Kurt A. Freeman, PhD*

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center. Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1999.

Dr. Freeman joined the faculty at the CDRC in 2002. His clinical and research interests are primarily in areas related to common and severe behavior problems in children and adolescents. Specifically, he is interested behavioral pediatrics which addresses the well child gap between general pediatric care and mental health services (e.g., enuresis, encopresis, medication non-adherence), pediatric sleep and bedtime problems disturbances, parenting/behavioral parent training, functional assessment of severe behavior problems, and behavioral phenotyping of metabolic and genetic disorders.

Dr. Freeman is involved in several ongoing, grant-funded research projects as a collaborating researcher, and directs his own research as well. He has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited books and has made numerous presentations at national conferences. In addition to pursuing his own research, Dr. Freeman serves on the editorial boards of Behavior Modification and Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities. Further, he is on the reviewer panel for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and a regular ad hoc reviewer for several other journals.

Dr. Freeman has served as the director of training for the Division of Psychology since 2005. As such, he oversees the APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship program, the flagship of the division's training endeavors. Further, he provides administrative oversight to the post-doctoral residency and graduate student practicum training programs. He provides direct clinical supervision to interns and post-doctoral fellows seeing patients through the division's outpatient treatment program and inpatient consultation-liaison service. He emphasizes training in behavioral pediatrics for interns and post-doctoral fellows; specifically, he serves as a supervisor for a pre-doctoral minor rotation through the Behavioral Pediatrics Treatment Service and is the lead supervisor for the division's fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics/Pediatric Psychology.

Recent Publications

Freeman, K. A., & Eagle, R., (in press). Single subject design. In J. C. Thomas & M. Hersen (Eds.) Understanding research in clinical and counseling psychology: A textbook 2nd Edition. Makwak, New Jersey: Laurence Ulbaum Associates.

Freeman, K. A., Palermo, T., & Scott, M. (in press). Sleep disorders in children and adolescents. In P. Sturmey & M. Hersen (Eds.) Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology: Volume 1: Child and Adolescent Disorders. Hoboken, NJ Wiley.

Harris, M. A., Freeman, K. A., & Duke, D. (in press). Transitioning from pediatric to adult health care: Dropping off the face of the earth. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.

Smith, K., Freeman, K. A., Neville-Jan, A., Mizokawa, S., & Adams, E. (in press). Cultural considerations in the care of individuals with Spina Bifida. Pediatric Clinics of North America.

Freeman, K. A., & Lim, M. (2010). Single subject research. In J. C. Thomas & M. Hersen (Eds.) Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies, pp 397-423. Secaucus, NJ: Springer.

Friman, P. C., & Freeman, K. A. (2010). Enuresis and encopresis. In J. C. Thomas & M. Hersen (Eds.) Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies, pp. 1372-1401. Secaucus, NJ: Springer.

Harris, M. H., Freeman, K. A., & Beers, M. (2009). Family therapy for adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes: Initial test of clinical effectiveness. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 34, 1097-1107.

Wilson, A., DeCourcey, W., & Freeman, K. A. (2009). The impact of managing school-aged children’s diabetes: The role of child behavior problems and parental discipline strategies. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medial Settings, 16, 216-222.

Freeman, K. A., & DeCourcey, W. (2007). Further analysis of the discriminate validity of the Parenting Scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 29, 169-176.

Freeman, K. A., Gregory, A., Turner, A., Blasco, P., Hogarth, P., & Hayflick, S. (2007). Intellectual and adaptive behavior functioning of patients with Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 417-426.

Freeman, K. A., Walker, M., & Kaufman, J. (2007). Psychometric evaluation of the Questions About Behavioral Function scale with a child sample. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 112, 122-129.

Freeman, K. A. (2006). Treating bedtime resistance with the Bedtime Pass: A systematic replication and component analysis with 3-year-olds. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 39, 423-428.

* designates faculty directly involved in the supervision of interns.

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