Awards

 

AWARD CRITERIA & PROCESS

The Society of Clinical Psychology and APF encourage applications from individuals who represent diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation.

No voting member of the Division 12 Board of Directors will be eligible to receive awards from the Division while serving their term.

Candidates can be simultaneously considered for multiple awards, although a psychologist may receive only one Division 12 award in any given year.

Nominations must include a CV and at least one letter of endorsement. Self-nominations are permitted and should include one external endorsement.

Please submit nomination materials to:

Awards Committee Chair
APA Division 12
PO Box 1082
Niwot, CO 80544-1082

Deadline: November 1 Inquiries should be directed to the Division 12 Central Office at 303-652-3126 or lynnadmin@comcast.net

Senior Awards

 

Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology
 Honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to psychology throughout their careers.
 
Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology
 Honors psychologists who have made distinguished advances in psychology leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems and honors psychologists who have made outstanding contributions to the general profession of clinical psychology.
 
Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology
Honors psychologists who have made remarkable contributions to the understanding of human diversity and whose contributions have significant promise for bettering the human condition, overcoming prejudice, and enhancing the quality of life for humankind. 
 
Toy Caldwell-Colbert Award for Distinguished Educator in Clinical Psychology
Honors psychologists who display excellence in mentoring clinical psychology graduate students, interns, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. It will recognize those individuals who have been outstanding in supporting, encouraging and promoting education and training, professional and personal development, and career guidance to junior colleagues. 
 
MID CAREER AWARD
 
American Psychological Foundation Theodore Millon Award
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Theodore Millon, Ph.D. Award will be conferred annually (from 2008 through 2012) to an outstanding mid-career psychologist engaged in advancing the science of personality psychology including the areas of personology, personality theory, personality disorders, and personality measurement. A review panel appointed by APA Division 12 will select the recipient upon approval of the APF Trustees.  The recipient will receive $1,000 and a plaque. Nominees should be no less than 8 years and no more than 20 years post doctoral degree. 
 
 
 
EARLY CAREER AWARDS
 
David Shakow Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology
Given for contributions to the science clinical psychology by a person who has received the doctorate within the past seven years and who has made noteworthy contributions both to science and to practice. Up to $500 for travel to the APA Convention is awarded.
 
Theodore Blau Early Career Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology (given jointly with APF)
Honors a clinical psychologist for professional accomplishments in clinical psychology. Accomplishments may include promoting the practice of clinical psychology through professional service; innovation in service delivery; novel application of applied research methodologies to professional practice; positive impact on health delivery systems; development of creative educational programs for practice; or other novel or creative activities advancing the service of the profession. Nominees should be no more than seven years post doctoral degree. Amount of the award is $5000
 
Samuel M. Turner Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology
This award will be conferred annually to an early career psychologist who has made exemplary contributions to diversity within the field. Such contributions can include research, service, practice, training, or any combination thereof. Nominees should be no mare than seven years post doctoral degree.
 
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
 
Recipients of the Division 12 graduate student awards must be matriculated doctoral students in clinical psychology (including pre-doctoral interns) who are student affiliates of Division 12. Nominations should include a copy of nominee’s curriculum vitae and two letters of support detailing the nominee’s service contributions to the profession and community.   Recipients of the awards receive a plaque, a $200 honorarium contributed jointly by Division 12 and Journal of Clinical Psychology, and a complementary two-year subscription to JCLP & JCLP: In Session. The Division 12 Education & Training Committee will determine the award recipients. 
 
 Distinguished Student Research Award in Clinical Psychology
Honors a graduate student in clinical psychology who has made exemplary theoretical or empirical contributions to research in clinical psychology Clinical research contributions can include quantity, quality, contribution to diversity, and/or innovations in research. 
 
Distinguished Student Practice Award in Clinical Psychology
Honors a graduate student in clinical psychology who has made outstanding clinical practice contributions to the profession. Clinical practice contributions can include breadth and/or depth of practice activities, innovations in service delivery, contribution to diversity, and/or other meritorious contributions.
 
Distinguished Student Service Award in Clinical Psychology
Honors a graduate student in clinical psychology who has made outstanding service contributions to the profession and community. Service contribution can include development of creative educational programs or other novel activities in the advancement of service, contributions to diversity, working to increase funding for agencies, volunteer time, working on legislation regarding mental health, general mental health advocacy; as initiating outreach to under served communities or substantive involvement in efforts to do such outreach. 

 

The Division 12 Award Winners for 2008 are as follows:

C. R. Snyder, Ph.D. for distinguished scientific contributions to clinical psychology

The Florence Halpern Award presented to Bruce Bongar, Ph.D. for distinguished professional contributions to clinical psychology

The David Shakow Early Career Award presented to Samuel Thomas Gontkovsky, Psy.D. for outstanding early career contributions to the science and practice of clinical psychology

The Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award presented to Rebecca Jackson, Ph.D. for outstanding early career contributions to the profession of clinical psychology

The Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity presented to Lillian Comas-Diaz, Ph.D. for outstanding contributions to diversity in the profession of clinical psychology

The Samuel M. Turner Clinical Research Award presented to Michael G. Perri, Ph.D. for distinguished contributions in applied clinical research

The Toy Caldwell-Colbert Outstanding Clinical Educator Award presented to Leonard Handler, Ph.D. for excellence in mentoring clinical psychology graduate students, interns, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty

The Contributions to Interventions and/or Assessment for Communities of Color in Clinical Psychology Award presented to Guillermo Bernal, Ph.D. for contributions to the development and advancement of research or practice to communities of color

The Lifetime Award for Distinguished Contribution to Diversity in Clinical Psychology Science and Practice (Public Interest) presented to Cheryl Anne Boyce, Ph.D. for outstanding contributions in the promotion of diversity in clinical psychology

The American Psychological Foundation Theodore Millon, Ph.D. Award presented to Mark F. Lenzenweger, Ph.D. for outstanding mid-career contributions to personality psychology

Distinguished Student Service in Clinical Psychology: Melissa Noya

Distinguished Student Practice in Clinical Psychology: Jessica Ruiz

Distinguished Student Research in Clinical Psychology: Hanjoo Lee

List of past award winners

 

 

DISTINGUISHED AWARDS for contributions to the SCIENCE AND PROFESSION OF CLINCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 

YEAR                    SCIENCE                                                             PROFESSIONAL
(named Florence Halpern in 2000)
1958                       Frederic L. Wells                                                  John G. Darley
1959                       Starke R. Hathaway                                           David Shakow
1960                       David Rappaport                                                                David Wechsler
1961                       Samuel J. Beck                                                    Henry A. Murray
1962                       Stanley D. Porteus                                               Carl R. Rogers
1963                       Jean Walker McFarlane                                     Edgar A. Doll
1964                       Norman A. Cameron                                          Robert White
1965                       George A. Kelly                                                    Bruno Klopfer
1966                       Joseph Zubin                                                        Nicholas Hobbs
1967                       Paul E. Meehl                                                       William A. Hunt
1968                       Julian B. Rotter                                                    Jerry W. Carter
1969                       Noble H. Kelly                                     
1970                       John E. Bell                                                           Nevitt Sanford
1971                       Silvan S. Tomkins                                               Rollo R. May
1972                       Anne Roe                                                              E. Lowell Kelly
1973                       J. McVicker Hunt                                                                Florence C. Halpern
1974                       Robert Holt                                                           Evelyn Hooker
1975                       O. Hobart Mowrer                                               Gardner Lindsey
1976                       Sol L. Garfield                                                      Eliot H. Rodnick
1977                       Norman Farberow                                               Edwin S. Shneidman
1978                       Sheldon Korchin                                                  Bernard Kalinkowitz
                                Benjamin Wolman                                             Erich Fromm
1979                       Bruno Bettelheim                                                                Erik Erikson
1980                       Molly Harrower                                                   Karen Machover
1981                       Hans Strupp                                                         Carl N. Zimet
1982                       Janet T. Spence                                                    Alan O. Ross
1983                       Joseph D. Matarazzo                                          Jack G. Wiggins
1984                       Mary D.S. Ainsworth                                          Louis D. Cohen
1985                       Harold L. Raush                                                  Saul Rosenzweig
1986                       Lester Luborsky                                                   Jeanne Phillips
1987                       Oscar A. Parsons                                                  Robert A. Harper
                                Morris Parloff                                                       Robert D. Weitz
1988                       Norman Garmezy                                                               Ronald E. Fox
1989                       Charles D. Spielberger                                         Patrick H. DeLeon
1990                       Herman Feifel                                                      Rogers H. Wright
1991                       No Awards Granted                                            No Awards Granted
1992                       Alan E. Kazdin                                                     Donald K. Routh
1993                       K. Daniel O’Leary                                               Robert J. Resnick
1994                       G. Terence Wilson                                               Kenneth S. Pope
1995                       Herbert C. Quay                                                  Allan G. Barclay
1996                       Edna B. Foa                                                         Diane J. Willis
1997                       Lizette Peterson                                                   Arnold Lazarus
1998                       Marvin R. Goldfried                                            Carolyn S. Schroeder
1999                       Gordon Paul                                                         Jerome Resnick
2000                       David H. Barlow                                                  Dianne L. Chambless
2001                       Marsha Linehan                                                  Edward Zigler
2002                       Mark Sobell                                                          George Stricker
2003                       Lauren B. Alloy, Lyn Y. Abramson Gerald P. Koocher
2004                       Sidney J. Blatt                                                      Lynn P. Rehm
2005                       Martin E.P. Seligman                                          W. Edward Craighead
2006                       Philip C. Kendall                                                  Beverly Greene
2007                       Larry E. Beutler                                                   Richard Rogers
2008                       C. R. Snyder                                                         Bruce Bongar
2009                       G. Alan Marlatt                                                    Nadine J. Kaslow
 
 
STANLEY SUE AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS TO DIVERSITY IN
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
2003       Stanley Sue
2004       A. Toy Caldwell-Colbert
2005       Beverly Greene
2006      Gordon C. Nagayama Hall
2007       John D. Robinson               
2008       Lillian Comas-Diaz
2009       Frederick Leong
                                                               
TOY CALDWELL-COLBERT AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR IN
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
 
2008       Leonard Handler
2009       Eric Bermann
 
 
MID-CAREER AWARD
 
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION THEODORE MILLON AWARD
 
2004      Drew I. Westen
2005      Paul R. Duberstein & Robert F. Bornstein
2006      Robert Krueger
2007       Aaron L. Pincus
2008       Mark F. Lenzenweger
2009       Mark A. Blais
 
 
EARLY CAREER AWARDS
 
DAVID SHAKOW EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
 
1994       Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
1995       Judy Garber
1996       Thomas N. Bradbury
1997       Thomas Joiner
1998       Scott O. Lilienfeld
1999       Patricia Arian
2000       Sheila R. Woody
2001       Martin Antony
2002       Louis Castonguay                                                                                                                              
2003             Michael Addis   
2004       Jonathan S. Abramowitz
2005       Kelly L. Klump
2006      Julie Loebach Wetherell
2007       Michael J. Zvonlensky
2008       Samuel Thomas Gontkovsky
2009       Matthew K. Nock
 
THEODORE BLAU EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY  
 
1998       Elizabeth Todd Bazemore
1999       Juan Carlos Gonzalez
2000       Phillippe Cunningham
2001       Stephen Ilardi
2002       Michael Goldber      
2003       Julia Kasl-Godley
2004       Mitchell Prinstein
2005       Martin M. Antony
2006      W. Dean Klinkenberg
2007       Melissa C. Kuhajda
2008       Rebecca Jackson
2009       Peter Norton
 
SAMUEL M. TURNER CLINICAL RESEARCH AWARD
2006      Michelle G. Newman
2007       Deborah Beidel
2008       Michael G. Perri
2009       Andrew Christensen
 
                                                               
SAMUEL M. TURNER EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS
TO DIVERSITY IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
 
 
 
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
 
DISTINGUISHED STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
 
2004      Bunmi Olatunji
2005      Sona Dimidjian & LaRicka R. Wingate
2006      Michele A. Schottenbauer
2007       Martin Sellbom & Amit Bernstein
2008       Han Joo Lee
2009      Randy Auerbach
 
DISTINGUISHED STUDENT PRACTICE AWARD IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
 
2004        Carrie Spindel
2005        Kelly C. Cukrowicz
2006         Kathryn H. Gordon
2007         Julia D. Buckner
2008         Jessica Ruiz
2009         None given
 
DISTINGUISHED STUDENT SERVICE AWARD IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
 
2004       Jessica Foley
2005       Ignacio David Acevedo-Polakovich
2006       Jessica Tartaro
2007       Brian J. Hall
2008       Melissa Noya
2009       Malique Carr
 
OTHER AWARDS
 
1983       Stanley F. Schneider           Unique Leadership in Furthering the Training of Clinical Psychologists
1988       Frank J. Sullivan                  Outstanding Public Service to Clinical Psychology
1994       Jonathan Kellerman           APA Division 12 Media Award
1996       Hans J. Eysneck                  Special Centennial Award (for outstanding contributions to field)
1996       Paul E. Meehl                       Special Centennial Award (for outstanding contributions to field)
2008       Guillermo Bernal                 Contributions to Communities of Color in Clinical Psychology
2008       Cheryl Anne Boyce             Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology
2009       Lorraine Gutierrez               Contributions to Communities of Color in Clinical Psychology
2009       Laura S. Brown                    Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology
 
 
 

 

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2008
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SCIENCE

Frederic L. Wells 
Starke R. Hathaway 
David Rappaport 
Samuel J. Beck 
Stanley D. Porteus 
Jean Walker McFarlane 
Norman A. Cameron 
George A. Kelly 
Joseph Zubin 
Paul E. Meehl 
Julian B. Rotter 
Noble H. Kelly 
John E. Bell 
Silvan S. Tomkins 
Anne Roe 
J. McVicker Hunt 
Robert Holt 
O. Hobart Mowrer 
Sol L. Garfield 
Norman Farberow 
Sheldon Korchin 
Benjamin Wolman 
Bruno Bettelheim 
Molly Harrower 
Hans Strupp 
Janet T. Spence 
Joseph D. Matarazzo 
Mary D.S. Ainsworth 
Harold L. Raush 
Lester Luborsky 
Oscar A. Parsons 
Morris Parloff 
Norman Garmezy 
Charles D. Spielberger 
Herman Feifel 
No Awards Granted 
Alan E. Kazdin 
K. Daniel O'Leary 
G. Terence Wilson 
Herbert C. Quay 
Edna B. Foa 
Lizette Peterson 
Marvin R. Goldfried 
Gordon Paul 
David H. Barlow 
Marsha Linehan 
Mark Sobell 
Lauren B. Alloy, Lyn Y. Abramson
Sidney J. Blatt 
Martin E.P. Seligman 
Philip C. Kendall 
Larry E. Beutler 
C. R. Snyder 
G. Alan Marlatt 

PROFESSIONAL
(named Florence Halpern in 2000)
John G. Darley 
David Shakow 
David Wechsler 
Henry A. Murray 
Carl R. Rogers 
Edgar A. Doll 
Robert White 
Bruno Klopfer 
Nicholas Hobbs 
William A. Hunt 
Jerry W. Carter 

Nevitt Sanford 
Rollo R. May 
E. Lowell Kelly 
Florence C. Halpern 
Evelyn Hooker 
Gardner Lindsey 
Eliot H. Rodnick 
Edwin S. Shneidman 
Bernard Kalinkowitz 
Erich Fromm 
Erik Erikson 
Karen Machover 
Carl N. Zimet 
Alan O. Ross 
Jack G. Wiggins 
Louis D. Cohen 
Saul Rosenzweig 
Jeanne Phillips 
Robert A. Harper 
Robert D. Weitz 
Ronald E. Fox 
Patrick H. DeLeon 
Rogers H. Wright 
No Awards Granted 
Donald K. Routh 
Robert J. Resnick 
Kenneth S. Pope 
Allan G. Barclay 
Diane J. Willis 
Arnold Lazarus 
Carolyn S. Schroeder
Jerome Resnick 
Dianne L. Chambless 
Edward Zigler 
George Stricker 
Gerald P. Koocher 
Lynn P. Rehm 
W. Edward Craighead 
Beverly Greene 
Richard Rogers 
Bruce Bongar
Nadine J. Kaslow
 


SPECIAL AWARDS

STANLEY SUE AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS TO DIVERSITY IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

2003        Stanley Sue 
2004        A. Toy Caldwell-Colbert 
2005        Beverly Greene 
2006        Gordon C. Nagayama Hall 
2007        John D. Robinson 
2008        Lillian Comas-Diaz 
2009        Frederick Leong

TOY CALDWELL-COLBERT AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

2008        Leonard Handler
2009        Eric Bermann

MID-CAREER AWARD 

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION THEODORE MILLON AWARD

2004        Drew I. Westen
2005        Paul R. Duberstein & Robert F. Bornstein
2006        Robert Krueger
2007        Aaron L. Pincus
2008        Mark F. Lenzenweger
2009        Mark A. Blais

EARLY CAREER AWARDS

DAVID SHAKOW EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

1994        Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
1995        Judy Garber
1996        Thomas N. Bradbury
1997        Thomas Joiner
1998        Scott O. Lilienfeld
1999        Patricia Arian
2000        Sheila R. Woody
2001        Martin Antony
2002        Louis Castonguay
2003        Michael Addis 
2004        Jonathan S. Abramowitz 
2005        Kelly L. Klump 
2006        Julie Loebach Wetherell 
2007        Michael J. Zvonlensky 
2008        Samuel Thomas Gontkovsky 
2009        Matthew K. Nock

THEODORE BLAU EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

1998        Elizabeth Todd Bazemore
1999        Juan Carlos Gonzalez 
2000        Phillippe Cunningham 
2001        Stephen Ilardi 
2002        Michael Goldber 
2003        Julia Kasl-Godley 
2004        Mitchell Prinstein 
2005        Martin M. Antony 
2006        W. Dean Klinkenberg 
2007        Melissa C. Kuhajda 
2008        Rebecca Jackson 
2009        Peter Norton

SAMUEL M. TURNER EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS TO DIVERSITY IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

2006        Michelle G. Newman 
2007        Deborah Beidel
2008        Michael G. Perri 
2009        Andrew Christensen

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS 

DISTINGUISHED STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

2004        Bunmi Olatunji 
2005        Sona Dimidjian & LaRicka R. Wingate 
2006        Michele A. Schottenbauer 
2007        Martin Sellbom & Amit Bernstein 
2008        Han Joo Lee

DISTINGUISHED STUDENT PRACTICE AWARD IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

2004        Carrie Spindel
2005        Kelly C. Cukrowicz 
2006        Kathryn H. Gordon 
2007        Julia D. Buckner 
2008        Jessica Ruiz

DISTINGUISHED STUDENT SERVICE AWARD IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

2004        Jessica Foley 
2005        Ignacio David Acevedo-Polakovich 
2006        Jessica Tartaro 
2007        Brian J. Hall 
2008        Melissa Noya

OTHER AWARDS

1983        Stanley F. Schneider -- Unique Leadership in Furthering the Training of Clinical Psychologists 
1988        Frank J. Sullivan -- Outstanding Public Service to Clinical Psychology 
1994        Jonathan Kellerman -- APA Division 12 Media Award 
1996        Hans J. Eysneck -- Special Centennial Award (for outstanding contributions to field) 
1996        Paul E. Meehl -- Special Centennial Award (for outstanding contributions to field) 
2008        Guillermo Bernal -- Contributions to Communities of Color in Clinical Psychology 
2008        Cheryl Anne Boyce -- Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology 
2009        Lorraine Gutierrez -- Contributions to Communities of Color in Clinical Psychology 
2009        Laura S. Brown -- Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology