NAMI's Ask the Expert

Caregivers and families struggle to help relatives while navigating health care systems, providers and community supports. Our presenters will discuss the barriers families encounter and review a guidebook for mental health caregivers.

Join us while we discuss how mental health and its treatment varies across cultures and communities. We'll also provide insight into how psychiatry is viewed and accepted across different cultures.

We were thrilled to hold this NAMI's Ask the Expert as a live broadcast from the 2018 NAMI National Convention in New Orleans. In this replay, you’ll hear (and watch!) presentations from our expert panel as they share their unique role in ensuring that people seeking mental health treatment are treated with respect, dignity and equality.

Held on International Self-Injury Awareness Day 2018, this webinar provides a unique insight into self-harm for those struggling with self-harm, their family members and medical professionals.

People with serious mental illness (4 – 6% of the U.S. population) have a life expectancy that is 11-30 years shorter than that of the general population. This webinar covers approaches to reducing that early mortality risk.

How have we gotten to the point where, in many parts of the country, fatal overdoses from narcotics are three times the rate of suicides?

Learn more about Ketamine, an anesthetic drug that in very small doses has been shown to relieve symptoms of depression within hours—even in patients who did not improve with other treatment.

In this webinar, Dr. Greene discusses innovative strategies from his Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model for working with behaviorally challenging kids.

Learn why some people living with mental illness believe they don't need help or see obvious symptoms, and how this can become an obstacle to helping them get help.

Learn about exciting new research findings that point to better outcomes and maximized recovery when young people receive treatment during early psychosis from presenter, Dr. Lisa Dixon.