Psychiatric Times December 15, 2022
Bob Doppelt, Elizabeth Haase, MD, David A. Pollack, MD

Legislation includes a CDC community public health approach to build mental wellness and resilience.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has recently endorsed bipartisan legislation introduced in the fall in the House by Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and in the Senate by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). The legislation seeks to reduce the current epidemic of mental and behavioral health problems and prevent future ones by using a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and resilience for all types of toxic stress, including those generated by the climate emergency.

The legislation, H.R. 9201, The Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act, is an urgently needed new policy that will direct...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Mental Health, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Regulations
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