In 2023, AAPP increased its efforts in terms of outreach and engagement with legislators, regulators, and partner organizations and weighing in on issues impacting the membership and outlined in the 2023 Health Policy Agenda. As the new year begins, we look back on the many advocacy activities AAPP was engaged in last year with the expectation that 2024 will be action packed and full of opportunity to educate and promote the vital work of psychiatric pharmacists.
Telehealth is defined by the Health Resources Services Administration as "the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, health administration, and public health.” These technologies can include the internet, video conferencing, store-and-forward imaging, media streaming, and land and wireless communications.1
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) encompass the social conditions shaping individuals’ lives including where they are born, grow, work, live and age. This complex framework significantly influences not only one’s health, but also their overall well-being and quality of life.1 These SDOH are commonly grouped into five distinct domains.
Congratulations to Jennifer Bean, Julie Dopheide, Vicki Ellingrod, Ian McGrane and all the other members making an impact in psychiatric pharmacy!
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Happy New Year and welcome to our January AAPP Perspective featuring articles commissioned by our Resident and New Practitioner Committee around the topic of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Take this opportunity to learn from your peers as well as hear from AAPP President Amy Werremeyer about AAPP's top 5 mission critical AAPP New Year’s resolutions for 2024.
We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Annual Meeting, scheduled for April 7-10, 2024, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, a secluded oasis situated perfectly southwest of downtown Orlando. The Omni Orlando provides a secluded resort environment perfect for education and networking. AAPP 2024 is a perfect opportunity to refocus on your career, connect with colleagues, and to come away refreshed with tangible practice ideas and recommendations.
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AAPP is proud to host psychiatric pharmacists, psychiatric pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students of diverse races, ethnicities, religions, genders, and sexual orientations at AAPP 2024. AAPP understands how the environment in the host state of Florida may be concerning to conference registrants and members and, as such, AAPP has taken many steps to prioritize the attendee experience and wellbeing.
Stigma and Psychiatric Disorders [VIDEO] At the 2015 CPNP Annual Meeting, the Foundation supported programming entitled “Stigma and Psychiatric Disorders: Understanding and Managing Personal Biases." That program is available as a resource for all healthcare practitioners.
The Career Achievement Award was established by the AAPP Foundation to recognize an AAPP member whose career has demonstrated sustained excellence in psychiatric or neurologic pharmacy and the profession of pharmacy. It is one of the highest honors recognizing outstanding, sustained contributions that advance and expand psychiatric or neurologic pharmacy.
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A burgeoning mental health crisis is evident in the United States, despite the country’s dedication of significant human resources and spending on mental health care and research. Effectively responding to this crisis is impeded by the dominant framing of mental ill health through the prism of diagnostic categories, leading to an excessive reliance on pharmacological interventions that are delivered by specialists.
Anxiety disorders share features of persistent and excessive worry and can interfere with many daily activities. Approximately 19.1% of United States adults had an anxiety disorder in the past year and the lifetime prevalence is as high as 31%. Anxiety disorders are often treated with medication, psychotherapy, or a combination of both.
Outside of conversations around suicide, disease progression, death, and dying are not commonly discussed in psychiatric practice. Palliative care for patients with mental illness is not typically considered beyond the context of terminal medical illness.
In an era where technology is a necessary part of our day-to-day, it often feels like we can’t thrive without our phone and the many applications that make it personal to us. Thanks to digital therapeutics (DTx), phones have become an important component of treatment. Mental health DTx are application-based programs which aid patients in navigating treatment for their mental health disorder(s).
Customized, Energizing, Unique, Targeted—these are all adjectives used to describe the AAPP Annual Meeting. The opportunity to participate in this high quality, practical event is now available for 2024.
As I prepare the President’s column for this edition of the AAPP Perspective, I am fresh out of a virtual fall retreat with the AAPP Board concentrated on our strategic plan progress. As a reminder, our current strategic plan was approved in late spring of 2021. It is regarded, by far, as the most aggressive strategic plan AAPP has ever adopted and launched us into an entirely new area of profession advocacy.
The AAPP Foundation continues to promote mental health education to psychiatric pharmacists, residents, and students nationwide by sponsoring Mental Health First Aid training. AAPP Director of Continuing Professional Development Beth DeJongh, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, is the lead faculty member for the training and is joined by AAPP member Emma Palmer, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, Associate Professor at the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati.
AAPP community leaders, committees, and taskforces have been hard at work planning the next AAPP Communities Week, a 3-day virtual event taking place December 11-13, 2023! This event is exclusively for AAPP members, and you’re invited!
What another exceptional year for our AAPP student chapters! Fifty-two collegiate chapters submitted an annual report presenting an overview of their 2022-2023 academic year. The Membership-Marketing Subcommittee of the Student Committee reviewed the reports for highlights of the year, noting significant community service, campus activities, research, and professional growth.
Psychiatric pharmacy preceptors often encounter pharmacy trainees on rotation who may not initially share a strong interest in psychiatric pharmacy, which can undoubtedly be challenging. How can we keep these trainees engaged throughout the rotation? It’s worth noting that many students may not fully grasp the close integration of general medical conditions with psychiatric disorders.
Primary care providers prescribe almost 80% of antidepressant prescriptions and see approximately 60% of people being treated for depression in the United States.1 There is typically limited support from specialty services for this type of prescribing in primary care.