GREGORY FRITZ

M.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, 1971. Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Director of Child and Family Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital. 444-5617.

Rhode Island Hospital

444-5617

Enuresis, asthma, AIDS: psychosomaticillness, obesity and eating disorders, adolescent suicide

Child Psychiatry: Biopsychosocial Studies

Biopsychosocial studies of children with chronic medical illnesses, and their families. Children with cancer, asthma,enuresis, enxopresis, pain syndromes, etc. are being studied in various projects focusing on predictors of adjustment, useful ways of conceptualizing their psychosocial patterns, and perceptual accuracy of symptom reports.

Publications: 

Fritz, G. K., Klein, R.B., and Overholser, J.C. Accuracy of symptom perception in childhood asthma. J. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 11:69-73. 1990.

Fritz, G.K., and Rockney, R.: Plasma levels and efficacy of imipramine in the treatment of enuresis. J. Am. Acad Child & Adol Psychiatry 33:60-64, 1994.

Fritz, G.K., McQuaid, E.L., Spirito, A. & Klein, R.B.: Symptom perception in pediatric asthma: relationship of functional morbidity and psychological factors. J. Amer Acad Child & Adol Psychiatry. 35: 1033-1041, 1996.

Fritz, G.K., Fritsch, S.L. Hagino, O. Somatoform disorders in children and adolescents: a review of the past 10 years. J. Amer. Acad. Child & Adol. Psychiatry 36: 1329-1338, 1997.