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Welcome to ADAA's Professional Community

ADAA is the only multidisciplinary professional organization in mental health that engages the world’s leading experts who focus on anxiety, depression and co-occurring disorders. Engaging a membership of more than 1,800 professionals, ADAA strives to improve patient care by promoting implementation of evidence-based treatments and best practices across disciplines through trainings, continuing education and accelerating dissemination of research into practice.

  ADAA promotes scientific innovation and engages a diverse network of clinicians and basic and clinical anxiety and depression researchers with diverse backgrounds in medicine, psychology, social work, counseling, nursing, neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, and other disciplines to advance science and new treatments. 

⇒  ADAA member dues help support the free information and resources that are provided to the more than 38 million annual website visitors to www.adaa.org. Membership dues also help fund the research that will one day prevent and cure anxiety, depression and related disorders. 

Member News and Program Updates

“There’s nothing wrong necessarily with starting your day with your phone and your emails, but it just often backfires," says ADAA member Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA in this Bustle article about checking your phone when you wake up. 
"These studies point out that narcissists can have the mental toughness, confidence, and persistence required to invent, create, lead," says ADAA member Stephanie Kriesberg, PsyD in this article about narcissists and depression.
ADAA members Krystal Lewis, PhD and Daniel Pine, MD are featured in this article on how to help a child struggling with anxiety. 
"I admit it. When I am making rounds at the local psychiatric hospital, I am in a rush to see all the patients as quickly as possible to assure I complete my rounds given the large patient workload. So when I encounter a very anxious patient, I often do what my primary care colleagues do, I prescribe a benzodiazepine (BZD).  The difference is that, on the inpatient unit, I typically prescribe a onetime order, whereas primary care physicians (PCPs) usually give an entire month’s drug supply, often with refills.  And that is the crux of the problem." ADAA member and Chief Medical Officer of VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc Mark Smith, MD, PhD authors this blog post on the long-term use of benzodiazepines.