Rhoda Frankel is Assistant Professor of Clinical Social Work and an outpatient psychotherapist in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry,College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For over 25 years at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute and the University of Illinois she has specialized in Geriatric Psychiatry as a clinician,researcher and educator. She has presented lectures, grand rounds,symposiums,workshops and new research on mental health and aging at national and international meetings.

Representative Publications

Gierl B,Frankel R, and Borden W.Geriatric Psychiatry. In Flaherty J, Channon R, and Davis J (eds.) Psychiatry:Diagnosis and Therapy,Appleton and Lange, New York,N.Y. 1988. 2nd ed.,1993

Lazarus L,Groves L, Gutmann D, Ripeckyi,A, Frankel R, Newton N, Grunes J, and Havasy-Galloway S. Brief Psychotherapy with the Elderly: A study of process and outcome. In Sadavoy J and Leszcz M (eds.) Treating the Elderly with Psychotherapy, International Universities Press Inc., New York, N.Y. 1987

Lesser j, Lazarus L, Frankel R, and Havasy-Galloway S. Reminiscence Group Therapy with Psychotic Geriatric Inpatients. In The Gerontologist 21:291-296, 1981. Reprinted in Tobin S (ed), Current Gerontology: Long-term Care, Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, 1982