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LATEST CALL FOR RESEARCH AWARD! The Distinguished Publication of Psychotherapy Research Award for 2012

 

In consultation with the Division 29 Board of Directors, the Division 29 Research Committee is seeking nominations for The Distinguished Publication of Psychotherapy Research Award. This award recognizes the best empirical (i.e., data-based) published peer reviewed article on psychotherapy in the preceding calendar year. Articles appearing in any journal (i.e., they need not have appeared in the Division’s journal) are eligible for this award.

 

We ask members of the Division to nominate articles for consideration by April 1. Nominations should include the complete citation for the article, and should be emailed to the Chair of the Research Committee, Dr. Michael Constantino, mconstantino@psych.umass.edu

 

A selection committee appointed by the Chair of the Research Committee, in consultation with the President of the Division, will evaluate all nominated articles, and will make a recommendation to the Division’s Board of Directors by May 1. Upon approval by the Board, the author(s) of the winning article will be notified so that they may be recognized and receive the award at the upcoming APA Convention. Accompanying this award is a plaque.

 

All methods of research will be equally valued (experimental, quasi-experimental, qualitative, descriptive/correlational, survey). Current members of the Research Committee and the Selection Committee will not be eligible for the award, so no articles by members of the Research Committee will be considered. Also, committee members will recuse themselves from voting on articles by current or former students, as well as collaborators. Self-nominations are accepted.  

 

The criteria for the award appear below.

 

• the rationale for the study and theoretical soundness
• the methods
• the analyses
• the explanation of the results
• the contribution to new knowledge about psychotherapy (e.g., the work is innovative, creative, or integrative; the work advances existing research in a meaningful way); greater weight will be given to novel/creative element than to methodological/statistical rigor
• relevance to psychotherapy practice.

 

 

The Distinguished Publication of Psychotherapy Research Award is accompanied by a $500 cash award sponsored by Wiley and Sons.