The APA issued 8 recommendations covering crisis protocols, disclaimers, anti-dependency design, and sycophancy prevention, forming a clinical-authority baseline for GiveCare's safety architecture.
Crisis protocol guidance mandates immediate routing to human support when imminent risk is detected, directly shaping the wiki's crisis-gate escalation flow.
The advisory warns against AI systems that reinforce user dependency through affirmation-heavy responses, informing GiveCare's tone calibration and sycophancy guardrails.
Disclaimer requirements specify that users must be informed they are interacting with AI, not a licensed professional, referenced in GiveCare's consent and onboarding flows.
The APA recommends periodic clinical review of AI-generated content in mental-health-adjacent contexts, supporting GiveCare's human-in-the-loop review cadence.