Constantino receives APF Early Career Award

Michael J. Constantino, assistant professor of Psychology, has been selected to receive the American Psychological Foundation’s (APF) Division 29 (Psychotherapy) 2007 Early Career Award. The award will be presented at the 115th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in August.

The award recognizes promising contributions to psychotherapy, psychology, and the division of psychotherapy by a Division 29 member with 10 or fewer years of postdoctoral experience.

Constantino completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology at Penn State in 2002 before going on to a two-year, National Institutes of Health-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford University Medical Center. He joined the Psychology faculty in 2004.

Constantino’s research program centers broadly on psychotherapy process, outcome and integration with adults. The focus is on understanding patient, therapist, and relational processes that influence psychosocial treatments, and on the development and systematization of therapeutic interventions that address pantheoretical principles of clinical change, such as treatment expectations and the patient-therapist relationship. To date, this work primarily relates to the treatment of depression, anxiety and bulimia nervosa. For these conditions, Constantino has also conducted basic research in an effort to uncover important psychological phenomena that have a bearing on treatment.

He has published both theoretical and empirical work in leading journals in the field, and he has received both internal and external grant support for his research. Constantino has also provided significant service to the field, including his current Division 29 roles as continuing education chair and editorial consultant for the division’s journal, Psychotherapy.

APF is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization that advances the science and practice of psychology as a means of understanding behavior and promoting health, education, and human welfare.

April 17, 2007.

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