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THE ABCT AWARDS PROGRAM RECOGNIZES AND SALUTES INDIVIDUALS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE HELPED TO TRAIN MANY OF THESE VERY PEOPLE.

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    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.

    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.

    Student Dissertation Awards

  • Virginia A. Roswell Student Dissertation Award ($1,000)
  • Leonard Krasner Student Dissertation Award ($1,000)
  • John R. Z. Abela Student Dissertation Award ($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 monetary award (see above) 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 may complete the nomination. Self-nominations are also accepted. Nominations must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor.

    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 is 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 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.
    Submissions for the Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Awards will be accepted until August 1.

    President's New Researcher Award
    This award is solicited by the current ABCT President and is judged by the President, Past President, and incoming President of the Association. The award will be based upon an early program of research that reflects factors such as: consistency with the mission of ABCT; independent work published in high-impact journals; and promise of developing theoretical or practical applications that represent clear advances to the field While nominations consistent with the conference theme are particularly encouraged, submissions will be accepted on any topic relevant to cognitive behavior therapy, including but not limited to topics such as the development and testing of models, innovative practices, technical solutions novel venues for service delivery, and new applications of well-established psychological principles. Submissions must include four copies of both the paper and the author's vita and supporting letters if the latter are included. Eligible papers must (a) be authored by an individual with five years or less posttraining experience (e.g., post-Ph.D. or post-residency); and (b) have been published in the last two years or currently be in press. The winner receives a certificate and a cash prize of $500.
    Submission deadline: August 5, 2013

     

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    Career/Lifetime Achievement

    1995 Joseph Wolpe

    1996 Andrew Salter

    1997 Nathan Azrin

    1998 Aaron T. Beck

    1999 Arnold Lazarus

    2000 Cyril Franks

    2001 Albert Bandura

    2002 Leonard Krasner

    2003 Gerald C. Davison

    2004 Leonard P. Ullmann

    2005 Albert Ellis

    2006 Edward B. Blanchard

    2007 Steven C. Hayes

    2008 David Barlow

    2009 Edna B. Foa

    2010 G. Alan Marlatt

    2011 Antonette M. Zeiss

    2012 Alan E. Kazdin

    Outstanding Educator/Trainer

    1997 Gerald Davison

    2000 Leo Reyna

    2003 Harold Leitenberg

    2006 Marvin R. Goldfried

    2009 Philip C. Kendall

    2012 Patricia A. Resick

    Outstanding Researcher

    1998 Alan Kazdin

    1995 Edna Foa

    2001 David H. Barlow

    2004 Terence M. Keane

    2007 Thomas D. Borkovec

    2010 Steven D. Hollon

    Outstanding Clinician

    1996 Albert Ellis

    1999 Marsha M. Linehan

    2002 Marvin R. Goldfried

    2005 Frank M. Dattilio

    2008 Jacqueline Persons

    2011 Judith S. Beck

    Outstanding Service to ABCT

    2000 Linda C. Sobell & Mary Ellen Brown, AABT

    2001 Dorothy J. Susskind

    2002 Barry Lubetkin & Steven T. Fishman

    2003 Lizette Peterson-Homer (in memoriam), Richard J. Seime, & Rosemary Park, AABT

    2004 Arthur M. Nezu & Mary Jane Eimer, AABT

    2005 G. Terence Wilson

    2006 All individuals who have served as Secretary-Treasurer for the association

    2007 Mitchell L. Schare

    2008 Bob Klepac

    2009 Arthur Freeman

    2010 Gail Steketee, Michael W. Otto, Sabine Wilhelm, Stefan Hofmann, Mary Ellen Brown

    2011 George F. Ronan

    2012 Laura E. Dreer, Carl V. Indovina, PsyD, and Lynn McFarr (for their hard work on ABCT list-serve development and maintenance

    Outstanding Mentor

    2006 Richard G. Heimberg

    2008 G. Terence Wilson

    2010 Richard J. McNally

    2012 Mitchell J. Prinstein

    Outstanding Training Program

    1995 University of Mississippi Medical Center/Department of Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center (Ronald Drabman, Training Director)

    1996 Peter Monti, Brown University

    1997 SUNY Stony Brook

    1998 University of Georgia

    1999 Clinical Psychology Training Programs at Rutgers

    2000 VA Palo Alto Health Care System

    2001 Clinical Psychology Training Program at West Virginia University

    2002 Psychology Internship and Postdoctoral Programs at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Robert K. Klepac, Director of Psychology Training

    2003 University of Washington Clinical Ph.D. Program, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Director of Training

    2004 SUNY Binghamton, Clinical Psychology Program, Peter Donovick, Director of Training

    2005 The May Institute, Walter P. Christian, President and CEO, and Dennis C. Russo, Chief Clinical Officer

    2007 Ph.D. Program in Combined Clinical & School Psychology, Mitchell L. Schare, Ph.D., ABPP, Director of Training, Hofstra University

    2009 SUNY Albany, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (John Forsyth, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Training)

    2011 Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., Director, Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program, and Steven A. Safren, Ph.D., Director, Behavioral Medicine Program

    Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy

    1995 Plenum Press

    1996 Daniel Goleman

    1997 Anxiety Disorders Association of America

    1998 Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation

    1999 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

    2000 Lisa Simon Onken and Jack David Blaine, NIDA

    2001 Jeff Kluger (“What Are You Afraid of?”, Time)

    2002 Anne Fletcher, (Sober for Good)

    2003 John Allen, Chief of the Treatment Research Branch of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

    2004 Nora Volkow, NIDA

    2005 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School

    2006 Jack Gorman, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital

    2007 Art Dykstra, CEO, Trinity Services

    2008 Michael Davis

    2009 B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute

    2010 Paul Ekman, Ph.D., Paul Ekman Group, LLC

    2011 The Honorable Erik K. Shinseki, Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs

    2012 Michael Gelder, M.D., FRCPsych, University of Oxford, UK

    President’s New Researcher

    1979 Dianne Chambless

    1980 J. Kelly

    1981 Linda Craighead

    1982 William Thrash

    1983 Karen Bierman

    1984 Edward Konarski, Jr.

    1985 Janet St. Lawrence

    1986 Thomas Wadden

    1987 Richard Ingram

    1988 Michael Carey

    1989 K. Perkins

    1990 Deborah Beidel

    1991 Ernest Jouriles

    1992 David Haaga

    1994 Thomas Bradbury

    1995 Steven Taylor

    1996 Brian Cox

    1997 Lynn Rankin-Esquer

    1998 Michael Addis

    1999 Diane L. Spangler

    2000 Beth A. Kotchick and Lindsey L. Cohen

    2001 Page Anderson

    2002 Allison Harvey

    2003 John R. Z. Abela

    2004 Michael Zvolensky

    2005 C. W. Lejuez (honorable mention: Matthew Nock)

    2006 Christopher Beevers

    2007 Jasper Smits

    2008 Matthew Nock

    2009 Bunmi Olatunji

    2010 Matthew T. Tull

    2011 Andres De Los Reyes

    2012 Jonathan Comer

    Student Dissertation Award

    1995 Daniel Edwards, University of Florida

    1996 John P. Forsyth, West Virginia University

    1997 Giao Tran, American University

    1998 Melissa Polusny, Mankato State University

    1999 Amy Wenzel, University of Iowa; Elizabeth T. Miller, University of Washington

    2000 Natalie Walders, Case Western University

    Virginia Roswell Dissertation

    2001 Jill T. Levitt, Boston University

    2002 Sudie Back, University of Georgia

    2003 Elizabeth M. Podniesinski, Boston University

    2004 James MacKillop, SUNY Binghamton

    2005 Sharon L. Cohan, San Diego State University

    2006 Michael P. Twohig, University of Nevada

    2007 Laura Allen

    2008 Marina A. Bornovalova

    2009 Diane Logan

    2010 Margaret Sibley

    2011 Katherine J. W. Baucom

    2012 Caroline Oppenheimer

    Leonard Krasner Student Dissertation

    2009 Michael D. Anestis

    2010 Shari Steinman

    2011 Christian Webb

    2012 Johanna Thompson-Hollands

    John R. Z. Abela Student Dissertation

    2011 Katie C. Hart

    2012 Amanda S. Morrison

     
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