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We can, and should, empathize with students’ trauma. But we shouldn’t validate desires to shield them from discomforting course content, writes Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, in Inside Higher Ed.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry's Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology has selected its incoming class of 14 fellows who will spend a year training at one of nine clinical sites based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and Yale New Haven Hospital.

Craig Bailey, PhD, and colleagues at Yale Child Study Center are deepening the conversation about how social and emotional skills are taught in classrooms and how we can bring greater clarity and rigor to that work in schools.

Johanna Perez, postgraduate associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been selected to receive a 2026 CPA Travel Award for the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Conference, sponsored by APA Division 50.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Accountability, Respect, Community, and Humanity (ARCH) group held its second event February 5 in its Leadership Pathway Meet and Greet Series. The speakers were Joy Kaufman, PhD, deputy chair for career development; Kirsten Wilkins, MD, interim deputy chair for education; and John Cahill, MD, residency program director.

The PEER management team is excited to announce that Joanna Meyer has assumed the role of director. Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, will continue to serve on the PEER management team as co-director.

John Krystal, MD, chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, was the first guest at the Accountability, Respect, Community, and Humanity (ARCH) Leadership Pathway Meet and Greet Series.

Cultural stigma toward mental health care, medical mistrust, and insurance barriers keep many Black men from seeking and receiving mental health care, research shows.

In a new study, Yale researchers discovered that the use of a clinical decision support tool improved the care of sexual assault survivors in the emergency department.