Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depressive, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma-related disorders through education, practice, and research. ADAA provides education about the disorders and helps people find treatment, resources, and support. ADAA strives to improve patient care by promoting implementation of evidence-based treatments and best practices across disciplines through continuing education and trainings and accelerating dissemination of research into practice.
ADAA promotes scientific innovation and engages a diverse network of basic and clinical anxiety and depression researchers and providers encouraging the implementation of new treatments to clinicians. ADAA aims to:
- Help people understand the disorders, find treatment, and recover by educating people about all scientifically supported treatments so they can make informed decisions to best meet their individual needs.
- Support professionals who provide treatment and those who conduct research
- Invest in the future by encouraging students and trainees
- Bring together clinicians and researchers with diverse backgrounds in medicine, psychology, social work, counseling, nursing, neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, and other disciplines to advance science and treatment; engage those who suffer from these disorders to work together toward our goals.
- Support public health by leading the way, improving the lives of millions of children and adults and promoting professional and public awareness of anxiety, depression related disorders
- Encourage the advancement of scientific knowledge about causes and treatment of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and related disorders by working with its mental health professional member base and the broader scientific community
- Link people who need treatment with the health care professionals who provide it, find appropriate treatment and develop self-help skills and
- Work to reduce the stigma surrounding anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and related disorders.
ADAA is the only multidisciplinary professional organization in mental health that engages the world’s leading experts who focus on anxiety, depression and co-occuring disorders. Engaging a membership of more than 1,700 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.
- Promote 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.
- Helping support the free information and resources that are provided to the more than 22 million global website visitors.
Organisation
Address: 8701 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, Maryland
Country: United States of America
Email: information@adaa.org
