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):
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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
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Provide excellence in any of the clinical fields - trauma, recovery, rescue and disaster work
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Provide new clinical pathways insights into the lives of child and adolescents, youth, adults or older adults suffering from psychosis
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Furthered the lives of fellow women colleagues in the field of mental health
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Provide any further insights into any individual or family therapies that promotes a women centered approach
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Pursued sex and gender clinical/research work
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Furthered the understanding of women and mental health in different cultural locations around the world
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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
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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