ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan’s School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry will sponsor a series of free public lectures on “The Social Aspects of Serious Mental Illness” during Community Psychiatry Month in March.

The three-part series will take place at 10:30 a.m.-noon March 10, 17 and 24 at the Maternal and Child Auditorium on the first floor of the U-M Medical Center’s Mott Children’s Hospital.

Psychiatrist Kenneth Tardiff of Cornell University will provide an overview of violence and mental illness on March 10, while psychiatrist Lisa Dixon of the University of Maryland will address medical comorbidity in severe mental illness, March 17.

Dixon also will discuss services to families, from treatment recommendations to dissemination, in a special lecture at 3 p.m. March 16 at the School of Education‘s Whitney Auditorium on the Central Campus.

Finally, Carol Mowbray, associate dean for research at the U-M School of Social Work and associate professor of social work and psychology, will talk about reintegrating people with psychiatric disabilities into higher education, March 24.

For more information on the lecture series, call Margaret Ball, U-M Department of Psychiatry, (734) 936-5981.

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