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Dorothy and Irving Bernstein Reference Center  •   Melvin Sabshin Library & Archives
 
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2010

Xenophobia, immigration and mental health (PDF)

2009

Abortion and Women's Reproductive Health Care Rights (PDF)
Access to Firearms by People with Mental Illness (
PDF)
College Mental Health and Confidentiality (PDF)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Major Depressive Disorder (
forthcoming)
Guidelines for Psychiatrists in Consultative, Supervisory or Collaborative Relationships with Nonphysician Clinicians (
PDF)
Integrated Care of Older Adults with Mental Disorders (
PDF)
The Internet in Clinical Psychiatry (
PDF)
Psychiatric Advance Directives (
PDF)
Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS) White Paper (
PDF)

2006

Psychiatrists' responses to requests for psychiatric information in federal personnel investigations (PDF)
Religious/spiritual commitments and psychiatric practice (
HTML)
The Use of restraint and seclusion in correctional mental health care (
PDF)

2005

Brain imaging and child and adolescent psychiatry with special emphasis on SPECT (HTML)

2004

Alternatives to managed care (PDF)
Consensus statement on "Managing the risks of repetitive transcranial stimulation" (
PDF)
Guidelines for psychiatric “fitness for duty” evaluations of physicians (
PDF)
Mental illness and the criminal justice system: Redirecting resources toward treatment, not containment (
PDF)
Same sex marriage (
PDF)

2003

Mental Retardation and Capital Sentencing: Implementation of Atkins v. Virginia (HTML)

2002

Mental illness: Treat them right at first sight (PDF)
Pharmacy benefit management and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) (
PDF)
Psychotherapy by psychiatrists, Documentation of (
PDF)
Psychotherapy notes provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) privacy rule (
PDF)

2001

Carve-outs and discrimination (PDF)

1999

Disclosure and confidentiality, Guidelines concerning (licensing board questions re. prior psychiatric treatment) (PDF)
Managed care reviewers, Guidelines of practice for (
PDF)
Mandatory outpatient treatment (
PDF)
Psychiatric leadership in organized delivery systems, Recommendations for (
PDF)

1998

Guidelines for psychiatric practice in state and community psychiatry systems (PDF)
HIV and children (
PDF)
Medical necessity determinations, Model statutory provision on state licensure of physicians making (PDF)
Medical necessity, Model statutory provision on burden and standard of proof in decisions about (
PDF)
Model legislation on managed care drug formularies (
PDF)
Research subjects with cognitive impairment, Guidelines for assessing the decision-making capacities of potential (
PDF)
Telepsychiatry via videoconferencing (PDF)

1997

Child custody, Controversies in: gay/lesbian parenting; gender issues; transracial adoption; and joint/sole custody (PDF)
General principles for the operation of managed mental health and substance abuse organizations (PDF)
Guidelines for ethical practice in organized settings (
PDF)
Medical use of marijuana (HIV/AIDS) (
PDF)
Psychotherapy with medical evaluation and management (
PDF)

1996

AIDS policy: guidelines for inpatient psychiatric units (PDF)
Computerized records: a guide to security (
PDF)
HIV-infected psychiatrists (PDF)
Medical psychotherapy (
PDF)
Occupational HIV exposure: protocols and protections (PDF)
Peer review of expert testimony (
PDF)
Preserving patient confidentiality in the era of information technology (
PDF)
Principles for evaluating guidelines intended to promote high quality cost-effective care (
PDF)
Principles of informed consent in psychiatry (
PDF)

1995

Guidelines for psychiatric practice in state and community psychiatry systems (HTML)
Professional responsibilities of psychiatrists in evolving health care systems (
PDF)
Recommendations for psychiatric leadership in organized delivery systems for treatment of psychiatric, including substance related, disorders
Regulatory guidelines for protecting the interests of psychiatric patients in emerging health care systems (
PDF)

1993

Guidelines for psychiatric practice in public sector psychiatric inpatient facilities (PDF)
HIV infection and psychiatric hospitalization of children and adolescents (
PDF)
Legal sanctions for mental health professional-patient sex (
HTML)
National health care reform, A Recommendation for Pursuit of the Following Principles on (
PDF)

1992

AIDS policy: guidelines for inpatient psychiatric services
Patient self-determination act: what every psychiatrist should know (PDF)
Women in academic psychiatry and research

1991

AIDS policy: guidelines for outpatient psychiatric services (PDF)
Model job description for a medical/clinical director in the office of the state mental health program director (
PDF)
Medication, Right to refuse (
PDF)

1990

Guidelines to District Branches for a policy on physician impairment (HTML)
Leadership in public mental health facilities: Guidelines for the chief executive officer and the medical/clinical director (
HTML)
Occupational HIV exposure protocols and protections, Interim guidelines for (
HTML)
Psychiatrists who are HIV infected, Interim guidelines regarding (
HTML)
Security clearance, Guidelines regarding the role of the psychiatrist when requested to provide information about patients for (
HTML)

1989

Psychiatrists' signatures, Guidelines regarding (PDF)

1987

AIDS policy: confidentiality and disclosure
Confidentiality, Guidelines on (
PDF)
Physician's duty to take precautions against patient violence (
PDF)

1983

Social Security Disability claimants, Guidelines for psychiatric evaluation of

1982

Psychiatric hospitalization of adults, Guidelines for legislation on the (PDF)
Radio/television. Guidelines for psychiatrists appearing on (
HTML)

1981

Psychiatric hospitalization of minors: clinical and legal considerations, Four alternatives to the guidelines for the (PDF)
Psychiatric hospitalization of minors, Guidelines for the (
PDF)

1978

Confidentiality of health and social service records, Model law on (HTML)

1977

Communications media, Guidelines for psychiatrists working with the (HTML)