This FREE, online event will showcase Spectrum’s innovative and translational research & evaluation program. Spectrum’s clinicians, researchers and lead investigators from collaborating organisations will present a range of cutting-edge projects related to personality disorder and complex trauma.

The day will feature keynote presentations by Professor Andrew Chanen, the Chief of Clinical Practice and Head of Personality Disorder Research at Orygen in Melbourne, Australia, as well as a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne. Andrew will be presenting on ‘The Soft Bigotory of Low Expectations for People Living with Personality Disorder’. 

The second keynote speaker will be Professor Sharon Lawn, the Chair and Executive Director of Lived Experience Australia, a nationally awarded mental health consumer/carer advocacy organisation. Sharon will be presenting on ‘BPD, Stigma and Human Rights at the Interface of Mental Health Care: What Progress Have We Made?‘.

See below information about just two of the nine interesting rapid-fire presentations, who will be presenting from 1:00pm – 2:30pm: