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Dana Lizardi



Assistant Professor of Social Work

E-mail: dl2298@columbia.edu
Telephone: (212) 851-2254
Office: Room 706

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Bio:

Dr. Lizardi was a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow. She has comprehensive practice experience in the areas of child and adolescent mental health, family therapy, and crisis-intervention. She spent many years as a bilingual clinician in an inpatient psychiatry unit, a psychiatric emergency room, an adult ambulatory psychiatry department, and a child and adolescent psychiatry clinic. She has worked primarily with Latino clients.


Professional Interests:

  • Suicide attempt
  • Protective factors
  • Hispanics and mental health
  • Ataques de Nervios
  • Race, ethnicity and culture in mental health research
  • Treatment engagement and adherence of suicide attempters


Current Research:

  • Reasons for living and future suicide attempt risk
  • Moral objections to suicide and suicide attempt risk
  • Interventions to improve treatment adherence of suicidal individuals
  • The Reasons for Living Inventory and psychometric properties of the six subscales
  • Differences in treatment engagement and rates of treatment adherence by ethnicity


Recent Publications:

Oquendo, M.A., Lizardi, D., Greenwald, S., Weissman, M., & Mann, J., “Rates of Lifetime Suicide Attempt Relative to Rates of Lifetime Major Depression in Different Ethnic Groups in the United States”, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, in press.

Lewis-Fernandez, R., Guarnnacia, P., Patel, S., Lizardi, D., Diaz, N. “Ataques de Nervios: Anthropological, epidemiological, and clinical dimensions of a cultural syndrome”, in Georgiopoulos, A.M. and Rosenbaum, J.F. (Eds.), Massachusettes General Hospital Handbook of Multicultural Psychiatry, Lippincott, Williams, And Wilkins, in press.

 

Last updated April 23, 2008.

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