APA Council on Psychiatry and Law: agenda, email correspondence, memoranda, APA Final Action papers on: "Civility commitment non-offenders in jails pending a hospital bed", "Assuring the Integrity of Clinical Prescribing"; Recommendations of the Corresponding Committee on Confidentiality for an APA Policy on Protection of Privacy in Electronic Medical Records (23 May 2006). Included are APA position statements on: medical participation in capital punishment and insanity defense; Bobbijean P. v. Stephanie P. and Rodney E.Brief of Amici Curiae; State of New Mexico v. Cynthia Martinez a/k/a Cynthia NavarreteBrief Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent. Also: "Outline for the APA Action Plan on Enhance Diversity" (21 May 2007); Honberg, Ronald S.: "Federal Gun Reporting Requirements and their Application to People with Mental Illness" testimony submitted before the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (10 May 2007); memorandum re APA Position on the Insanity Defense (draft) (21 May 2007); APA: "The Patient Self-determination Act: What Every Psychiatrist Should Know" (December 1992); APA Statement on Release of Patients' Records to State Medical Records (draft, 26 March 2006), 2007

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Box MSS 81-9t, Box 3
Scope and content:

2 folders

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