Phyllis Solomon, Ph.D.
- Member, MPH Program Steering Committee
- Professor, Social Work Mental Health Research Center
- Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Solomon has a M.A. in sociology and Ph.D. in social welfare, both from Case Western Reserve University. She has over 30 years of research, community planning, and administrative experience. She has worked in a state psychiatric system and in a community research and planning agency where she conducted research, evaluations, and designed service interventions. Much of her planning experience focused on the development of mental health programs, such as programs for the homeless population with severe mental illness. Dr. Solomon has served on numerous federal research and service review panels, for NIMH, NIDA, SAMHSA, and NIDRR, and on a number of journal editorial boards. She has extensively published and presented on services and interventions for adults with serious mental illness and their families. She has co-edited two books on psychiatric rehabilitation, Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Practice and New Developments in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and co-authored Community Services to Discharged Psychiatric Patients. Dr. Solomon’s latest book, The Research Process in the Human Services: Behind the Scenes (Eds. L. Alexander and P. Solomon) is available.
She is the former Director of a NIMH-funded Social Work Research Development Center at the School of Social Work. In 1997, her article with others on the results of a family education intervention which appeared in Schizophrenia Bulletin received first place award by the Society for Social Work and Research. Dr. Solomon was the 1999 recipient of the Armin Loeb Award from International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services for her research in psychosocial rehabilitation; and the 2002 recipient of the Outstanding Non-Psychiatrist Award from the American Association of Community Psychiatrist for her extraordinary contributions to community mental health. In 2005 she received the Knee/Wittman Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Mental Health Policy and Practice from the National Association of Social Work foundation.
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