fristad bio

Dr. Fristad Biography

Dr. Fristad is a 1986 graduate of the University of Kansas clinical psychology program. She completed her clinical child psychology internship at Brown University and is board certified both in clinical psychology and in clinical child and adolescent psychology. She is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Ohio State University, where she has been on faculty since 1986. Dr. Fristad is the Director of Research and Psychological Services in the OSU Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which contains inpatient, day treatment, outpatient and clinical research programs. Dr. Fristad’s area of specialty is childhood mood disorders. She has published over 125 articles and book chapters addressing the assessment and treatment of childhood-onset depression, suicidality and bipolar disorder (manic-depression). Dr. Fristad recently edited the Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescent and has written a book for families entitled Raising a Moody Child: How to Cope with Depression and Bipolar Disorder. Dr. Fristad has served on and chaired many NIMH review committees. She has been a member of the Executive Board for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (APA Division 53), has chaired the Serious Emotional Disturbance committee of the American Psychological Association Task Force for Serious Mental Illness/Serious Emotional Disturbance and now serves on an APA Task Force, Psychotropic Medications & Children. She serves on the Board of Directors for five web-based education and support groups for children and families with mood disorders. Dr. Fristad has been the principal or co-principal investigator on over two dozen federal, state, local grants. Recently, she been awarded a 5-year NIMH grant to investigate the efficacy of Multi-Family Psychoeducation Groups in treating childhood mood disorders, a 2-year grant from the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH) to investigate the efficacy of Individual Family Psychoeducation in treating early-onset bipolar disorder, a one-year grant from ODMH to measure physiologic stress in the caregivers of children with mood disorders, and a 5-year multi-site NIMH grant to determine how children with manic symptoms progress over time.

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