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About the Author |
| 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. This program has helped over 1800 children. He also was a researcher, training director and Co-Principal Investigator of the former Training Grant for the UCLA Clinical Research Center for the Study of Childhood Psychosis. 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 1972. |
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Summary
Do you wish your child had more friends? If you feel bad when your child has no one to play with, outraged when other kids tease and pick on her, or helpless when school calls and tells you he has been fighting, Good Friends Are Hard to Find can help. Step by step, parents learn to help their 5 to 12 year olds make friends and solve problems with other kids. This guide also offers concrete help for teasing, bullying and meanness, both for the child who is picked on and for the tormentor. Based on the prestigious UCLA Children’s Social Skills Program, this book teaches clinically tested techniques that really work.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Finding Friends
Part 2: Making Friends
Part 3: Keeping Friends
Part 4: Dealing with Teasing, Bullying, and Meanness
Part 5: Helping You Child Out of Trouble
Closing Thoughts
Suggested Reading
Index
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