Therapist Unlimited Blog

The American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP) has been working since 1984 as the only national organization that solely represents community psychiatrists.
The AACP had developed guidelines for practice adopted by the American Psychiatric Association.
The AACP had developed a model community psychiatry training curriculum for psychiatric residents.
The AACP promotes community psychiatry issues to the APA, the Mental Health Task Force of JCAHO, the National Community Mental Health Care Council, and other national organizations.

The mission of the AACP is to encourage, equip, and empower community and public psychiatrists to develop and implement policies and high-quality practices that promote individual, family and community resilience and recovery.
It does so through four key activities:

1.Advocating for and partnering to implement resiliency and recovery-oriented services and continuously improving systems for the people we serve, especially children, elderly, and other underrepresented groups.
2.Ceating and sustaining a network of collegiality and support for community and public sector psychiatrists, many of whom work in challenging and nontraditional service settings.
3.Developing and disseminating a foundation of knowledge relevant to community psychiatric practice and community health care based on effective clinical practice and relevant humanitarian and social values.
4.Actively advocating to influence a wide array of health and social welfare policies across all levels of government and service systems, including delivery system design, reimbursement, research, and treatment guideline policies.

The official website of the organization is http://www.comm.psych.pitt.edu/.