To Innovate patient care: We embrace new treatments, technologies, and approaches to improve mental health outcomes and patient experiences.

Compassionate Patient-Centered Care: We focus on providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to, individual patient preferences, needs, and values. Decisions should be made in consultation with patients (and, when appropriate, their families), ensuring that their own values and perspectives are a central part of the treatment process.

Confidentiality: We affirm that confidentiality is critical in psychiatry because of the deeply personal and sensitive nature of the information shared. Patients must be able to trust that their information will be kept confidential in order to build a therapeutic relationship with their psychiatrist.

Integrity and Honesty: These values are key in any medical discipline but are particularly critical in psychiatry, where the therapeutic relationship is built on mutual trust and respect. Psychiatrists offer honest assessments and maintain ethical boundaries in all professional interactions.

Respect for Autonomy: We recognize the patient’s right to make their own medical decisions, including the right to refuse treatment, unless they are in danger of themselves or others.

Social Justice:  We believe that psychiatrists have an ethical responsibility to advocate for equitable access to mental healthcare for all individuals, irrespective of factors like socio-economic status, race, or ethnicity.