Karen B. Froming, PhD, ABPP-ABCN
Position:
Clinical Supervisor, Gronowski Center
Contact Information:
kfroming@paloaltou.eduOther Positions:
Adjunct Clinical Faculty
Programs:
Gronowski Clinic
Education:
PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Florida (1988)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuropsychology, Gainesville Veterans Administration and Shands Teaching Hospitals (1989)
Biography:
Karen Bronk Froming, PhD, ABPP-ABCN, is a board certified neuropsychologist, Adjunct Faculty at Palo Alto University and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco where she is responsible for teaching clinical interviewing, differential diagnosis, case conceptualization, neuropsychological assessment, neuropsychology of trauma, and brief therapy. She supervises both Fellows in Clinical Psychology and Residents in Psychiatry.
Dr. Froming has developed the Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS), a computerized test of emotional process with a grant from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Her collaborators were Drs. Sarah Schaffer, Paul Ekman and C. Michael Levy.
Dr. Froming’s ongoing commitment is to capacity building in post-genocide Rwanda. She has made many trips there studying the circumstances of the genocide and civil war as part of a longstanding interest in genocide and its precursors; and in performing and teaching self-help trauma symptom reduction techniques at the National University of Rwanda. She, Dr. William Froming, and their team are developing practical training modules for developing partnership with other educational institutions and non-profits in Rwanda.
Areas of Interest:
Neuropsychology of Trauma and Emotion Processing
Selected Publications:
Weiner, S. J. and Froming, K. B. (2009) Comprehensive Affect Testing System-Abbreviated: Effects of Age on Performance. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Vol. 24, 89-104.
Gyurjyan, G., Froming, W. J., and Froming, K. B. (2007). Differentiation of Asperger’s Syndrome and Age/IQ matched controls on the Comprehensive Affect Testing System.
Froming, K. B., Weiner, S. G., Gregory, A. L., Levy, C. M., and Ekman, P. (2006). The Comprehensive Affect Testing System: An Emotion Processing System-Clinical version. Psychology Software Inc.
Schaffer, S. G., Froming, K. B., & Gregory, A. (2006). A Manual for the Comprehensive Affect Testing System, Psychology Software, Inc.
Froming, W. J. and Bronk Froming, K. (2007). Comparative Genocide and Social Psychology. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Genocide. Mellen Publishing, Chicago.
Bronk Froming, K., Ekman, P., and Levy, C.M. (2001). The Comprehensive Affect Testing System: An Emotion Processing System. Psychology Software Inc.
Bronk Froming, K. & Gregory, A., (2002). A Manual for the Comprehensive Affect Testing System, Psychology Software, Inc.
Bronk Froming, K. and Froming, W.J. A comparison of three current personality psychology texts. Contemporary Psychology, 2000.
Bronk Froming, K. Hemispheric processing of emotional valences. Dissertation Abstracts, 1988