Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Practice in the Public Sector

This award recognizes outstanding service delivery by a psychologist who is primarily engaged in the practice of psychology in a public sector setting (e.g., state hospital, military, veterans administration, etc.) The award is intended to recognize outstanding practitioners in psychology. Nominations will be considered for psychologists working in a wide variety of public sector settings. Services provided to diverse client groups or patient populations are eligible for consideration, including but not limited to children/adolescents/adults/older adults; urban/rural/frontier populations; minority populations and persons with serious mental illness. Contributions can be judged distinguished by virtue of peer recognition, advancement of the public's recognition of psychology as a profession, relevant professional association honors, or other meritorious accomplishments denoting excellence as a practitioner including improvement of public service delivery systems or development of psychologically informed public policy.

In previous years, this award was called the Award for Distinguished Professonal Contributions to Public Service. The name was changed in 2003 to better describe this award.

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