Position Statements are developed on issues relevant to psychiatry and in which the College has a public position.  Common uses include answering queries from the media and the general public and are also used to advocate the College’s considered view on certain issues.

#22 Psychiatry services for older people 

#29 Neurosurgey for mental disorders 

#31 Relationships between geriatric and psychogeriatric services

#32 Abolition of torture

#34 Deep sleep therapy

#35 The role of psychiatrists in disasters and terrorism

#37 Policy on Mental Health Services

#38 HIV/AIDS

#41 St John's Wort

#42 Stolen generations

#44 Telepsychiatry

#45 Pathological/problem gambling

#46 Principles on the provision of mental health services to asylum seekers

#47 Psychiatrists as team members

#47b The Roles and Relationships of Psychiatrists

#48 Trainee Safety in the Workplace

#50 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health workers 

#51 Child sex abuse

#52 Children in immigration detention

#54 Psychotherapy conducted by Psychiatrists

#55 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

#56 Children of parents with mental illness

#57 Mothers, babies and psychiatric inpatient treatment 

#58 Sexualisation of children in contemporary media

#59 The mental health care needs of children in out-of-home care 

#60 Sexual reorientation therapies *new*

#61 Minimising the use of seclusion and restraint in people with mental illness *new*

#62 Consumer and carer engagement *new*