AACP related writings by Gordon Clark, MD

AACP Founding President

      1. Clark GH: “Confessions of a CMHC Psychiatrist”, The Psychiatric Times, 4(6):16, 26, 1987

      2. Clark GH: “Psychiatrists and Community Mental Health Centers”, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 38:113, 1987

      3. Clark GH, Vaccaro JV: “Burnout Among CMHC Psychiatrists and the Struggle to Survive”, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 38:843-847, 1987

      4. Talbott JA, Clark GH, Sharfstein SS, & Klein J: “Issues in Developing Standards Governing Psychiatric Practice in Community Mental Health Centers”, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 38:1198-1202, 1987

      5. Vaccaro JV, Clark GH: “A Profile of Community Mental Health Psychiatrists: Results of a National Survey”, Community Mental Health Journal, 23(4):48-55, 1987

      6. Clark GH: “Guidelines for Psychiatric Practice in Community Mental Health Settings”, Psychiatric Annals, 19(1):22-26, 1989

      7. Clark GH: “Quality Care at Risk in CMHCs: The Need for Guidelines for Psychiatric Practice”, Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 17(1):25-32, 1989

      8. Clark GH: “Assuring Quality in Community Mental Health Centers”, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 13(1):113-125, 1990

      9. Clark GH: “Psychiatrists’ Role in CMHCs”, Letter to the Editor, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 42:1260, 1991

      10. Clark GH: “National Guidelines Developed in Community Mental Health Centers”, Innovations ‘93 - Models for Cost Management and Health Care Quality." Tampa: American College of Physician Executives, 70-71, 1993

      11. Clark GH: “Guidelines For Practice in CMHCs Continue to Evolve”, Community Psychiatrist, 7(4):7-8, 1993

      12. Clark GH: “Community Psychiatric Practice”, in Career Planning for Psychiatrists in the 1990s. Edited by Dickstein L, Mogul K., Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 133-142, 1995

      13. Clark GH: “Confessions of a Community Psychiatrist: Round 2”, Community Psychiatrist, 9 (2):10, & 9(3):9, 1995

      14. Clark GH: “Founding the AACP – One Community Psychiatrist’s Tale”, Community Psychiatrist 28(1): 5-6, April, 2014


Practicing Psychiatry in the Community: A Manual

Jerome Vaccaro, MD (Founding Editor of the AACP’s newsletter, “Community Psychiatrist”) and Dr. Clark co-edited this book, which was published by American Psychiatric Press, Inc. in 1996. Translations of this were subsequently published in Italy, South Korea, and, Dr. Vaccaro believes, Japan and Poland. John Talbott, MD, former APA President and former Editor of “Psychiatric Services”, wrote the following review of this book: “The editors have put together the first good review of community psychiatry in America in 20 years; it has all the top people, covers the waterfront, and is not afraid of complexity.”