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SCPA
Updates:
2008 Annual Meeting Pictures
2008 Resident Poster Competition Winners
Psychiatric Cause
of Claims Statistics
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objectives of the SCPA are: |
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to
improve the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of the
mentally ill, the mentally retarded, and the emotionally
disturbed; |
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to
promote research, professional education in psychiatry,
and allied fields, and the prevention of psychiatric disabilities; |
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to
advance the standards of all psychiatric services and
facilities; |
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to
foster the cooperation of all who are concerned with the
medical, psychological, social, and legal aspects of mental
health and illness; |
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to
make psychiatric knowledge available to other practitioners
of medicine, to scientists in other fields of knowledge,
and to the public; |
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to
promote the best interests of patients and those actually
or potentially making use of mental health services. |