The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is seeking proposals for Walter Katkovsky Research Grants to to support the investigation of how personality, culture, and environment influence work behavior and health.
Donor Name: American Psychological Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/01/2022
Grant Size: $1,500
Details:
The Group Psychotherapy Grant focuses primarily on groups in a therapeutic context. Issues such as effectiveness of different approaches to group therapy would fall under this area. Although this will often involve studies of group psychotherapy, it may also include other groups with health implications (e.g., support groups for smoking cessation, weight loss, etc.). Samples of topics appropriate for the group psychotherapy award include (but are not limited to):
- efficacy of group therapy for specific disorders;
- impact of member individual differences, including gender, personality, prior duration of disorder, or comorbidity, on effectiveness of group therapy;
- relative efficacy of different modes of therapy (e.g., comparing group to individual) or different communication styles (e.g., use of referential language) within or across disorders;
- the role of group climate in the effectiveness of group therapy.
Funding Information
Grants of up to $1,500 are available.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the APF Division 49 Group Psychotherapy grant, applicants must:
- Be affiliated with nonprofit charitable, educational, and scientific institutions, or governmental entities operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.
- Have a demonstrated knowledge of group psychology and/or group psychotherapy principles.
- IRB approval must be received from host institution before funding can be awarded if human participants are involved.
- Preference will be given to early career psychologists (10 years or fewer postdoctoral).
- Preference will be given to proposals which integrate group psychotherapy and group psychology into the proposed research.
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