Anti-Saneism in Mental Healthcare:
Mad/Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice
Laura Yakas, PhD, MSW 
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 2026 3:OOPM-6:00PM
Birmingham Maple Clinic 
3 CEUs Total, VIRTUAL (ZOOM)

Objectives:

• • Understanding Ableism: 1) Helpful Social Theories to understand ableism: Social Construction, Pathologization, Medical vs. Social Model of Disability; 2) Ableism, anti-ableism, and Disability Justice
  • Understanding Saneism: 1) Helpful social theories to understand saneism: the Pathology Paradigm, Epistemic Oppression, and Multi-level Oppression; 2) Saneism in mental healthcare
  • Anti-saneism theory: the Neurodiversity and Trauma-informed paradigms
  • Anti-saneism practice outside of the mental healthcare system: psychiatric abolitionism and mad-affirming peer support programs
  • Anti-saneism practice within the mental healthcare system: 1) anti-saneist clinical practice framework; 2) anti-saneist assessment tools
  • Anti-saneism practice within the mental healthcare system: 3) anti-saneist application of interventions / anti-saneist clinical behaviors

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