Division 22 Awards It is again time to honor the best and the most accomplished of our colleagues who have contributed so much to the field of Rehabilitation Psychology. Below is a listing of the awards that will be awarded at the APA Convention in August. Nominations for all awards are due by the first week of April. Please nominate deserving individuals for each of the awards by submitting a brief rationale for nominating the person, a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae and their contact information. The information can be submitted to Kate Brown, PhD at ksbrown@hawaii.rr.com

Lifetime Achievement

This annual award is given to recognize the rehabilitation psychologist who has made distinguished contributions in their lifetime of work in the areas of practice, science, public interest, and/or education and training that advances rehabilitation psychology as a science or a profession.

Roger G. Barker Distinguished Research Contribution Award

This annual award is conferred upon an individual who is judged to have made an outstanding lifelong contribution to rehabilitation psychology through empirical research, conceptual/theoretical development or both.

Early Career Research Award

This annual award is given to persons who, while still in the first 10 years since being awarded their doctorate, have made a significant contribution to research in the area of rehabilitation psychology.

In addition to the awards listed above nominated by the membership,
at the APA Convention, the Division also gives the:

Harold Yuker Award for Research Excellence
This annual award is given to the first author of the most highly rated paper published in the journal Rehabilitation Psychology during the previous year.

Distinguished Service
This award is presented at the discretion of the Division President to honor those individuals who have made distinguished contributions to Division 22 over the past year/several years above and beyond their elected or committee appointments

Student Research Award
This award is given to recognize an outstanding graduate student in the field of rehabilitation psychology as demonstrated by their research presentation presented in poster format at the APA Convention.

Past Division 22 Awardees

Lifetime Achievement/Special Achievement

1978 James Garrett
1980 Tamara Dembo
1981 Beatrice Wright
1982 Durard Jacobs
1984 Leonard Diller
1985 Douglas Fenderson
1986 Wilbert Fordyce
1987 Nancy Kerr
1988 George Wright
1989 Myron Eisenberg
1990 Roberta Trieschman
1991 Lee Meyerson
1992 Herb Zaretsky
1993 Nancy Crewe
1994 Susanne Bruyere
1995 Len Diller
1996 Richard Cox
1998 Robert Glueckauf
1999 John Corrigan
2002 Mitchell Rosenthal
2004 Bernard S. Brucker
2005 Franklin C. Shontz
2006 J. Scott Richards

The Roger G. Barker Distinguished Research Contribution Award

1988 Brian Bolton
1989 William Anthony
1990 Gary Bond
1991 Harold Yuker
1992 Wayne Gordon
1993 Marcus Fuhrer
1994 Len Diller
1995 Robert G. Frank
1996 Franklin Shontz
1997 Mitch Rosenthal
1998 J. Scott Richards
1999 Myron (Mike) Eisenberg
2000 Allen Heinemann
2001 Nancy Crewe
2002 John Corrigan
2003 Jeffrey Scott Kruetzer
2004 Catherine A. Mateer
2005 Beatrice Wright
2006 Yehuda Ben-Yishay

Larry Stewart Award

1996 I. King Jordan
1998 McCay Vernon
2000 James MacDougall
2002 Barry Critchfield
2004 Robert Q. Pollard (presented in 2005)
2006 Irene Leigh

Early Career Research Award*

1990 James Krause
1991 Timothy Elliott
1992 Susan Buckelew
1993 Fong Chan
1994 Meg Nosek
1995 Thomas Novack
1996 Peter Lichtenberg
1997 Kristofer Hagglund
1998 Bruce Rybarcyzk
1999 Cynthia Radnitz
2000 Janet Farmer
2001 Joe Ricker
2002 Dawn Eade
2003 Douglas Johnson-Greene
2004 Daniel L. Clay
2005 Laura Schopp
2006 Robin Hanks
*formerly Garrett Award until 1999

Harold Yuker Award for Research Excellence**

1994 Roger Rape, Joseph Bush & Lesley Slavin (for paper appearing in 1992 volume)
1995 Stephanie Hanson, Susan Buckelew, etc. (appeared in 1993)
1996 William Fals-Stewart & Stephen Lucente (1994)
1997 Dan Clay et al. (1995) Kathie Chwalisz (1996)
1998 Charles Bombardier (1997), Darlene Hawkins & Allen Heinemann (1998)
2000 Charles Callahan (1999)
2003 Arne Eide & Espen Roysamb
2004 Nicholas Doninger
2005 John M. Chaney
2006 Gail M. Williamson
**typically awarded to the first author, was called the Springer Award until the journal changed publishers in 1997.

Leonard Diller Award

1999 George Prigatano
2000 Denise Tate
2001 Edward Taub
2002 Mitch Rosenthal
2003 Beatrice Wright
2004 Scott Richards
2005 Jeffrey Kreutzer
2006 Erin Bigler
2007 John Corrigan