The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the largest psychiatric medical association, founded in 1844. It represents over 36,000 psychiatrists working to ensure humane treatment for those with mental disorders. The APA produces several authoritative resources, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), multiple academic journals, and reference books. These resources are made available through the APA's online platform PsychiatryOnline (POL), which allows customizable searching and access across publications. POL offers subscription packages that provide access to current and archived psychiatric literature and reference materials.

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Who and What…?
The American Psychiatric
Association (APA)
…is the medical specialty society
representing more than 36,000
psychiatrists in the U.S. and from
around the world.
APA, founded in 1844, is the largest
and longest-serving psychiatric medical
association.
Its member physicians work together to
ensure humane care and effective
treatment for all persons with mental
disorders

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Content, Platform & Packages

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The Content: Reference Books

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The Content:DSM-5®
The product of over 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts
in all aspects of mental health, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive, current, and
critical resource for clinical practice available to mental health clinicians
and researchers of all orientations.
The information contained is also valuable to other physicians and health
professionals, including psychologists, counselors, nurses, and occupational
and rehabilitation therapists, as well as social workers and forensic and
legal specialists.
• The criteria are concise and explicit, intended to facilitate an objective
assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings.
• The latest findings in neuroimaging and genetics have been integrated
into each disorder along with gender and cultural considerations.
• The revised organizational structure recognizes symptoms that span
multiple diagnostic categories, providing new clinical insight in
diagnosis.
• ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM codes are included for each disorder, and the
organizational structure is consistent with the new ICD-11 in
development.

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The Content: Journals
AJP: the most widely-read psychiatric journal in the world.
• AJP in Advance
• AJP Audio
• Treatment in Psychiatry Series
• Clinical Case Conference Series
• Impact Factor of 13.559: in the top 1% of all scientific, medical, and technical journals!
Psychiatric Services
• PS in Advance
• Focuses on the delivery of mental health services, especially for people with severe mental illness in
community-based treatment programs.
• Each issue features 15 or more research reports with results that have practical applications.
• Monthly columns keep readers up to date on important developments in areas such as law and
psychiatry and evolving best practices in service delivery.
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
• JNCN in Advance
• Peer-reviewed articles on critical research areas such as Alzheimer’s disease, Traumatic brain injury,
Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and seizure disorders,
• Each issue commences with the latest from the outstanding signature section “Windows to the Brain.”
• Official journal of the American Neuropsychiatric Association

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The Content: Psychiatric News
• Psychiatrists and mental health
professionals are barraged with
information and news from many
sources each day, both electronically
and through the mail. What’s
important and what’s not?
• Psychiatric News is the “one-stop”
source of information for busy
psychiatrists and mental health
professionals.
• Each issue covers major news and
developments on clinical and
research topics that can help inform
patient care decisions.

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The Platform
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for:
• American Psychiatric Publishing (APP) journals
• DSM-5®
• Bestselling textbooks
• APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
A one-stop resource for information on psychiatric diagnosis, treatment,
guidelines, the latest research, and breaking news from the field.
From a single location, users can search across all books and journals to find the
most relevant content more easily than ever.

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Intuitive
Quick Access to:
• DSM-5
• Journals
• Books
• News

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Powerful
Features Include:
• Cross Content
Searching
• Result Filtering
• Citation Mgr. Output
• Saved Searches and
Alerts
• Favorites Folder
• Journal Articles in
HTML and PDF
• Articles Include
Supplemental
Material

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Flexible
Personalized sub-accounts (“MyPOL”)
Remote Pairing*
Mobile Access*
Athens, IP, Referring URL, Proxy Server, and Userid/PW
authentication
Unlimited Simultaneous Users
Branding
*Coming June 2015

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The Packages
Subscription Options:
• POL Premium
• POL Core
• DSM-5 Library
Archival Purchases:
• Psychiatry Legacy
Collection
• DSM Legacy Collection

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