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The American Psychiatric Guideline for Schizophrenia

PsiAN’s comment on the American Psychiatric draft practice guideline for Schizophrenia.

The American Psychiatric Association has issued a call for comments on its ‘draft practice guideline’ for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. PsiAN has written a strong response, with concerns about the specific treatment recommendations, types of evidence that were considered or not, and the overall guidelines process.

Here is the document we submitted to the APA: PsiAN Comment on the proposed APA Schizophrenia Guideline

June 2019