Title: Chair Person & Professor
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Click on Name for E-mail: Robert Friedman Address: MHC 2312A
Brief Biography Dr. Friedman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Family Studies, one of three academic departments at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida. The Department of Child and Family Studies is a multi-disciplinary department that strives to improve the well-being of families and children through applied research, training and education, evaluation, and dissemination of information.
Dr. Friedman is a clinical psychologist who received his B.A. from Brooklyn College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University. Since 1984 Dr. Friedman has also served as Director of the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health, one of two such centers in the U.S. He is a researcher, author, policy analyst, and consultant on issues such as the development and evaluation of community-based systems of care, prevalence of emotional disorders in children, new developments in service delivery, and the relationship between the mental health system and other systems.
Dr. Friedman is co-author with Beth Stroul of "A System of Care for Children and Youth with Severe Emotional Disturbances," a monograph on systems of care which has been widely used across the country to plan service delivery systems. He is also co-editor of a Paul H. Brookes book series on systems of care, co-editor of several special journals on children's mental health, co-editor of a book entitled, "Advocacy on Behalf of Children with Serious Emotional Problems", and Chair of the Alliance for the Safe, Therapeutic, and Appropriate Use of Residential Treatment.
Dr. Friedman has served on many national committees including the Planning Board for the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, has chaired task forces and review panels for the federal government, and has provided Congressional testimony on several occasions. He served as Principal Author for the Children's Workgroup report of the Florida Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse in 2000, gave expert testimony to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in 2002, and helped author the Children's Sub-Committee report of the Commission. Dr. Friedman is a Fellow of the Division of Children, Youth, and Families of the American Psychological Association, and received the Nicholas Hobbs award from this division in 2005 for contributions to policy and advocacy for children.
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