Donald K. Freedheim Student Development Paper Award
Description
The Donald K. Freedheim Student Development Award for the best paper on psychotherapy theory, practice, or research.
Funding Specifics
Cash prize of $500 for the winner.
Benefits of Applying
- Cash prize.
- Enhance your curriculum vitae and gain national recognition.
- Certificate and check presented at the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Awards Ceremony at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
- Abstract will be published in the Psychotherapy Bulletin, the official publication of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.
Proposal Requirements
- Papers must be based on work conducted by the first author. The paper must be written, and award application be submitted, no more than two years post-graduate degree. Papers can be based on (but are not restricted to) a Masters thesis or a doctoral dissertation.
- Papers should be in APA style, not to exceed 25 pages in length (including tables, figures, and references) and should not list the authors’ names or academic affiliations.
- Please include a title page as part of a separate attached MS-Word or PDF document so that the papers can be judged “blind.” This page can include authors’ names and academic affiliations.
- Also include a cover letter as part of a separate attached MS-Word or PDF document. The cover letter should attest that the paper is based on work that the first author conducted while in graduate school. It should also include the first author’s mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
- All applicants must be members of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. Join the Society here.
- Applicant must specify for which award he/she is applying. Applicants can submit multiple papers for awards, but an individual paper may only be submitted for a single award.
- Papers that have been published will be considered, but submissions should be in final manuscript format (such as a word document).
Submission Process & Deadline
Submission Process: Email materials to Carly Schwartzman, Chair, Student Development Committee. E-mail: [email protected]
Submission Deadline: April 1
Donald K. Freedheim Student Development Paper Award
2018 Recipient: Brian TaeHyuk Keum
Title: Group- and Individual- Level Self-Stigma Reductions in Promoting Psychological Help-Seeking Attitudes among College Students in Helping Skills Courses
Author: Brian TaeHyuk Keum
Institution: University of Maryland-College Park
Brian TaeHyuk Keum is a PhD candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Maryland-College Park studying under Dr. Matthew J. Miller. Prior to beginning his PhD program, he received his MA in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests include contemporary issues of discrimination and mental health correlates (such as online racism and gendered racism), stigma reduction and promotion of psychological help-seeking, psychotherapy process and outcome research on clients of color, and group perspectives in counselor training. Brian started his counselor training during his Master's at a community outpatient agency in lower east side of New York City serving primarily low-income immigrant clientele. Since then, he transitioned to providing counseling to college students and community-based clientele in the DMV area for the past four years. Brian is applying for his pre-doctoral internship this upcoming academic year.
Paper Abstract: Researchers have studied interventions to reduce self-stigma, a personally held belief that seeking psychological help would make one undesirable and socially unacceptable. However, most studies have focused on individual-level changes in self-stigma using psychoeducation interventions that have garnered mixed findings on their effectiveness. In light of the robust and resistant nature of individual self-stigma, little research has examined the role of group-level self-stigma changes in promoting individuals’ psychological help-seeking attitudes. It is possible that a common group identity working toward collective reduction in self-stigma can help foster and reinforce individuals’ positive psychological help-seeking attitude. Thus, the current study examined the differential impact of individual- and group-level changes in self-stigma on psychological help-seeking attitudes. Implications for research and stigma reduction strategies are discussed.
Donald K. Freedheim Student Development Paper Award
Previous Winners
2017 – Melanie Love, Teachers College, Columbia University, "Dishonesty and Self-Concealment in Psychotherapy"
2016 – Amanda Zold, UAA-UAF, “Clients’ Perceptions of Personal Psychotherapy for Therapists”
2015 – Marilyn A. Cornish, PhD, paper completed during doctoral studies at Iowa State University, “Working Through Past Wrongdoing: Examination of a Self-Forgiveness Counseling Intervention”
2014 – Jenny H. Lotterman, Teachers College, Columbia University, “Erotic Feelings Toward the Therapist: A Relational Perspective”
2013 – Alexey Tolchinsky, George Washington University, “Acute Trauma In Adulthood in The Context of Childhood Traumatic Experiences”
2012 – Rebecca M. Ametrano, University of Massachusetts -Amherst, “Patient Outcome Expectations and Credibility Beliefs as Predictors of the Alliance and Treatment Outcome”
2011 – Jenelle Slavin-Mulford, MA, The Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University ”Therapeutic Interventions Related to Outcome in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorder Patients”
2010 – Rebecca Stewart
2009 – no award given
2008 – Joshua K Swift, MS, Oklahoma State University, The Impact of Client Treatment Preferences on Outcome: A Meta-Analysis
2007 – Jesse A Metzger, Teachers College, Columbia University, “The Relationship Between Patients’ Representations of Therapists and Parents”
2006 – LaTanya A. Carter, M.A., Michigan State University
2005 – LaRicka R. Wingate
2003 and 2004 – No awards given
2002 – Susan S Woodhouse
2001 – Mary L. Malik, U of California, Santa Barbara
2000 – Jonathan Mohr, U. of Maryland, College Park
1999 – Georgios K Lampropoulos
1994 – 1st Place: Benjamin Johnson, Yale University
Hon. Mention: William A Hoganm Indiana State U
Jessica Beth Londa, Vanderbilt U.
William KJ. Lamb, U.C. Berkeley
1991 – 1st Place: Steven Herman, Rutgers U. “Therapist-client similarity as a predictor of psychotherapy outcome”
2nd Place: Maureen Corbet, U of Maryland. “A brief history of research on the process of individual psychotherapy”
