Award for Best Dissertation in Mental Health
Previous Award Winners
Year |
Name |
Affiliation (at time of Award) |
Dissertation Title |
| 2010 | Kerry Dobransky |
Northwestern University |
“Help Me to Help You: The Logic and Practice of Empowerment in Community Mental Health Services." |
| 2009 | Brea L. Perry |
Indiana University |
“The Ripple Effect: Changes in Social Structural Location and Social Network Dynamics in Mental Illness." |
| 2008 | Sigrun Olafsdottir |
Boston University |
"Beds or Meds: The Changing Societal Response to Mental Health Problems in Advanced, Industrialized Nations, 1960-2003" |
| 2007 | Lisa Strohschein |
University of Alberta |
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| 2005 | Julie McLaughlin |
University of North Carolina- Charlotte |
"The Timing of Family Transitions and Depression: Difference by Sex and Education Level" |
| 2004 | Parisa Tehranifar |
Columbia University |
“Perceived Racial Discrimination among Urban African American Adolescents: Exploring Links with Ethnic Identity, School Ethnic Composition and Psychological Symptoms” |
| 2001 | Kristi Williams |
University of Texas |
“Has the Future of Marriage Arrived? A Contemporary Examination of the Effects of Marital Status and Marital Quality on the Psychological Well-Being of Women and Men” |
| 1999 | Alisa Lincoln |
Columbia Unviersity |
“Psychiatric Emergency Room Decision Making: Social Control and the ‘Undeserving Sick” |
| 1998 | Terrance J. Wade |
University of Western Ontario |
“Stress and Distress Among Husbands and Wives” |
| 1994 | Pamela Braboy Jackson |
Duke University |
"The Context of Transition Events Across the Life Course: The Effects of Prior Event Sequencing on Adult Mental Health" |