Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

• Psychological Assessment, including the Rorschach
• Teaching Rorschach Coding and Inquiry Skills Online
• Writing Psychological Assessment Reports.

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Patient-Therapist Interactions
• Patient-Therapist Matching
• Therapy Outcome Studies
• Evaluation of Clinical Service Delivery Systems
• Recruitment and Retention in Distance-Learning Graduate Schools
• The Rorschach

Professional Memberships:

• American Psychological Association (12)
• Society for Personality Assessment

Honors and Awards:

• 2000: 25 Year Service Plaque, The Fielding Institute.
• 1990: Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1980: Fellow, American Group Psychotherapy Association
• 1958: University of Kansas, Honors in Psychology

Presentations:

• Friedman, W. H. (2003, March). Teaching psychological assessment skills at a distance. Chair, Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Miami, FL.
• Friedman, W. H., & Russo, A. (2003, March). Teaching Rorschach inquiry skills at a distance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Miami, FL.

Professional Experience:

• Doctoral Faculty, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University.

Other Professional Activities:

• 2005-present: Chair, Academic Committee, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA
• 2002-2007: Director, Psychological Assessment Laboratories, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 2002-2004: Member, Student Recruitment & Retention Committee, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 1997-2004: Founding Member, Educational Technologies Committee, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 1994-2002: Certified Health Service Provider, North Carolina.