Bio:

Dr. Dana Alonzo 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.

Research 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 Grants & Projects:

• National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD): “Enhancing Treatment Engagement of Suicide Attempters”
• American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP): “Enhancing Treatment Engagement of Suicidal Individuals”
• Community Engagement resource, Irving Institute, Columbia University (CER): “Offspring of Mothers with Schizophrenia and the Community: A Pilot Study"

Selected Publications & Presentations:

Books Published
Worchel, D. & Gearing, R. (2010). Suicide Assessment and Treatment; Empirical and Evidence-Based Practices. New York: Springer Publishing Inc.

Selected Presentations
Lizardi, D., & Thompson, R. (2009, October). The relationship of past treatment for depression to current functioning among Suicide attempters and non-attempters in the U.S. Paper presented at the 25th IASP World Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Stanley, B. H., & Lizardi, D. (2009). Enhancing treatment engagement of suicidal individuals in ED settings. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the American Assoication of Suicidology, San Francisco, CA.

Thompson, R., Lizardi, D., & Hasin, D. (2009). Offspring lifetime alcohol dependence: The influence of maternal and paternal histories of alcohol problems and childhood parental divorce/separation. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Conference, San Diego, CA.

Lizardi, D. (2008). Predictors of outpatient treatment non-participation among depressed individuals. Symposium presented at The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), Washington, D. C.

Lizardi, D., Harkavy-Friedman, J., Stanley, B. H., Sher, L., Grunebaum, M. F., Burke, A. K., & Oquendo, M. A. (2008). Does suicide attempt status predict treatment utilization following a major depressive episode? Poster presentation at the 12th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour, Glasgow, Scotland.

Journal Articles
Oquendo, M.A., Lizardi, D., Greenwald, S., Weissman, M., & Mann, J., (2004). “Rates of Lifetime Suicide Attempt Relative to Rates of Lifetime Major Depression in Different Ethnic Groups in the United States”, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 110, 446-451.

Lizardi, D., Currier, D., Galfalvy, H., Sher, L., Burke, A., & Mann, J. (2007). Perceived Reasons for Living at Index Hospitalization and Future Suicide Attempt, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195(5):451-455.

Lizardi, D., Dervic, K., Grunebaum, MF., Burke, A., Mann, JJ., & Oquendo, MA. (2007) The Role of Moral Objections to Suicide in the Assessment of Suicidal Patients. Journal of Psychiatric Research, Aug;42(10):815-21.

Sher L, Stanley BH, Harkavy-Friedman JM, Carballo JJ, Arendt M, Brent DA, Sperling D, Lizardi D, Mann JJ, Oquendo MA. (2008). Depressed Patients With Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders: A Unique Patient Population. J Clin Psychiatry, 69(6), 907-915.

Richardson-Vejlgaard R, Sher L, Oquendo MA, Lizardi D, Stanley B. (2008). “The Acceptability of Suicide among Mood Disordered Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics”, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 43(4):360-365.

Thompson, RG, Lizardi, D, Keyes, K & Hasin, D. (2008). Childhood parental divorce, parental history of alcohol problems, and offspring lifetime alcohol dependence. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 98(3):264-269.

Gearing RE & Lizardi D. (2008). Religion and Suicide. Journal of Religion and Health, 27(2):154–156.

Lizardi, D., Oquendo, M.A., Graver, R. (2009). Clinical Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Ataque de Nervios, Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(3):463-486.

Richardson-Vejlgaard, R., Sher, L., Oquendo, M.A., Lizardi, D., & Stanley, B. H. (2009). Objections to suicide among mood disordered patients with alcohol use disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 117(3): 197-201.

Lizardi, D., Sher, L., Sullivan, G., Stanley, B., Burke, A., & Oquendo, M. (2009). Family history of suicide attempts and severity of suicide attempt. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , 119(5): 406-410.

Lizardi D. & Gearing RE. (2010). Religion and Suicide- Part II. Journal of Religion and Health, 48(3): 332-341.

Lizardi, D., Thompson, R., Keyes, K., & Hasin, D. (2010). Parental divorce, parental depression, and gender differences in adult suicide attempt in offspring. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197(12); 899-904.

Lizardi, D., Thompson, R., & Hasin, D. (2010). The effect of parental remarriage following parental divorce on offspring suicide attempt. Families in Society, 91(2), 186-192.

Lizardi, D., Thompson, RG, & Hasin, D. (2010). The role of depression in the differential effect of childhood parental divorce on male and female adult offspring suicide attempt. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198(9):687-690.

Lizardi, D., Stanley, B. & Oquendo, M. (2010). Treatment Engagement and Suicide Attempters: A review. Psychiatric Services, 61:1183-1191.

Alonzo, D., Thompson, R., Keyes, K., & Hasin, D. (In Press). The relationship of past treatment for depression to current functioning: Individuals in the U.S. general population with a history of major depression. Social Work and Mental Health.

Alonzo, D., Harkavy-Friedman, JM, Stanley, BH, Sher, L, Grunebaum, M, Burke, AK, Oquendo, MA. (In Press) Predictors of treatment non-participation following` a major depressive episode. Archives of Suicide Research

Gearing, R. E., Alonzo, D., Marinelli, C. Maternal Schizophrenia: Psychosocial treatment for Mothers and Their Children (In Press). Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Disorders.

Alonzo, D., Grunebaum, M., Oquendo, MA., Stanley B., Mann JJ. (In Press). Social Adjustment, Attachment Style and Suicide Attempt. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Last updated November 14, 2011.