Policy Issues and Statements

System Transformation Issues

Rights and Privacy Issues

Services Issues

Children's Issues

Criminal Justice Issues

Linkage to Broader Issues

Position Statement Archive

The following statements have been archived but are still available in PDF format for review.

Position Statement 12: Evidence-based healthcare (PDF)
Position Statement 25: Community inclusion aftre Olmstead (PDF)
Position Statement 26: Participant protections in psychiatric research (PDF)
Position Statement 27: Standards for management of and access to consumer information (PDF)
Position Statement 34: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and other electromagnetic brain treatments (PDF)
Position Statement 35: Aging well: Wellness and psychosocial treatment for the emotional and cognitive challenges of aging (PDF)
Position Statement 61: Affiliate and national office participation in policy development and legislative activity (PDF)
Position Statement 62: Mental Health America's role in litigation (PDF)
Position Statement 63: Participation in mental health planning, advisory, and governance boards (PDF)
Position Statement 71: Health care reform (PDF)

Policy Issues and Statements

System Transformation Issues

In support of recovery-based systems transformation

Integration of mental and general health care

Parity in health insurance

Addressing the health-related social needs of people with mental health and substance use conditions

Promotion of mental wellness

Cultural and linguistic competency in mental health systems

Rights and Privacy Issues

Rights of people with mental health and substance use conditions

Involuntary mental health treatment

Psychiatric advance directives

Seclusion and restraints

Services Issues

Development of employment services for adults in recovery from mental health and substance use conditions

Access to medications

Substance use disorders

Self-determination initiatives

Peer support services

Supportive housing and housing first

Children's Issues

Early identification of mental health issues in young people

Services for children with mental health conditions and their families

The federal role in services that address the health and wellness of children, youth, and families

Residential treatment for children and adolescents with serious mental health and substance use conditions

Discipline and positive behavior support in schools

Promotion of mental health during early childhood

Custody relinquishment and funding for care and treatment of children

Prevention of mental health and substance use disorders in young people

Perinatal mental health

Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Criminal Justice Issues

Children with emotional disorders in the juvenile justice system

In support of maximum diversion of persons with serious mental illness from the criminal justice system

Mental health courts

Death penalty and people with mental illnesses

Confining sexual predators in the mental health system

Mental health treatment in correctional facilities

In support of the insanity defense

Life without parole for juvenile offenders

Responding to behavioral health crises

Linkage to Broader Issues

Violence: Community mental health response

College and university response to mental health crises

Position Statement Archive