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    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY
    A District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association
    The Association for Excellence

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    Your concurrent membership in the Southern California Psychiatric Society (SCPS), the California Psychiatric Association (CPA), and the American Psychiatric Association (APA), ensures that your professional interests and those of your patients are represented at the local, state, and national levels.






    SCPS
    One psychiatrist can accomplish little. Together we can be an influential force. At the Southern California Psychiatric Society, we're 1,200+ strong. And with your participation, growing stronger every day.



    The Professional Agenda

    ADVOCACY

    Who pays attention to a single voice? Probably not your local legislator. When 1,200+ voices and voters support one message, that message is hard to ignore. That's advocacy.

    Advocacy means supporting your patients' right to receive quality care, as well as supporting the right of all who suffer with mental illness to receive quality care. Advocacy also means fighting against regulatory intrusions, fending off legal challenges and contesting governmental policies that constrict or diminish your professional freedom.


    AWARENESS

    Organized psychiatry seeks to create a climate of public awareness and understanding of your profession and how you work as a psychiatric physician. Together, we will continue to communicate the great advances being made in the treatment of mental illness and how these advances benefit society. Our active public affairs program routinely uses public service announcements, placements on television and radio talk shows, press releases and a Speakers Bureau to broadcast our messages...
    Accurately.
    Positively.
    Professionally.


    INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

    Provocative.
    Insightful.
    Multiple award winning.

    SCPS' newsletter always keeps you informed.




    Professional Development

    Consider SCPS your invitation to continued professional excellence. Annual scientific symposia, annual psychopharmacology meeting, and regional /committee-sponsored meetings keep you up-to-date on developments in the field. Your membership ensures that in a rapidly changing health care environment, you and your profession survive.


    As with any activity, you benefit most by being active. SCPS offers numerous avenues for your participation.




    SCPS -
    you and your peers working to realize the potential and power of organized Psychiatry.

    Southern California Psychiatric Society
    2999 Overland Ave., Suite 208
    Los Angeles, California 90064

    (310) 815-3650
    email: scps2999@earthlink.net

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