Career/Lifetime Achievement
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have made significant contributions over a number of years to cognitive and/or behavior therapy. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Clinician Award and the Outstanding Education/Training Award)

Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Clinical Activities
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have provided significant contributions to clinical work in cognitive and/or behavioral modalities. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Researcher Award and the Outstanding Education/Training Award)

Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Educational/Training Activities
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have provided significant contributions toward educating and training behavior therapists. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Clinician Award and the Outstanding Researcher Award)

Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Research Activities
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have provided significant contributions to the literature advancing our knowledge of behavior therapy. (This award alternates with the Outstanding Clinician Award and the Outstanding Education/Training Award)

Outstanding Mentor
Awarded to members of ABCT in good standing who have encouraged the clinical and/or academic and professional excellence of psychology graduate students, interns, postdocs, and/or residents. Outstanding mentors are considered those who have provided exceptional guidance to students through leadership, advisement and activities aimed at providing opportunities for professional development, networking and future growth. Appropriate nominators are current or past students of the mentor. (This Award Rotates with Outstanding Training Program Award)

Outstanding Training Program
This award will be given to a training program that has made a significant contribution to training behavior therapists and/or promoting behavior therapy. Training programs can include graduate (doctoral or master's), predoctoral internship, postdoctoral programs, institutes, or continuing education initiatives.

Virginia A. Roswell Student Dissertation Award
This award will be given to a student based on his or her doctoral dissertation proposal. The research should be relevant to behavior therapy. Accompanying this honor will be a $1,000 award to be used in support of research (e.g., to pay participants, to purchase testing equipment) and/or to facilitate travel to the ABCT convention. Eligible candidates for this award should be student members who have already had their dissertation proposal approved and are investigating an area of direct relevance to behavior therapy, broadly defined. A student's dissertation mentor should complete the nomination.

Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy
Eligible candidates for this award should NOT be members of ABCT, but are individuals who have promoted the mission of cognitive and/or behavioral work outside of our organization.

Outstanding Service to ABCT
This award is presented to a person who has actively demonstrated exceptional dedication, persistence, excellence, and rigor regarding the association's operation and activities.

Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Awards
This award can be given for any topic relevant to behavior therapy, but submissions consistent with the current conference theme are particularly encouraged. Eligible papers must be authored by an individual with five years or less posttraining experience; and have been published in the last two years or currently be in press. The criteria for the award includes the rationale, importance, and novelty of the study; its relevance to cognitive-behavioral therapy or assessment; methodology; analysis of the data and interpretation of empirical results; clarity of the written presentation; and independent scholarship.

President's New Researcher
This award is solicited by the current ABCT President and is judged by the President, Past President, and incoming President of the Association. Submissions will be accepted on any topic relevant to behavior therapy, but papers consistent with the current conference theme are particularly encouraged. The winner receives a certificate and a cash prize of $500.

Each award will be given to one student based on his/her doctoral dissertation proposal. The research should be relevant to behavior therapy. Accompanying this honor will be a $1,000 award to be used in support of research (e.g., to pay participants, to purchase testing equipment) and/or to facilitate travel to the ABCT convention. Eligible candidates for this award should be student members who have already had their dissertation proposal approved and are investigating an area of direct relevance to behavior therapy, broadly defined. A student's dissertation mentor should complete the nomination. Please click on the link below to access and complete the nomination form, which will be sent to srobbins@holyfamily.edu. Also, mail a hard copy of your submission to ABCT, Student Dissertation Awards, 305 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10001.

Nomination deadline: March 2, 2010

NOMINATION APPLICATION

Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy

Eligible candidates for this award should NOT be members of ABCT, but are individuals who have promoted the mission of cognitive and/or behavioral work outside of our organization. Applications should include a letter of nomination, three letters of support, and a curriculum vitae of the nominee. Past recipients of this award include Jon Kabat-Zinn, Nora Volkow, John Allen, Anne Fletcher, Jack Gorman, Art Dykstra, and Michael Davis. Please click on the link below to access and complete the nomination form, which will be sent to srobbins@holyfamily.edu. Also, mail a hard copy of your submission to ABCT, Distinguised Friend to BT, 305 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10001.

Nomination deadline: March 2, 2010

NOMINATION APPLICATION

Career/Lifetime Achievement

Eligible candidates for this award should be members of ABCT in good standing who have made significant contributions over a number of years to cognitive and/or behavior therapy. Applications should include a letter of nomination, three letters of support, and a curriculum vitae of the nominee. Past recipients of this award include Albert Ellis, Leonard Ullman, Leonard Krasner, Steve Hayes, and David H. Barlow. Please click on the link below to access and complete the nomination form, which will be sent to srobbins@holyfamily.edu. Also, mail a hard copy of your submission to ABCT, Career/Lifetime Achievement, 305 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10001.

Nomination deadline: March 2, 2010

NOMINATION APPLICATION

Nominations for the following award are solicited from members of the ABCT governance:

Outstanding Service to ABCT

Please click on the link below to access and complete the nomination form, which will be sent to srobbins@holyfamily.edu. Also, mail a hard copy of your submission to ABCT, Outstanding Service to ABCT, 305 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10001.

Nomination deadline: March 2, 2010

NOMINATION APPLICATION

Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Awards

These awards are given to student first authors whose posters have been accepted for presentation at ABCT's Annual Convention. The winners each receive an ABCT Student Membership, a 1-year subscription to an ABCT journal of their choice, and a complimentary general registration at ABCT's next Annual Convention. To be eligible, students must first have their poster submission for this year's ABCT convention accepted for presentation. Student first authors are then invited to submit for consideration for the award. Poster submissions are accepted until March 1 of each year; submissions for the Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Awards are accepted until June of that year.

Submission Deadline: August 16, 2010

ELSIE RAMOS AWARD LETTER AND FORM

President's New Researcher Award

ABCT's 2010-2011 President, Frank Andrasik, Ph.D., invites submissions for the 32nd Annual President's New Researcher Award. The winner will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $500. Submissions will be accepted on any topic relevant to behavior therapy, but submissions consistent with the conference theme emphasizing universal processes across diagnostic areas and cognitive behavioral models are particularly encouraged. Eligible papers must (a) be authored by an individual with five years or less posttraining experience (e.g., post-Ph.D. or postresidency); and (b) have been published in the last two years or currently be in press. Submissions can consist of one's own or any eligible candidate's paper. Papers will be judged by a review committee consisting of Frank Andrasik, Ph.D., Robert Leahy, Ph.D., and Debra Hope, Ph.D. (ABCT's President, Immediate Past-President, and President-Elect). Submissions must be received by Monday, August 9, 2010, and must include four copies of both the paper and the author's vita. Send submissions to ABCT President's New Researcher Award, 305 Seventh Ave., 16th floor, New York, NY 10001.

Submission Deadline: August 10, 2010