Email Address:
ffrankel@mednet.ucla.edu
Personal Email Address:
ffrankel@ucla.edu
Work Email Address:
ffrankel@mednet.ucla.edu
Work Phone Number:
310-825-0776
Mailing Address:
300 Medical Plaza
Ste 1402
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Affiliations |
Director, Parenting and Children's Friendship Program |
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) |
Professor In-Residence, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior |
Fred Frankel, Ph.D., ABPP is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Since 1982, Dr. Frankel has been the Director of the UCLA Parent Training and Children's Friendship Programs. His current research interests are in extending his studies of the effectiveness of Children's Friendship Training to community settings with different populations, including high-functioning autism (UCLA CART), childhood obesity, ADHD and fetal alcohol syndrome. Dr. Frankel is the Principal Investigator on the current CART project, "Parent-Assisted Friendship Training in Autism," which focuses on the friendships of high-functioning children with autism who are included in typical elementary school classrooms from grades two to five. This study is based upon the Dr. Frankel's published treatment manual, Children's Friendship Training (2002). Dr. Frankel received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Irvine in 1971 and joined the UCLA faculty in 1973.