WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 4, 2025 — The latest issues of three American Psychiatric Association journals (The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services and Focus) are now available online.
American Journal of Psychiatry
The November issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry brings together research on schizophrenia, alcohol use disorder, and stimulant use disorder. Highlights of the issue include:
- Environmental, Psychiatric, and Genetic Predictors of Alcohol Use Disorder Criterion Count: Analyses of African and European Ancestries (Deputy Editor Daniel Pine, M.D., highlights the study in this video)
- Contingency Management for Stimulant Use Disorder and Association With Mortality: A Cohort Study (Lead author Lara Coughlin, Ph.D., is the guest on November's AJP Audio podcast episode, and Deputy Editor Daniel Pine, M.D., highlights the study in this video)
- Pathways to Psychosis: Factors Associated with Risk for Psychosis Spectrum Disorders
- Transcriptomic Analysis of the Human Habenula in Schizophrenia (APA news release)
Psychiatric Services
The November Issue of Psychiatric Services features the following:
- Evaluation of Alignment Between Large Language Models and Expert Clinicians in Suicide Risk Assessment
- Reasons Why Suicidal Adolescents Want to Live: A Corpus-Driven Language Analysis
- Promoting Youth Mental Health Through Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Educational Initiatives in Schools
- The Needs of Most or Most in Need: How Integrated and Transdiagnostic Youth Services Assess and Address Mental Health Needs
Focus
Volume 23, issue 4 of Focus is also online now. Led by Guest Editor Robert O. Cotes, M.D., of Emory University School of Medicine, it highlights new and developing treatments in schizophrenia and widens the lens on recovery-oriented approaches for schizophrenia by uniting both pharmacologic and psychosocial treatment strategies.
- A Call to Action for Starting Clozapine: Increasing Clozapine Use and Safety in a Post-REMS Era
- Why Not Rock the Boat? Deprescribing Anticholinergic Medications That Are No Longer Needed in Persons with Schizophrenia
- Risk Factors and Management Strategies for Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain: A Prescriptive Review for Clinicians
- Smartphone Apps and Digital Tools for Managing Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: A Clinical Review
- From Theory to Therapy: The Evolution and Future of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis in U.S. Mental Health Care
- Switching Between Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Medications
Journalists who wish to access the publications should email press@psych.org.
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association, founded in 1844, is the oldest medical association in the country. The APA is also the largest psychiatric association in the world with more than 39,200 physician members specializing in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses. APA’s vision is to ensure access to quality psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. For more information, please visit www.psychiatry.org.
Journal
American Journal of Psychiatry