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Graduate Student Stephanie Budge Awarded First Charles J. Gelso Psychotherapy Research Grant

Congratulations to Stephanie Budge, who has been awarded the first Charles J. Gelso, Ph. D. Psychotherapy Research Grant. Division 29 created this grant program to provide annual grants (up to $2000) supporting the advancement of research on psychotherapy process or psychotherapy outcome.

Stephanie is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Counseling Psychology. At present, she is a pre-doctoral intern at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities counseling center (UCCS). In April, she successfully defended her dissertation regarding mental health outcomes for transsexual individuals throughout their transitioning process. As the recipient of the Charles Gelso Psychotherapy Research Grant, she will be conducing three separate meta-analyses regarding the efficacy of research trials for personality disorders. The first meta-analysis will be conducted regarding trials that compared evidence-based treatments to treatment-as-usual for personality disorders. The second meta-analysis will determine differences in efficacy for bona-fide treatments for personality disorders. Last, a cost-effectiveness analysis will be conducted on those trials that have compared treatments for personality disorders.

Please see the awards section of the Division 29 website for more information on the grant program and watch for upcoming details of the call for applications for the coming year’s grant awards. Eligibility for the Charles J. Gelso Psychotherapy Research Grant rotates biannually between graduate students/predoctoral interns and doctoral level psychologists/postdoctoral fellows. In 2011, doctoral level psychologists and postdoctoral fellows will be eligible.