Division 49 Conference Awards August 2024
· Student Travel Award Winners
o Dongjun Shin
o Hannah Shinew
o Taro Skikawa
o Yihen Zhou
· Poster Awards: Diversity and Social Justice Category
- Third Place: Isabella Panagos (co-author: Robinder P. Bedi),
- title: Stability and Valence in Group Psychotherapy: A Replication and Extension
- Second Place: Gabriela Munoz De Zubiria (co-authors: Natalia Vallejo Ulloa, and Eric C. Chen, PhD),
- title: Insights from a School-Based Group Counseling Initiative for Newly Arrived Latinx Middle Schoolers
- First Place: Hannah Brody (co-author: Yaakov Green),:
- title The Use of Community-based Group Processing Interventions in Response to Collective Grief and Trauma
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· Poster Awards: General Category
- Third Place: Hyun Ji Yi (co-authors: Kun Wang, Megan Prass, Jahnavi Pandya, Jiyoung Shin, and Martin Kivlighan),
- title: Exploring the Process of Fostering Group Relationships in Virtual Group Therapy from the Perspective of Group Facilitators
- Second Place: Lingguo Meng (co-authors: Tianxin Wang, and Martin Kivlighan III),
- title: Generalizability of the Therapeutic Factor Inventory-8 Comparing Clinical and Non-Clinical Sample
- First Place: Kun Wang (co-authors: Lisa Brownstone, Jade Cool, and Martin Kivlighan,
- title: Examining Within- and Between- Member Cohesion and Working Alliance Effects on Group Member’s Motivation: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model
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· The Award for Outstanding Professional Contribution to Diversity in Group Psychology or Group Psychotherapy
o Brian Keum
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· The Student Award for Outstanding Contribution to Diversity in Group Psychology or Group Psychotherapy
o Gabriel L. Medianero Araúz
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· Excellence in Teaching of Group Dynamics Award
o Nathaniel Wade
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· Special Award: Humanitarian Award
o Psychologists During the War Project (Ukraine)
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· Arthur Teicher Group Psychologist of the Year Award:
o Paul Hewitt
· Presidential Awards
o Alexis Abernathy
o Sophia Aguirre