Constantino chosen for New Researcher Award
Michael J. Constantino, assistant professor of Psychology, has been selected to receive the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration’s (SEPI) 2007 New Researcher Award. The award will be presented at SEPI’s 24th annual meeting next May.
The award recognizes promising contributions to psychotherapy integration by a SEPI member with five years or less of post-training experience. The award is based on Constantino’s paper, “The association between patient characteristics and the therapeutic alliance in cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal therapy for bulimia nervosa,” which was published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. He was the lead author of the 2005 paper.
Constantino completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology at Penn State in 2002 before going on to a two-year, National Institutes of Health-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford University Medical Center. He joined the Psychology faculty in 2004.
Constantino’s research program centers broadly on psychotherapy process, outcome and integration with adults. The focus is on understanding patient, therapist, and relational processes that influence psychosocial treatments, and on the development and systematization of therapeutic interventions that address pantheoretical principles of clinical change, such as treatment expectations and the patient-therapist relationship. To date, this work primarily relates to the treatment of depression, anxiety and bulimia nervosa. For these conditions, Constantino has also conducted basic research in an effort to uncover important psychological phenomena that have a bearing on treatment.
He has published both theoretical and empirical work in leading journals in the field, and he has received both internal and external grant support for his research. Constantino has also provided significant service to the field, including an ad hoc reviewer role for SEPI’s Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
SEPI is an interdisciplinary organization of professionals interested in approaches to psychotherapy that are not limited by a single orientation.
September 18, 2007.
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