Division 56 gives four awards annually for meritorious contributions to the field of trauma psychology. The Division also awards Fellow status to those members who have made unusual and outstanding contributions to trauma psychology. We encourage you to visit our Fellows' websites listed below to learn more about their work.
To nominate a colleague for one of these awards please submit electronically a copy of the nominee's CV with a nominating letter describing the candidate's suitability to the Awards Chair. Nominations are due by June 15th. Self-nominations are accepted.
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology
This award recognizes distinguished contributions to psychological practice. It may be given for the development of a highly effective intervention, for contributions to practice theory, or for a sustained body of work in the field of trauma psychology practice.
2007 Winner
- Christine Courtois
Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology
This award recognizes distinguished contributions to scientific research. It may be given in recognition of a particular discovery or for a sustained body of research and scholarship.
2007 Winner
- Dean Kilpatrick
Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Trauma Psychology
This award recognizes sustained contributions of leadership in the field of trauma psychology.
2007 Winner
- Judith Alpert
Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Field of Trauma Psychology
This award recognizes the most outstanding dissertation defending in the prior academic year on a topic in the field of trauma psychology. Quantitative qualitative and theoretical dissertations are all welcome.
To nominate a dissertation please send a copy of the candidate's CV, a copy of the dissertation, and a copy of a publication derived from the dissertation to the Awards Chair. Nominations are due by June 15th.
2007 Winner
- Carolyn Allard, University of Oregon
Fellows
Fellow status in APA is awarded in recognition of unusual and outstanding contributions to the fielf of psychology. Such contributions may be to science, practice, policy, or leadership. Fellow status in Division 56 is awarded to members of the Division who have made this kind of valuable contribution to the field of trauma psychology.
Persons seeking initial Fellow status in APA through Division 56 should contact the Fellows Chair for detailed instructions as to the process. Members of Division 56 who are already Fellows of APA should contact the Fellows Chair for instructions about becoming a Fellow of the Division.
Current Fellows of the Division who have their own websites are strongly encouraged to send the url to the Web Editor so that we may include that information in the list of Division Fellows below.
Recent Fellows
- Ricky Greenwald http://www.childtrauma.com/
- Barbara O. Rothbaum http://prod-med.emory.edu/faculty/profile_bio.cfm?id=916
List of Fellows
- Norman Abeles
- Daniel Abrahamson
- Rosalie Ackerman
- Kenneth Adams
- Judith Alpert
- Norman Anderson
- Ellen Baker
- Lawrence Balter
- Martha Estina Banks
- Laura Barbanel
- Andrew Baum
- J. Gayle Beck
- Judith Becker
- Rivka Bertisch-Meir
- Lawrence Brammer
- Jeffrey Brandsma
- Patricia Bricklin
- Timothy Brock
- Philip Bromberg
- Kathleen Sitley Brown
- Laura S. Brown
- Steven Bucky
- Lester Butt
- Silvia Sara Canetto
- Etzel Cardena
- Elizabeth Carll
- Cindy Carlson
- Jean Carter
- Armand Cerbone
- Lillian Comas-Diaz
- Christine Courtois
- Margaret Crosbie-Burnett
- Frances Culbertson
- W. Hobart Davies
- Irene Dietch
- Paul Dell
- Florence Denmark
- Joel Dvoskin
- David Eckerman
- Alan Entin
- Charles Figley
- Iris Fodor
- A. Steven Frankel
- Jennifer J. Freyd
- Edward Frischholz
- Steven N. Gold
- Gail S. Goodman
- Lisa Goodman
- Gloria Behar Gottsegen
- Stanley Graham
- Frances Kaplan Grossman
- James David Guy Jr.
- Douglas C. Haldeman
- Raymond Hanbury
- Mary Harvey
- Michele Harway
- Kate Hays
- Margaret Heldring
- Stevan E. Hobfoll
- Arthur MacNeill Horton Jr
- Leon Hyer
- Gerard A. Jacobs
- Joseph Juhasz
- Anie Kalayjian
- Harriette Kaley
- Bertram Karon
- Ellyn Kaschak
- Terence Keane
- Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
- Robert Kerns
- Dean G. Kilpatrick
- David Kolko
- Mary Koss
- Arthur Kovacs
- Ronald Levant
- John Linton
- Leland Lipp
- Lewis Lipsitt
- Chalsa M. Loo
- Bernice Lott
- Sophie Lovinger
- Don-David Lusterman
- John Lutzker
- Kathleen Malley-Morrison
- James McCarthy
- Wilbert J. McKeachie
- Stanley Moldawsky
- Lisa Najavits
- Edmund J.Nightingale
- Alexander Rodney Nurse
- James M. O'Neil
- Judith Patterson
- Walter Erich Penk
- Lisa Porche-Burke
- Natalie Porter
- Kathryn Quina
- Carole A. Rayburn
- Joseph Reppen
- Patricia A.Resick
- Jaquelyn Liss Resnick
- Maria P. P. Root
- Ronald Rozensky
- Marilyn Safir
- Philip A. Saigh
- Lita Linzer Schwartz
- Ilene Serlin
- David L. Shapiro
- Paul Slovic
- Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky
- Charles D. Spielberger
- Robert D. Stolorow
- Cynthia Sturm
- Suzanne Ruth Sunday
- Steven Taylor
- Deborah Tharinger
- Virginia Theo-Steelman
- Nina K. Thomas
- Sarah Ullman
- Melba J.T. Vasquez
- Thomas John Vaughn
- Lenore E A. Walker
- Jacquelyn White
- Jack G. Wiggins Jr
- David Allen Wolfe
- Gail Elizabeth Wyatt

I worked towards the formation of div 56 because after many years of working with traumatized individuals and meeting colleagues who do this work, there was still no home for us in APA. Division 56 provides this home. Researchers, administrators and clinicians can come together to share knowledge and to develop new knowledge. I am excited by its possibilities.