Awards to Faculty | Department of Psychology

Awards to Faculty

MLK Suffolk County Public Service Award, 2017
- https://news.stonybrook.edu/news/general/2017-02-07-stony-brook-university-london-sperzel
American PsychoPathological Association, Robins-Guze Award, 2017
- http://www.appassn.org/
Association for Psychological Science, Rising Star, 2015
Samuel M. Turner Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity (APA Division 12), 2020

Martin Mayman Award for best theoretical paper published in the Journal of Personality Assessment, 2019

Hugo G. Beigel Award for best paper published in the Journal of Sex Research, 2018

Martin Mayman Award for best theoretical paper published in the Journal of Personality Assessment, 2015
American Psychological Association, Leadership Award, 2016
- http://www.apa.org/pi/women/committee/leadership-award-list.aspx
Association for Psychological Science, Rising Star, 2015
- http://www.psychologicalscience.org/rising-stars/stars.cfm
APA Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Clinical Psychology 2012
- http://www.div12.org/sites/default/files/List_of_All_Past_Awards.pdf
Society for Research in Psychopathology Mentor Award 2012
- http://www.psychopathology.org/awardwinners
The Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award 2000
- http://www.wpic.pitt.edu/research/biometrics/zubin_awards.htm
1998 APA Division 12 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology

2000 APA Division 29 Award for Distinguished Psychologist

2001 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge

2002 Division 1 Staats Award for Contributions toward Unifying Psychology

2003 Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions

2004 Division 44 Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions

2004 Distinguished Professor of Psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook

2005 Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) Distinguished Career Award

2005 Division 29 Rosalee Weiss Award

2006 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Education/Training Activities Award

2008 Stony Brook Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring

2009 Division 29 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring

2009 Division 44 Evelyn Hooker Award for Distinguished Contribution by an Ally

Recipient of the 2018 APA/APF Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology
2020 Sara S. Sparrow Early Career Research Award. APA Division 33.
- http://www.division33.org/awards
2020 David Shakow Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology. Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12).
- https://www.div12.org/awards/
2019 Richard “Dick” Abidin Early Career Award. Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP)/APA Division 53.
- https://sccap53.org/2019-sccap-award-and-grant-recipients/
2019 Early Career Research Contributions Award. Society for Research in Child Development.
- https://www.srcd.org/meetings/biennial-meeting/2019-srcd-biennial-awardees#EarlyCareerResearchContributions
2018 SASI Hero Award. Specialized Autism Support & Information.

2018 Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Early Career Research Award. The Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. American Psychological Association, Division 12, Section III.

2017 Transformative Contributions Award. Autism Spectrum & Developmental Disabilities Special Interest Group, Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies.

National Institute of Mental Health, Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists, 2016
- https://news.stonybrook.edu/facultystaff/professor-lerner-awarded-brains-funding-to-support-autism-research/
Association for Psychological Science, Rising Star, 2015
- http://www.psychologicalscience.org/rising-stars/stars.cfm
International Society for Autism Research, Young Investigator Award 2014
- https://news.stonybrook.edu/facultystaff/faculty-honored-at-annual-dinner-2/
Association for Psychological Science "Rising Star" 2013
- https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/rising-stars-11
Vice President of the NY Chapter of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (2014/2015), an organization composed of judges, attorneys, and divorce mediators.

Psychologist of the Year, Suffolk County Psychological Association, June 17, 2011.

Lifetime Achievement Award by National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center, June 27, 2009.

Distinguished Professor of Psychology, State University of New York, 1988.

Installed into the National Academies of Practice in Psychology, August 21, 1986.

Received Distinguished Scientist Award from the clinical division (12, Section III) of the American Psychological Association in August, 1985.

President of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, 1982-1983.

Among the top 100 cited psychologists in the English-speaking world (American Psychologist, December, 1978).
- Emerita Professor, Harriet Waters, is the recipient of the 2021 Bowlby-Ainsworth Award "For her Insights into the cognitive structure of attachment representations, clarifying the Internal Working Models concept, and measuring script-like attachment representations across the lifespan."

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