Career/Lifetime Achievement
1995 Joseph Wolpe
1996 Andrew Salter
1997 Nathan Azrin
1998 Aaron T. Beck
1999 Arnold Lazarus
2000 Cyril Franks
2001 Albert Bandura
2002 Leonard Krasner
2003 Gerald C. Davison
2004 Leonard P. Ullmann
2005 Albert Ellis
2006 Edward B. Blanchard
2007 Steven C. Hayes
2008 David Barlow
2009 Edna B. Foa
2010 G. Alan Marlatt
2011 Antonette M. Zeiss
2012 Alan E. Kazdin
2013 Thomas H. Ollendick
2014 Lauren B. Alloy & Lyn Y. Abramson
2015 David M. Clark
2016 Marsha M. Linehan
2017 Dianne L. Chambless
Outstanding Educator/Trainer
1997 Gerald Davison
2000 Leo Reyna
2003 Harold Leitenberg
2006 Marvin R. Goldfried
2009 Philip C. Kendall
2012 Patricia A. Resick
2016 Christine Maguth Nezu
Outstanding Researcher
1998 Alan Kazdin
1995 Edna Foa
2001 David H. Barlow
2004 Terence M. Keane
2007 Thomas D. Borkovec
2010 Steven D. Hollon
2013 Michelle G. Craske
2017 Jennifer P. Read
Outstanding Clinician
1996 Albert Ellis
1999 Marsha M. Linehan
2002 Marvin R. Goldfried
2005 Frank M. Dattilio
2008 Jacqueline Persons
2011 Judith S. Beck
2015 Anne Marie Albano
Mid-Career Innovator
2014 (in honor of G. Alan Marlatt) Carla Kmett Danielson
Outstanding Service to ABCT
2000 Linda C. Sobell & Mary Ellen Brown, AABT
2001 Dorothy J. Susskind
2002 Barry Lubetkin & Steven T. Fishman
2003 Lizette Peterson-Homer (in memoriam), Richard J. Seime, & Rosemary Park, AABT
2004 Arthur M. Nezu & Mary Jane Eimer, AABT
2005 G. Terence Wilson
2006 All individuals who have served as Secretary-Treasurer for the association
2007 Mitchell L. Schare
2008 Bob Klepac
2009 Arthur Freeman
2010 Gail Steketee, Michael W. Otto, Sabine Wilhelm, Stefan Hofmann, Mary Ellen Brown
2011 George F. Ronan
2012 Laura E. Dreer, Carl V. Indovina, PsyD, and Lynn McFarr (for their hard work on ABCT list-serve development and maintenance
2013 Kelly Koerner
2014 Michael Petronko & Mary Jane Eimer
2015 David A.F. Haaga
2016 Patrick L. Kerr
2017 David DiLillo
Outstanding Mentor
2006 Richard G. Heimberg
2008 G. Terence Wilson
2010 Richard J. McNally
2012 Mitchell J. Prinstein
2014 Bethany Teachman
2016 Evan M. Forman
Outstanding Training Program
1995 University of Mississippi Medical Center/Department of Veterans� Affairs Medical Center (Ronald Drabman, Training Director)
1996 Peter Monti, Brown University
1997 SUNY Stony Brook
1998 University of Georgia
1999 Clinical Psychology Training Programs at Rutgers
2000 VA Palo Alto Health Care System
2001 Clinical Psychology Training Program at West Virginia University
2002 Psychology Internship and Postdoctoral Programs at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Robert K. Klepac, Director of Psychology Training
2003 University of Washington Clinical Ph.D. Program, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Director of Training
2004 SUNY Binghamton, Clinical Psychology Program, Peter Donovick, Director of Training
2005 The May Institute, Walter P. Christian, President and CEO, and Dennis C. Russo, Chief Clinical Officer
2007 Ph.D. Program in Combined Clinical & School Psychology, Mitchell L. Schare, Ph.D., ABPP, Director of Training, Hofstra University
2009 SUNY Albany, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (John Forsyth, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Training)
2011 Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., Director, Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program, and Steven A. Safren, Ph.D., Director, Behavioral Medicine Program
2013 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Clinical Psychology Training Program, David J. Hansen, Ph.D., Director
2015 Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Training Program, Medical University of South Carolina (Co-Directors Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ph.D. and Daniel Smith, Ph.D.)
2017 Clinical Science Ph.D. Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Director, Lee D. Cooper, Ph.D.)
Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy
1995 Plenum Press
1996 Daniel Goleman
1997 Anxiety Disorders Association of America
1998 Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation
1999 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
2000 Lisa Simon Onken and Jack David Blaine, NIDA
2001 Jeff Kluger ("What Are You Afraid of?", Time)
2002 Anne Fletcher, (Sober for Good)
2003 John Allen, Chief of the Treatment Research Branch of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
2004 Nora Volkow, NIDA
2005 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School
2006 Jack Gorman, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital
2007 Art Dykstra, CEO, Trinity Services
2008 Michael Davis
2009 B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute
2010 Paul Ekman, Ph.D., Paul Ekman Group, LLC
2011 The Honorable Erik K. Shinseki, Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
2012 Michael Gelder, M.D., FRCPsych, University of Oxford, UK
2013 Mark S. Bauer, M.D., VA Boston Healthcare System
2014 Vikram Patel, FMedSci, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2015 Benedict Carey, New York Times
2016 Patrick J. Kennedy
Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice
2016 Nicole Caporino
2017 Carmen P. McLean
President's New Researcher
1979 Dianne Chambless
1980 J. Kelly
1981 Linda Craighead
1982 William Thrash
1983 Karen Bierman
1984 Edward Konarski, Jr.
1985 Janet St. Lawrence
1986 Thomas Wadden
1987 Richard Ingram
1988 Michael Carey
1989 K. Perkins
1990 Deborah Beidel
1991 Ernest Jouriles
1992 David Haaga
1994 Thomas Bradbury
1995 Steven Taylor
1996 Brian Cox
1997 Lynn Rankin-Esquer
1998 Michael Addis
1999 Diane L. Spangler
2000 Beth A. Kotchick and Lindsey L. Cohen
2001 Page Anderson
2002 Allison Harvey
2003 John R. Z. Abela
2004 Michael Zvolensky
2005 C. W. Lejuez (honorable mention: Matthew Nock)
2006 Christopher Beevers
2007 Jasper Smits
2008 Matthew Nock
2009 Bunmi Olatunji
2010 Matthew T. Tull
2011 Andres De Los Reyes
2012 Jonathan Comer
2013 Jesse Cougle
2014 Michael D. Anestis
2015 Rinad S. Beidas
2016 Cara C. Lewis
2017 Christian A. Webb
Student Dissertation Award
1995 Daniel Edwards, University of Florida
1996 John P. Forsyth, West Virginia University
1997 Giao Tran, American University
1998 Melissa Polusny, Mankato State University
1999 Amy Wenzel, University of Iowa; Elizabeth T. Miller, University of Washington
2000 Natalie Walders, Case Western University
Virginia Roswell Dissertation
2001 Jill T. Levitt, Boston University
2002 Sudie Back, University of Georgia
2003 Elizabeth M. Podniesinski, Boston University
2004 James MacKillop, SUNY Binghamton
2005 Sharon L. Cohan, San Diego State University
2006 Michael P. Twohig, University of Nevada
2007 Laura Allen
2008 Marina A. Bornovalova
2009 Diane Logan
2010 Margaret Sibley
2011 Katherine J. W. Baucom
2012 Caroline Oppenheimer
2013 Kaitlin P. Gallo
2014 Anahi Collado
2015 Danielle E. MacDonald
2016 Emily Georgia
2017 Maria Alexandra Kredlow
Leonard Krasner Student Dissertation
2009 Michael D. Anestis
2010 Shari Steinman
2011 Christian Webb
2012 Johanna Thompson-Hollands
2013 Sarah Royal
2014 Samantha Moshier
2015 Lauren E. Szkodny
2016 Tomislav Damir Zbozinek
2017 Shannon Blakey
John R. Z. Abela Student Dissertation
2011 Katie C. Hart
2012 Amanda S. Morrison
2014 Mei Yi Ng
2016 Faith Orchard
2017 Carolyn Spiro