Abstract
The records of the Nevada Association of Psychiatric Physicians (NAPP) document the professional association's membership, activities, and advocacy from 1984 to 2000. The records indicate how NAPP organized the professional psychiatric community in Southern Nevada, held meetings on various public health initiatives, networked with other professional organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, and published articles and newsletters on a variety of psychiatric topics.
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The records of the Nevada Association of Psychiatric Physicians (NAPP) document the professional association's membership, activities, and advocacy from 1984 to 2000. The records include membership lists, officers' documents, membership guidelines, plans for annual meetings, monthly meeting minutes, staff directories for local hospitals, achievement awards, attendance records, and publications. Also included are financial records, travel reports, and conference agendas. Additional information pertains to several psychiatric areas of interest, including child development and compulsive gambling.
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Collection is open for research.
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Arrangement
Materials are arranged alphabetically.
Biographical / Historical Note
Before 1978, psychiatrists from Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming participated in the Inter-Mountain Psychiatric Association (IPA). In 1978, the IPA dissolved, and psychiatrists from Northern Nevada formed the Nevada Association of Psychiatric Physicians (NAPP). That same year, NAPP merged with the Las Vegas Psychiatric Society, which had been holding monthly meetings in local hospitals. NAPP later changed its name to the Nevada Psychiatric Association (NPA). Part of NAPP's mission (and NPA's ongoing objectives) was to cooperate with the American Psychiatric Association to spread information about psychiatry and promote professional standards.
Sources: "A Brief History of the NPA," Nevada Psychiatric Association, accessed June 18, 2014, http://www.nvpsychiatry.org/about-us.
Preferred Citation
Nevada Association of Psychiatric Physicians Records, 1984-2000. MS-00428. Special Collections and Archives, UNLV Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 2001 by Rena Nora; accession number 2001-08.
Processing Note
Material was processed by Special Collections staff in 2001. In 2014, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Lindsay Oden revised and enhanced the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards. Subsequently Lindsay Oden entered the data into ArchivesSpace.