About the Department & Our Mission
The Yale Department of Psychiatry is a world leader in patient care, research, and education. Our department prides itself on its diverse and talented faculty, including a cadre of compassionate clinicians, inter-disciplinary teams of talented investigators, and numerous committed and dedicated teachers, as well as a network of able alumni that remain vital to our missions.
Mission, Vision & Values
The Yale Department of Psychiatry is dedicated to enhancing well-being, facilitating recovery, and reducing the oppression and suffering associated with mental illness. We do this through:
- The pursuit of excellence in education, practice, prevention, policy, and research;
- The development of transformative leaders; and
- Restorative and reciprocal community engagement.
We embrace multiple approaches to learning, levels of analysis, and ways of knowing.
Throughout this work, we strive to nurture a diverse community of trainees, staff, faculty, and partnerships, characterized by compassion, dignity, humility, inclusivity, and justice.
About the Department
The Yale Department of Psychiatry is dedicated to providing the highest quality education in the field of Psychiatry; to providing leaders and leadership for the field; and to acquiring and disseminating new scientific knowledge pertinent to the causes and treatments of severe neuropsychiatric disorders and to serving as a model of exemplary mental health care for students and society.
The Yale Department of Psychiatry's teaching and research efforts further advance the body of knowledge in neurochemistry, genetics, psychopharmacology and brain imaging, as well as in social and behavioral therapies.
Our teaching, research and clinical programs span across three geographically distinct clinical settings, including the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, and the Psychiatry Service at the West Haven Campus of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, in a wide variety of areas including substance abuse, schizophrenia, health care delivery systems research, molecular psychiatry and many more. In each of these areas there is a critical mass of investigators who, although sometimes geographically separated, work as a team along with clinicians to address the challenges provided by these diverse disease areas. Our clinical services are enhanced by our research efforts. Known for their close alliance to our research staff, our clinical components are at the forefront of treatment both pharmacological and social.
In addition, the department’s Psychology Section, with more than 200 full-time and voluntary faculty, is one of the largest and most accomplished groups of psychologists in an academic medical center.
As a department, we not only provide the highest quality of patient care, but also lead the nation in discoveries that are transforming our understanding and treatment of mental illness and addiction.