Adelphi Addresses Policy, Practice and Partnerships in Recovery from Mental Illness
Featuring Dr. William Anthony
Garden City, NY
March 26, 2003
Adelphi University is pleased to present a conference on mental health on Thursday March 27 and Friday March 28 at The Ruth S. Harley University Center. "Crossing Boundaries: Policy, Practice and Partnerships in Recovery from Mental Illness" begins with a lecture sponsored by Adelphi's prestigious School of Social Work and The Wishnick Endowment and presented by Dr. William Anthony, one of the pioneers in the field of recovery-oriented rehabilitation and a renowned expert in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation as a researcher, educator, and clinician. The lecture takes place in the University Center Ballroom at 7:30 PM on Thursday, March 27, and is free and open to the public.
Dr. William Anthony is the Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. He has authored over 100 articles in professional journals, 14 textbooks and several dozen book chapters, the majority on the topic of psychiatric rehabilitation. Dr. Anthony is also the recipient of a number of national honors including a Distinguished Service Award of the President of the United States. Dr. Anthony has applied his distinguished academic record to issues that highlight the necessity of tearing down barriers that isolate individuals diagnosed with mental illness from themselves and from one another, and is at the center of two days of attention to the topic at Adelphi.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and is followed on Friday March 28 by the full conference at the University Center, with a keynote address in the morning at 9:30 - 10:30 on "Women and Mental Health Issues" with Dr. Janice Wood Wetzel, morning workshops, and a luncheon honoring Dr. Davis Pollack, Co-Founder of the Suffolk Coalition of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. There follows a roundtable discussion, "Policy Issues in Providing Effective Mental Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities," moderated by President Robert A. Scott of Adelphi from 1:30 to 2:30. The panelists include Commissioners from the New York offices of Mental Health, with James L. Stone, C.S.W., Commissioner, New York State Office of Mental Health, Thomas MacGilvray, C.S.W., Director of Division of Community Mental Hygiene Services, Suffolk County, Howard Sovronsky, A.C.S.W., Commissioner, Nassau County Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmentally Disabled, and Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D., Executive Deputy Commissioner for Mental Hygiene, New York City.
Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, was the first institution of higher education for liberal arts and sciences on Long Island. Through its schools and programs -- The College of Arts and Sciences, the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the Honors College, University College/ABLE Program, and the Schools of Business, Education, Nursing, and Social Work -- the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as professional and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls over 7,700 students from 37 states and 60 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a commitment to liberal studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation.
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