Psychiatr News February 15, 2008
Volume 43, Number 4, page 20
© 2008 American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting Highlights
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Practice Guidelines Project Invites Your Input
A workshop at APA's 2008 annual meeting sponsored by the Steering Committee
on Practice Guidelines will give participants the opportunity to learn about
and comment on in-progress revisions to APA's Practice Guideline for the
Treatment of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder (second edition,
published in 2000). The workshop also will present and field questions about
APA's Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder
(second edition, published in 2002). The third editions of both guidelines are
slated to be published in 2009.
The workshop will take place on Wednesday, May 7, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
in Room 156, Level 1, in the Washington Convention Center. It will be
moderated by John McIntyre, M.D., chair of APA's Steering Committee on
Practice Guidelines. Speakers will include Alan J.Gelenberg, M.D., chair of
the work group revising the depression guideline; Robert M.A. Hirschfield,
M.D., chair of the work group revising the bipolar guideline; and Laura J.
Fochtmann, M.D., medical editor for the APA practice guidelines project.
APA practice guidelines prov ide treatment recommendations that are based
on available evidence from clinical trials and expert consensus. The
guidelines are developed using an explicit process that includes a systematic
review of the scientific literature by an expert work group, broad literative
review of drafts by other experts and the APA membership, and final approval
by the APA Assembly and Board of Trustees. Workshop participants will learn
how to submit comments on draft versions of the depression and bipolar
guidelines.
In 2007 APA approved and published two practice guidelines: Practice
Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(first edition) and Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With
Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias (second edition).
These and other APA practice guidelines can be accessed online free
at
<www.psych.org/MainMenu/PsychiatricPractice/PracticeGuidelines_1.aspx>.
American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of
Psychiatric Disorders, Compendium 2006 can be ordered from American
Psychiatric Publishing Inc. at
<www.appi.org/book.cfm?id=2383>.
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