Council Policy Manual: Health Policies

• APA principles for health care reform

• APA statement on alcohol and other drug abuse (PDF, 34KB)opens in new window

• Application of hypnosis

• Changing U.S. health care system

• Collaboration with professional nursing

• Disaster response network

• English-only Initiatives

• Follow-up to the "Principles for the provision of mental health & substance abuse treatment services: A bill of rights"

• Full participation for psychologists with disabilities (PDF, 83KB)opens in new window

• Guidelines for the practice of telepsychology

• Health care for the whole person: vision and principles

• Health service psychologists as primary health care providers

• Managed care accessibility and reimbursement criteria

• Managed health care programs

• Psychological needs of our troops, veterans, and their families

• Psychologists in public programs

• Recognition of health service providers

• Resolution concerning "Mental health consumer protection acts"
  

• Resolution on licensing for psychoanalysts
  

• Resolution on stigma and discrimination against people with serious mental illness and severe emotional disturbance   

• Strategies to promote increased public understanding of the independent practice of psychology
  

• Use of "Dr."

• Veterans Affairs (VA) psychology

• Resolution on assisted dying

• Applied behavior analysis

• Guidelines for the evaluation of dementia and age-related cognitive change (PDF, 488KB)opens in new window

• APA position statement on managed care (MC) and utilization review (UR)
• APA principles for health care reform
• APA resolution for the use of the term patient in American Psychological Association policies, rules, and public relations activities when referring to health-related and scientific activities of health service psychologists and scientists in health care services and settings (PDF, 75KB)opens in new window
• Application of hypnosis
• Applied behavior analysis
• Changing U.S. health care system
• Collaboration with professional nursing
• Comprehensive and coordinated psychological services for children: A call for service integration (PDF, 1.1MB)opens in new window
• Counseling in HIV testing programsopens in new window
• Criteria for evaluating treatment guidelines
• Criteria for the evaluation of quality improvement programs and the use of quality improvement data  
• Disaster response network
• Evidence-based practice in psychology
• Follow-up to the "Principles for the provision of mental health & substance abuse treatment services: A bill of rights"
• Guidelines for prevention in psychology (PDF, 142KB)opens in new window
• Guidelines for psychological practice in health care delivery systems
• Guidelines for psychological practice with older adults
• Guidelines for the evaluation of dementia and age-related cognitive change (PDF, 488KB)opens in new window
• Guidelines for the practice of telepsychology
• Health care for the whole person: vision and principles
• Health service psychologists as primary health care providers
• Impaired psychologists
• Integrated health care for an aging population (PDF, 2.4MB)opens in new window
• Managed care accessibility and reimbursement criteria
• Managed health care programs
• Maternal Mental Health Resolution on Racially Minoritized Women (PDF, 85KB)opens in new window
• Model act for state licensure of psychologists (PDF, 111KB)opens in new window
• Psychologists in public programs
• Reclaim the distinctiveness of the term "psychology"
• Recognition of health service providers
• Recognition of psychotherapy effectiveness
• Removal of licensure exemptions for psychologists in public health care programs
• Resolution concerning "Mental health consumer protection acts"
• Resolution on APA endorsement of the concept of recovery for people with serious mental illness
• Resolution on assisted dying
• Resolution on combination biomedical and behavioral approaches to optimize HIV prevention (PDF, 64KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on drug abuse treatment to prevent HIV among people who inject drugs (PDF, 67KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on licensing for psychoanalysts
• Resolution on neuropsychological assessment of persons living with HIV infection (PDF, 51KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on prescription privileges for psychologists
• Resolution on stigma and discrimination against people with serious mental illness and severe emotional disturbance
• Resolution on U.S.-based legal liability related to confidentiality and the prevention of HIV transmission (PDF, 38KB)opens in new window
• Use of "Dr."
• Veterans Affairs (VA) psychology

• Resolution on advancing health equity in psychology (PDF, 100KB)opens in new window
• Changing U.S. health care system
  
• Empirically supported sex education and HIV prevention programs for adolescents
  
• Psychology’s role in advancing population health (PDF, 150KB)opens in new window
  
• Removal of licensure exemptions for psychologists in public health care programs
  
• Resolution on data about sexual orientation and gender identity
  
• Resolution opposing HIV criminalizationopens in new window

• Health service psychology: preparing competent practitioners (PDF, 37KB)opens in new window
  
• AIDS
  
• APA resolution for the use of the term patient in American Psychological Association policies, rules, and public relations activities when referring to health-related and scientific activities of health service psychologists and scientists in health care services and settings (PDF, 75KB)opens in new window
  
• Counseling in HIV testing programsopens in new window
• Empirically supported sex education and HIV prevention programs for adolescents
  
• Health service psychologists as primary health care providers
  
• HIV prevention strategies involving legal access to sterile injection equipment
• Model act for state licensure of psychologists (PDF, 111KB)opens in new window
  
• Psychology’s role in advancing population health (PDF, 150KB)opens in new window
  
• Recognition of health service providers
• Resolution on combination biomedical and behavioral approaches to optimize HIV prevention (PDF, 64KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on drug abuse treatment to prevent HIV among people who inject drugs (PDF, 67KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on neuropsychological assessment of persons living with HIV infection (PDF, 51KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on U.S.-based legal liability related to confidentiality and the prevention of HIV transmission (PDF, 38KB)opens in new window

• AIDS
• Counseling in HIV testing programsopens in new window
• Empirically supported sex education and HIV prevention programs for adolescents
  
• HIV prevention strategies involving legal access to sterile injection equipment
• Resolution on drug abuse treatment to prevent HIV among people who inject drugs (PDF, 67KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on combination biomedical and behavioral approaches to optimize HIV prevention (PDF, 64KB)opens in new window
  
• Resolution on neuropsychological assessment of persons living with HIV infection (PDF, 51KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on sexual Health education in youth
  
• Resolution on U.S.-based legal liability related to confidentiality and the prevention of HIV transmission (PDF, 38KB)opens in new window
• Resolution opposing HIV criminalizationopens in new window

• Psychology’s understanding of the challenges related to the COVID-19 global pandemic in the United States (PDF, 250KB)opens in new window

• AIDS
  
• Counseling in HIV testing programsopens in new window
  
• Drug abuse treatment to prevent HIV among injecting drug users
  
• Empirically supported sex education and HIV prevention programs for adolescents
  
• HIV prevention strategies involving legal access to sterile injection equipment
  
• Legal liability related to confidentiality and the prevention of HIV transmission
  
• Neuropsychological assessment and HIV infection
  
• Resolution on combination biomedical and behavioral approaches to optimize HIV prevention
  
• Resolution on sexual health education in youth
• Resolution opposing HIV criminalizationopens in new window

• Managed care accessibility and reimbursement criteria
  
• APA position statement on managed care (MC) and utilization review (UR)
  
• Managed health care programs

There are currently no policies relating to this topic.

• APA resolution on promotion of healthy active lifestyles and prevention of obesity and unhealthy weight control behaviors in children and youth

• Psychological needs of our troops, veterans, and their families

There are currently no policies relating to this topic.

• APA statement on alcohol and other drug abuse (PDF, 34KB)opens in new window
  
• Drug abuse treatment to prevent HIV among injecting drug users
  
• Follow-up to the "Principles for the provision of mental health & substance abuse treatment services: A bill of rights"
• HIV prevention strategies involving legal access to sterile injection equipment
• Resolution on cigarette smoking
• Resolution on Pregnant and Postpartum Adolescent Girls and Women with Substance-Related Disorders

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• Special Populations Policies