The Barbro Sandin Award

Criteria to be nominated for the Barbro Sandin Award are as follows (the woman recipient needs to have accomplished one or more of the following): 

1. Furthered the lives of women in the field of mental health through excellence in one of the following areas: teaching, mentoring, clinical work and/or research

2. Provide excellence in any of the clinical fields - trauma, recovery, rescue and disaster work

3. Provide new clinical pathways insights into the lives of child and adolescents, youth, adults or older adults suffering from psychosis

4. Furthered the lives of fellow women colleagues in the field of mental health

5. Provide any further insights into any individual or family therapies that promotes a women centered approach

6. Pursued sex and gender clinical/research work

7. Furthered the understanding of women and mental health in different cultural locations around the world

8. Further a sense of humanness, existentialism - helping those suffering from mental illness a way to create meaning in their lives and provide hope for the future

9. Pursued their research and patient care in spite of resistance, rejection or traditional thinking

Past winners:

Winner of the 2015 Barbro Sandin Award: Danielle Knafo, Director of the Serious and Persistent Mental Illness Concentration, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, Long Island University, United States

Winner of the 2013 Barbro Sandin Award: Amra Dautovic, Managing Director of My Time CIC (Mental Health Institute) in Birmingham, UK

Winner of the 2011 Barbro Sandin Award: Ann-Louise S. Silver, MD www.isps-us.org/isps-us_spotlight.html

Winner of the 2009 Barbro Sandin Award: Arnhild Lauveng, Norway