Department of Psychiatry

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, AND HONORS

Positions and Employment:

Clinical Internship, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 1984-1985

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC), Denver, Colorado, 1985-1989

Licensed Psychologist, Colorado State Board of Examiners, #1207

Instructor, Pediatric Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, UCSM, 1988-1989

Assistant Faculty Member, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO, 1989-1993

Co-Director, Infant Psychiatry Clinic, UCSM, 1993-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine (UCSM), Denver, CO, 1993-2005

Program Director, Outpatient Pediatric Behavioral Health Clinic, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1993-1999

Associate Director, Kempe Center Therapeutic Preschool, UCSM, 1995-2005

Associate Director, The Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health, UCSM, 1996-2006

Associate Faculty Member, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO, 1998-1999

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine (UCSM), Denver, CO, 2005-present

Director, Kempe Center Therapeutic Preschool, UCSM, 2005-present

Director, The Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health, UCSM, 2006-present

Other Experience and Professional Memberships:

American Psychological Association, 1989-1993

International Society for Infant Studies, 1989-1999

Member, Executive Committee, Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, UCSM, 1991-1997

Member, Diagnostic Classification Task Force, Zero To Three/National Center for Infant, Toddlers and Families, 1995-present

Reviewer, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2000-present

Member, BLOOM/Harris/JFK Partnership, Train the Trainers Initiative, UCHSC, 2004-present

Reviewer, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004-preseent

Member, Capacity Building Committee for Early Childhood Mental Health, JFK/University of Colorado-Denver (UCD) Collaboration, Denver, CO, 2004-2008

Consulting Editor, Infant Mental Health Journal, 2005-present

National Trainer, DC0-3 R Diagnostic Classification System, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, 2006-present

Reviewer, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2006-present

World Association for Infant Mental Health, 2007-present

Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health, 2008-present

Member, Advisory Board for the Leadership Institute, Health Connect One, Chicago, 2008-present 

Honors:

Harris Program Clinical Case Conference

Training workshops on the Diagnostic Classificiation System of Infants and Young Children (DC: 0-3R)

Clinical and program consultation to early childhood settings and mental health agencies

Clinical Activities:

Supervisor, Psychiatry Residents, Psychology Interns, Postdoctoral Fellows, Kempe Therapeutic Preschool, UCHSC, 1995-present

Supervisor, Post-graduate fellows, The Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health, UCSM, 1996-present

Clinic Attending, Infant Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, University of Colorado Hospital, 2002-present

SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS

Selected Publications:

Frankel, K.A., & Harmon R.J. (1996). Depressed mothers: They don't always look as bad as they feel. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35 (3), 289-298.

Harmon, R.J., & Frankel, K.A. (1997). Growth and development of an infant mental health program: An integrated perspective. Infant Mental Health Journal, 18(2), 126-134.

Frankel, K.A., & Wamboldt, M.Z. (1998). Child chronic illness and maternal mental health--Why should we care? Journal of Asthma, 35 (8), 621-630.

Frankel, K.A., Boestch, E., & Harmon, R.J. (2000). Elevated picture-completion scores:  A possible indicator of hypervigilance in maltreated preschoolers. Child Abuse & Neglect, 24 (1), 63-70.

Harmon, R.J., Plummer, N.S., & Frankel, K.A. (2000). Perinatal loss: Parental grieving, family impact, and intervention services. In J.D. Osofsky & H.E. Fitzgerald (eds.), WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Vol. 4 (pp. 327-368). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Frankel, K.A., & Harmon, R.J. (2000). Advanced training in infant mental health: A multi-disciplinary perspective. In J.D. Osofsky & H.E. Fitzgerald (eds.), WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Vol. 2 (pp. 313-333). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Frankel, K.A., Bair, K. & Walker, P. (2000). Learning together.  Zero To Three Bulletin, 20 (6), 42-43.

Frankel, K.A., Boyum, L.A., & Harmon, R.J. (2004). Diagnoses and presenting symptoms in an Infant Psychiatry Clinic: Comparison of two diagnostic systems. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43(5), 578-587.

Bromberg, S. & Frankel, K.A. (in 2009). Perinatal Support in Substance Abuse: The Requirements of Relationship and Reflection, Zero to Three Bulletin,

Bromberg, S., Backman, T., Krow, J. & Frankel, K.A. (2009).  The Haven Mother’s House Modified Therapeutic Community: Meeting the gap in infant mental health services for pregnant and parenting mothers with drug addiction. Infant Mental Health Journal.

Backman, T., Bromberg, S. Wolfe, D., & Frankel, K.A. (under review). Improved birth outcomes: Implementation of a community-based doula model with drug-exposed infants.

CURRENT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:

Contracts for training and program consultation/clinical supervision with Early Head Start and other early childhood mental health agencies locally and state-wide, 1997-present

Recipient, Clinical Training Grant, The Harris Foundation, "The Irving Harris Training Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health" (renewal), 2007-2011