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  K’hairi Hailey, Chair, Student Development Committee. E-mail: nh10556@georgiasouthern.edu

Submission Deadline: March 1

2024 Recipient

Thea Schønning

Thea Schønning, MD, is a clinical research fellow at the University of Oslo. She is a trained medical doctor with a background in both clinical practice and academic research. Her work focuses on psychoanalytic psychotherapy for youth, with a particular interest in treatment processes and outcomes in adolescent mental health care

Previous Recipients

2024 – Sabrina Ge
2023 – Frederik Wienicke
2022 – No award given
2021 – No award given
2020 – 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
2004 – No award given
2003 – No award 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
1998 – No award given
1997 – No award given
1996 – No award given
1995 – No award given
1994 – 1st Place: Benjamin Johnson, Yale University
Hon. Mention: 1994 – William A Hogan, Indiana State U., Jessica Beth Londa, Vanderbilt U., William KJ. Lamb, U.C. Berkeley
1993 – No award given
1992 – No award given
1991 – 1st Place: Steven Herman, Rutgers U. “Therapist-client similarity as a predictor of psychotherapy outcome”
2nd Place: 1991 – Maureen Corbet, U of Maryland. “A brief history of research on the process of individual psychotherapy”