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 Krizia Wearing, Chair, Student Development Committee. E-mail: wearingk@chc.edu
Submission Deadline: April 1
Donald K. Freedheim Student Development Paper Award
2023 Recipient: Frederik Wienicke
Frederik (Fritz) Wienicke and is a Ph.D. student at the Behavioural Science Institute of Radboud University (the Netherlands). His research focuses on investigating the efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) for depression through individual participant data meta-analyses. He is determined to shed new light on the ongoing debate surrounding the evidence base of STPP among scientists, policymakers, and clinical practitioners. Beyond examining the efficacy of STPP for depression, He also explores patient characteristics as treatment effect modifiers (referred to as ‘moderators’) and predictors of depression relapse after therapy. Through this research, his goal is to contribute to future treatment selection models and enhance our ability to prevent depression relapse, ultimately reducing the burden of this disorder
Donald K. Freedheim Student Development Paper Award
Previous Winners
2020 Recipient: Lauren M. Lipner, Adelphi University, “Operationalizing Alliance Rupture-Repair Events Using Control Chart Methods.”
2019-João Francisco Barreto, University of Porto, Portugal, “Mentalizing Countertransference? A Model for Research on the Elaboration of Countertransference Experience in Psychotherapy.”
2018-Brian TaeHyuk Keum, University of Maryland-College Park, “Group- and Individual- Level Self-Stigma Reductions in Promoting Psychological Help-Seeking Attitudes among College Students in Helping Skills Courses”
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”
