If you’ve purchased Community Mental Health Journal, please contact Frances Bell should you encounter any issues in receiving the journal.

Please complete your membership profile form here.

Welcome to the AACP: A Community for Community Psychiatry

AACP is now your home to connect with a national network of community psychiatrists and allied mental health professionals and peers committed to promoting health, recovery and resilience in people, families and communities.

Immediate actions for you to take:

  1. Please complete your membership profile form here.

  2. Please retain the email address and password you created - you will use these to access the member only section of our site, which you can sign up for here.

With your membership, you will be receiving access to the following member benefits:

  • Our email forum (listserve), where members engage in wide-ranging discussions pertinent to community psychiatry. You will receive email notification once you’ve been added

  • A voice in our Policy and Advocacy Forums to drive the advocacy agenda for the organization and the field.

  • Online access to our journal, the Community Mental Health Journal (and a discounted subscription rate of $40 annually for members who would like printed journals). More details will be shared with you via email

  • Discounts on the community psychiatry board certification exam.

  • Our Newsletter, the Community Psychiatrist

  • Participation in our membership and board meetings, including access to their recorded minutes.

  • Voting in AACP elections for board members or any major changes in organizational policies or procedures.

Finally, we hope you will consider getting involved in ongoing AACP projects or AACP-sponsored initiatives of your own. If you have an interest in doing so, begin by contacting our project coordinator, at projectcoordinator@communitypsychiatry.org.

For questions regarding your membership or any administrative issues, please contact our organization’s administrator Frances Bell at: francesrotonbell@gmail.com.

Again, welcome to our community! Please reach out if we can if we can help you feel more at home.