Patrick C. Friman biography

Patrick C. Friman's Brief Biography

Dr. Patrick C. Friman, a clinical psychologist, is currently the Director of Girl's and Boys' Town Outpatient Behavioral Pediatrics and Family Services. He is the former Director of Clinical Training and Associate Chairman of Psychology at the University of Nevada at Reno. Other previous appointments include faculty positions at the Universities of Nebraska and Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Pediatrics and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Behavioral Biology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and completed his internship and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical School. He has published more than 130 scientific articles and chapters involving behavioral pediatrics and behavior disorders of childhood. Generally, Dr. Friman's research addresses the well- child gap between pediatrics and clinical psychology. The gap includes behavior problems that bedevil parents, are outside the core curriculum used to train pediatricians, and yet are not sufficiently serious to warrant a psychopathological interpretation. Examples include enuresis, encopresis, bedtime problems, common fears and routine habits. Dr. Friman is the Book Review editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and was an Associate Editor for that journal from 1993-1996. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of seven scientific journals, and has been an ad hoc scientific reviewer for more than 20 other scientific journals From May 1998 through 1999 he served as the Vice President of the Society of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and continues on as one of its board members. He currently serves on the finance committee for the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, the Division 54 Committee on Science and Practice, and the Professional Affairs Committee of the Association for Behavior Analysis. He is a fellow in Divisions 25 (behavior analysis) 37 (Child, Youth, and Family Services) and 54 (pediatric psychology) of the American Psychological Association.