designers of Safe AI: A Practicum in Evaluating LLM-Based Chatbots

Psychiatry, Law, and APA: Mental Health Policy In and Out of the Courts

Revitalizing community psychiatry Part II: Present challenges that impact our future capacity to disrupt, include, engage and innovat

Sex, Drugs, and Mental Health: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Desire and Dysfunction

The Biopsychosocial Impact of Gambling Disorder

The PNEI Nexus: Multidirectional Interactions Between Alimentary, Humoral, Immunological, Dermatological, and Psychiatric Systems.

Vestermark Award: Preserving the Art of Medical Lecturing

Yes, You Can Treat Substance Use Disorders in Your Psychiatric Practice

Tuesday (5/19)

Adolf Meyer Award: Psychotherapy Must Remain an Integral Part of Psychiatry

Borderline, Bipolar, or Both: The Diagnostic Dilemma

Breaking Barriers: Expanding Psychiatric Access in America

Brief Educational Interventions to Empower the Psychiatric Workforce to Decrease Addiction Stigma

Feeling stuck, unsure, bored or worried with patients? Jump start effective care with mentalizing!

From Tantrums to Triggers: The Diagnostic Puzzle of Irritability in Children and Adolescents

Flourishing as a Woman Physician Leader: Strategies Across the Career Continuum

Graying with Complexity: Addressing Psychiatric Care and Needs of Older Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

High Suicide Risk in Autism: Pathways to Hope and Prevention

Innovation for Impact in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Humor and Balance as Therapeutic Resources: Tools and Techniques in Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy

Lessons in Resilience and Building a Sustainable Career for Clinicians and Researchers: A Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture

Military Cultural Competency: A primer for psychiatrists

Mission Ready Sleep: Adapting CBT-I to Military Challenges

Monetizing the Social Impact of Psychiatry: Flipping the Dialouge

Mock Trial on Testamentary Capacity and Undue Influence

Monoamines and so Much More: How Lifestyle Interventions Target Novel Hypotheses of Depression

Navigating Misconceptions Around the Use of Psychotropics in Pregnancy

New Developments in the Diagnosis of Personality Disorders and Their Clinical Importance

Next-Gen Psychiatry: Pathways to Interventional Psychiatry Training

Parasomnia and the Sleepwalker Defense: When Sleep Becomes a Crime

Pills, Performance, and Permission: Management of Elite Athletes with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Positive Psychiatry and Global Empowerment: Strengthening Well-Being Across Borders

Preparing the Psychiatric Workforce: Recognizing and Treating Cannabis Use Disorder in Older Adults

Psychedelics as Psychiatric Treatment: Hope or Hype?

Psychiatric Chronification: When the Patient’s Use of Medications Does Not Promote Mental Health

Psychiatry at a Crossroads: Empowering Canada’s Workforce

Psychiatry at the Crossroads: Weight Stigma, Mental Health, and the New Era of Obesity Treatments

Reimagining Psychiatry’s Career Ladder: Lessons From Big 4 Consulting for Sustainable Growth

Rethinking the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Experience – The Impact of Architectural Design

Sharing Our Expertise: Teaching Psychological Skills to Palliative Care Clinicians

Secret Levels: Video Game Personas and Dual Virtual Lives

Setting the Record Straight on Physician Health Programs in the United States

SSRIs: Efficacy and Safety From Childhood to Young Adulthood

Shifting Landscapes: Epidemiology of Ketamine, LSD, and Psilocybin Use Amid Psychiatry’s Psychedelic Renaissance

Stimulants for ADHD: Did We Get It Wrong? Questioning the Sustainability of Stimulants for Life

The Evolution of Sports Psychiatry at International and National Levels

The Future of Psychiatric Classification: Strategic Work on A New Diagnostic and Scientific Manual (DSM)

The Most Recent US Data on Medical Aid in Dying: Vulnerability, Protection, Access, and Justice

The Much Too Medicated Patient: Rational and Irrational Polypharmacy

Toward Precision Psychiatry in PTSD: Subtype Discovery From Molecular and Neural Signatures

What’s Your Dosha? Ayurvedic Phenotypes for Targeted Treatment in Major Depression

What Every Psychiatrist Needs To Know About TMS

Yes, You Can! Empowering the Psychiatric Workforce through Teaching and Bolstering Psychotherapy Skills for Substance Use Disorders

Unhoused, Unseen, Untreated, America’s Housing Crisis: What does the evidence say about housing, homelessness, and mental health?

Wednesday (5/20)

A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Digital Interventions and Augmented Intelligence for Mental Health

Beyond the Individual: Cultivating Community, Forging Alliances, and Leveraging Professional Organizations for Women Hispanic Psychiatrists

Bipolar Disorder: Diagnose Like an Expert

ECP Panic Relief: When Patients Ask If You Do Psychotherapy, Here is Where to Start

Empowering Your Practice: Home Neuromodulation Implementation One Device at a Time

From Promise to Practice: Psychedelic Research for Everyday Psychiatry

Pediatric Neuromodulation: Stepwise Innovations in Empowering Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Psychiatric Care – Wellness Therapies

Saving Lives of Older Adults on Lithium for Bipolar Disorder: A Global Quality Improvement Initiative to Implement Change in Laboratory Reporting

Shots Fired and Shots Poured: How Neural Pathways in Post-Traumatic Stess Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder Inform Effective Dual Diagnosis Treatment

Special Considerations for Providing Comprehensive Mental Health Support to Youth Involved in Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention

Taking Action Together: Leveraging the Organized Medicine Policy Process to Protect Patients and Empower the Psychiatric Workforce

Taking Care of the Eating Disorder Patient Across the Lifespan

The Clock Within: The Impact of Circadian Rhythm on Health and Implications for Psychiatric Practice

The NNDC Revisiting Contrasting Dopamine Antagonist / Agonist Mechanism of Actions in Clinical Practice of Mood Disorders

The Role of AI and Humane Intelligence in Advancing Healthy Aging in Psychiatry

Understanding and Preventing Targeted Violence Against Psychiatrists

Updates in the Assessment and Management of Clozapine Induced Myocarditis

Using Artificial Intelligence for Suicide Risk Stratification: The National Resident Policy Debate