Psychiatric associations offer a slew of opportunities for positive exposure for your business. In addition to industry members of the American psychiatry association, you will have opportunities to be recognized by other psychiatry organization members, including businesses and government organizations that support the councils for psychiatry.

Affiliation with American psychiatric organizations provides lobbying and networking opportunities that can be immensely helpful to your own business interests while you support the industry. Membership in psychiatry councils often means access to information and contacts that can be important to your own company. Regional psychiatric organizations offer even more chances to network with local business leaders in your community. Use your membership in a psychiatry organization in a number of different ways.

1. Expand your network through psychiatric associations

2. Support the industry by participating in a psychiatry organization

3. Stay informed with psychiatry association publications

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Develop business contacts in councils for psychiatry

Psychiatric organizations hold regular meetings, seminars and conventions for members and interested parties. At American psychiatry association events, as well as though various committees in which you could participate, you will have numerous occasions to socialize and network with other business people who support the psychiatrist association. The business leaders you meet could offer a number of trade opportunities for you and your company.

I recommend: The American Psychiatric Association is a member psychiatry association that provides advocacy, training and networking opportunities for members. There are many ways you can serve the membership in the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. You’ll find many industry leaders and management professionals in this psychiatry group.

Show your interest by joining psychiatric associations

If you want to do business with psychiatrists in any kind of capacity, you will want to express your support as well as meet national and local leaders in the industry. You often can do this best by participating in psychiatry councils with both your presence and your financial support.

I recommend: The National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems is a very active psychiatry organization with plenty of opportunities for involvement with other members. Join other members in advocating for the aging at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.

Keep your company in the loop through psychiatric associations

While you may not have time to participate in a trade group or volunteer on a committee, you can take advantage of membership in psychiatric organizations through the myriad publications they put out. By keeping up with the reports and news in the industry, you can pick and choose which events will be most beneficial for you to attend while keeping updated on changes or news that affect American psychiatric organizations industry-wide.

I recommend: The American Association for Emergency Psychiatry provides a number of different resources to stay in touch with the psychiatric community as well as other membership benefits. Receive newsletters and other written resources through the Society of Biological Psychiatry to keep up with the news affecting the industry.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Send your top management team and salespeople to various councils for psychiatry so that your company is well represented at every possible venue.