Novel Approaches to Behavioral Health Innovation is a monthly lecture series offered through Vail Health Behavioral Health Innovation Center and
University of Wisconsin-Madison. The series features innovative leaders in behavioral health treatment and research and offers continuing education credit for mental health professionals.
As the rate of mental illness—especially depression, anxiety, and substance abuse—continues to climb in the United States, the mental health field of medicine is in dire need of new perspectives and treatments. The Novel Approaches to Behavioral Health Innovation Lecture Series seeks to address this mental health crisis head-on by providing fresh, scientifically-supported perspectives on mental illness and a framework for understanding a range of new evidence-based treatments. The novel interventions explored in this lecture series approach emotional health in ways that leverage ecological and psychosocial understandings of wellbeing and that tap into evolved human capacities for strengthen psychological and physical resilience factors that are protective against mental illness.
Who is the lecture series for?
The Novel Approaches to Behavioral Health Innovation Lecture Series is designed for psychologists, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, physicians, nurses, physician assistants, social workers, and other behavioral health clinicians. However, a vast variety of interesting and popular mental and behavioral health topics will be covered throughout this series. We encourage anyone interested in the topics to participate and learn.