COUNCIL OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMS
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
The Award
The Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs initiated in 1998, an award program to recognize graduate student excellence in counseling psychology. Each year at the Council’s Annual Business Meeting during the APA convention, the award is given to a student who has demonstrated an outstanding record of scholarly and professional development. The award is graciously sponsored by Sage Publications, Inc., which also supplies the finalist with a generous gift.
Eligibility and Application Procedures
To be eligible for the Outstanding Graduate Student (OGS) award, nominees must be (at the time of their nomination) enrolled in a doctoral program in counseling psychology at a university holding institutional membership in CCPTP. Each member institution is eligible to nominate one student per year, and this nominee’s supportive materials (described below) are to be forwarded by the program’s Training Director. Application/support materials should include the following items:
1. A formal nomination/support letter from the nominee’s Training Director attesting to the program’s endorsement of the student’s consideration for the award.
2. Two additional letters of recommendation from professionals familiar with the nominee’s work. These letters should specifically comment on the student’s distinctive contributions to the scientific and professional domains of counseling psychology.
3. The student’s current vita, which should detail the nominee’s educational/work history and his or her professional and scholarly contributions.
Nomination materials must be completed and six copies of all materials forwarded to the OGS Award Committee Chair by the specified deadline each spring semester. Materials received after the deadline will not be considered.
Evaluation Procedures
Nomination materials will be distributed to the OGS Award Committee. This committee will be composed of two members of the CCPTP Executive Board and three members of the general CCPTP membership. Using the attached rating scales (see attached page), committee members will rate each nominee’s materials. The nominee with the highest overall mean rating will be selected as the award recipient, and he or she will be notified by June 1 each year in advance of the APA Convention when the award will be formally presented.
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