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.