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The AAPP Foundation Board of Directors is proud of the Foundation's work in 2025! See our impact in the 2025 Annual Report.

Convince Your Supervisor to Support AAPP 2026 Attendance! The merits of the AAPP Annual Meeting are undeniable. Even so, with most organizations having limited travel and education budgets, it may be necessary to show justification when selling your attendance at AAPP 2026.

Pharmacy residency training is considered the gold standard for pharmacists interested in practicing in direct patient care roles across community and inpatient settings. For those wishing to specialize in psychiatric pharmacy, completing a PGY2 psychiatric pharmacy residency is the most efficient process to train qualified psychiatric pharmacist specialists who are eligible to become board-certified in psychiatric pharmacy (BCPP).

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AAPP envisions a world where all individuals living with mental illness receive safe, appropriate, and effective treatment. To achieve that, it is important to promote practices that reflect the best current evidence available. Thus, over time, all content will either be updated or removed from the web site.

Psychiatric pharmacy continues to grow and look to the future with a focus on helping individuals recover from mental health and substance use disorders. The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (AAPP) considers Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) the gold standard credential that all psychiatric pharmacists should attain to demonstrate specialized knowledge and expertise in psychiatry.

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This mosaic was populated and revealed during CPNP 2022 in San Antonio, Texas by Annual Meeting attendees. Thank you to the CPNP/AAPP Foundation for co-sponsoring this experience!

A 2019 survey identified significant variability of practice characteristics among outpatient psychiatric pharmacists (OPPs), including prescriptive authority. In response to this variability, AAPP launched a project to build consensus and develop practice model statements for psychiatric pharmacists providing direct care in an outpatient setting.