Paul Frick

Paul Joseph Frick is an American psychologist and the Roy Crumpler Memorial Chair in psychology at Louisiana State University (LSU), as well as a professor at the Learning Sciences Institute of Australia at Australian Catholic University. He is known for his research on psychopathy and antisocial behavior in children, which he has been studying for over twenty years.[1][2]

Paul J. Frick
NationalityAmerican
EducationLouisiana State University
University of Georgia
Known forResearch on psychopathy
Awards2015 Robert D. Hare Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy
Scientific career
FieldsClinical psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of New Orleans
Louisiana State University
ThesisPatterns of parent and family characteristics associated with oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder in boys (1990)
Doctoral advisorBenjamin Lahey

Biography

Frick was educated at Louisiana State University and the University of Georgia. While still training to become a family therapist, he changed his mind after deciding that treatments for child aggression were not effective enough, so instead he chose to study the causes of such behavior.[3] Before joining the faculty of LSU in 2015, he was a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at the University of New Orleans, where he was chair of the psychology department from 2007 to 2015. He was the president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy from 2009 to 2011, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology from 2007 to 2011. Since 2018, he has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.[4][5] In 2015, he received the Robert D. Hare Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.[2]

References
  1. Kahn, Jennifer (2012-05-11). "Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  2. Lipinski, Jed (2015-01-16). "UNO psychologist wins lifetime achievement award for youth research". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  3. Walker, Dave (2013-02-19). "UNO professor Paul Frick to appear on special 'After Newtown' edition of 'NOVA'". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  4. "Paul Frick CV" (PDF).
  5. "Professor Paul J. Frick". Learning Sciences Institute Australia. Retrieved 2018-05-25.


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