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Conferences

Yale-National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder Conference

The conference is aimed at mental health professionals, training clinicians, and researchers, as well as those with lived BPD experience and their family members.

Yale NAMI Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health

An annual spring conference in New Haven that provides an opportunity for community members, patients and their families, and providers to come together and hear about new advances in the care for mental illness from Yale experts.

Past Conference Topics

RebPsych Conference

RebPsych was inspired by RebLaw, the annual Yale Law School conference that began in 1994 shortly after the publication of the eponymous work Rebellious Lawyering (1992) authored by Gerald P. Lopez, a law professor and clinician who inspired a generation of lawyers to rethink how best to serve individuals who are disempowered and undocumented. To read about Lopez's Rebellious Lawyering and the scholarship it has inspired among poverty law practitioners and community organizers, please visit rebelliouslawyeringinstitute.org

RebPsych covered topics such as Challenging Immigration Detention of traumatized people and individuals with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities; Insights on Power: A Panel Discussion on Involuntary Treatment and Informed Consent; Harm Reduction and Discretion: Fighting Client Criminalization for Self-Managed Abortion; and Policing Psychiatric Crises in Urban Emergency Departments: An
Ethnographic Study.

Yale Refugee Health Conference

The Physical & Mental Health of Refugees: Navigating Systems for Afghan Arrivals Conference covered these learning objectives:

  • Describe the current state of refugee resettlement locally and nationally
  • Review the challenges faced by recent Afghan arrivals, with a focus on the education and mental health systems
  • Describe the creation of a new clinic to meet the health needs of refugees/arrivals in Connecticut
  • Describe national-level capacity building innovations for meeting the needs of new arrivals