Bio

Jason S. Frydman, PhD, RDT/BCT, NCSP is a state and nationally certified school psychologist, licensed psychologist, and registered drama therapist/board certified trainer. Dr. Frydman earned a BFA in English/Theatre (Syracuse), MA in Drama Therapy (NYU), post-graduate certificate from the Institute for the Arts in Psychotherapy, PhD in School Psychology (Fordham), and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Tulane University. Prior to joining NC State, Dr. Frydman was core faculty at Lesley University in the psychology department and the masters/doctoral expressive therapies program.

Dr. Frydman’s research interests extend to school mental health and beyond, including the role of the arts in school-based mental health intervention, adolescent mental health literacy promotion, summer camp mental health, and trauma-informed programming in schools,. He is the co-editor of Fostering Mental Health Literacy through Adolescent Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), recently contracted for its second edition. In addition, Dr. Frydman serves on the editorial board of School Psychology Review (NASP) and is the associate editor of general topics for Translational Issues in Psychological Science (APA). He is the recipient of the 2023 North American Drama Therapy Association’s Research Award.

Dr. Frydman utilizes both quantitative and qualitative approaches, with an interest in expanding the latter within school-based research.