February 13, 1996
Contact: Kelly C. Lockhart, (615) 322-2706
Mental illness expert to speak at Vanderbilt University's Peabody
College
NASHVILLE -- Michael J. Goldstein, University of California at Los
Angeles professor of psychology and psychiatry, will present "Family
Research and Intervention with Psychotic Patients" Thursday, Feb. 22
at 4 p.m. in 241 MRL Building.
Goldstein is being brought to Vanderbilt University's Peabody College campus
as part of the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
Lectures on Human Development and Mental Retardation. His visit is co-sponsored
by Vanderbilt University's Department of Special Education, Department of
Psychology and Human Development, Department of Psychology and Developmental
Psychopathology Training Program.
Goldstein has published more than 200 journal articles on a range of topics
including family therapy, family interactions, expressed emotion, etiology
and treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder.
In 1985, he received the Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Award;
in 1987, the Cumulative Contribution to Research in Family Therapy Award;
and in 1988, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.
The current president of the Society for Research on Psychopathology, Goldstein
also has received numerous research grants from the National Institute of
Mental Health to study families and schizophrenia, and he has served on
NIMH grant review panels.
Parking for the event is available in the Wesley Place Garage on 21st Avenue
South and Scarritt Place at standard Central Parking rates.
For more information, call 322-8240.
-VU-
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