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authors: Overholser, James C.
title: The 5th Annual psyche awards: celebrating excellence in scholarship
date: 2022-04-06
journal: J Contemp Psychother
DOI: 10.1007/s10879-022-09540-z
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The Psyche Awards were developed to recognize the best journal articles published during the previous year. Each award confronts a specific topic within the field of mental health care, identifying articles that integrate the science and practice of psychology. For the current awards, 161 journals were screened, and 223 relevant articles were identified. The papers were then narrowed down to 46 papers distributed across 11 award categories. A panel of four expert judges read each article and rated all papers for their contribution to the field. The current award categories highlight some of the best articles published during 2021, capturing important information about psychological assessment, treatment of depression, working with suicidal clients, technology-assisted psychotherapy, the impact of Covid-19 on mental health, lessons from a review of history, recent innovations in the field, and strategies to expand the integration of science and practice.

Mental health care is advanced through a sincere integration of science and practice. The Boulder model (Raimy, 1950) espoused ideals for encouraging graduate training to combine clinical experience with research skills. Over the years, the Boulder model has struggled to remain relevant to the weekly workload of most university faculty members. Different jobs pull for different activities. The life of an academic is guided by pressure to publish quality research studies, obtain external grant funding and gain a reputation at national or international levels. In contrast, the average clinician aims to develop a full caseload, establish a regular referral network, and create a local reputation that enhances their referrals (Overholser, 2007) . It is rare for one professional to integrate strong in both research and clinical skills. To qualify as a scientist-practitioner, the professional must remain active in both clinical practice and scholarly activities (Overholser, 2010) . Thus, the Psyche Awards aim to protect the ideals of the scientist-practitioner model, finding, highlighting, and recognizing the valuable contributions that can be made when a published journal article integrates a strong scientific foundation with actual clinical relevance.

The Psyche Awards were developed in 2017 (Overholser & Beale, 2018) to recognize the important contributions that are made each year, as seen in published journal articles that help to improve our understanding or treatment of individuals with some form of mental illness. Over the past five Psychotherapy remains the treatment of choice for many types of mental health problems. Advances in mental health care rely on the scientific contributions that are reported in recent journal article publications. The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy encourages the publications of articles that connect innovative research that remains aligned with established clinical practice. Many journals in the mental health field help to promote scholarship that is relevant to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Anyone involved in academic publishing is aware of the massive amount of work that goes into every published article. Colleagues who publish useful information in journal articles are the unsung heroes of mental health care.

Some professions have award ceremonies that advertise and publicize their recent accomplishments. These award ceremonies are most visible in the fields of sports and entertainment. In contrast, most mental health experts work in relative isolation, either producing important works of scholarship or helping clients improve their lives. Despite hard work and great effort, mental health experts may go largely unnoticed. years, the manuscript screening procedures have evolved and been clarified into six interrelated criteria described below.

First, active members of the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy's editorial board were invited to nominate high quality journal articles that were published during the previous year. The nominated papers could not be written by the board members, their colleagues or collaborators, or their graduate student trainees.

Second, eligible papers were published during the previous year in a scholarly journal. There are a wide range of reputable journals that publish articles on topics related to psychological assessment or psychotherapy. At most journals, the peer review process involves close scrutiny by expert reviewers, and authors are expected to make extensive revisions before a manuscript is deemed acceptable for publication. True academic journals are different from the explosion of predatory journals that have developed in recent years (Sorokowski et al., 2017) , which often charge authors hundreds of dollars to publish their work, with minimal attention given to the quality of the article. Further, books and book chapters follow a different path toward publication and therefore are not eligible for a Psyche Award.

Third, eligible articles focus on the assessment or treatment of patients who are struggling with some form of mental illness. Studies were excluded if they relied on data using a sample of convenience, including college students, high school students, community samples, anonymous online surveys or mTurk data collection procedures. Previous authors (Arnett, 2008; Henrich et al., 2010) have criticized the reliance on WEIRD samples, whereby the research only applies to samples collected from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic societies. Because of the limits when generalizing to a different sample, the findings from many psychology research studies are likely to only apply to undergraduate college students (Stroebe et al., 2018) and the findings may be less likely to generalize to clinical populations (Stroebe et al., 2018) . In our efforts to improve psychological assessment and intervention, it remains important to conduct research on patients who are struggling with a medical illness or a psychiatric disorder (Overholser, 2012) .

Fourth, the field of psychotherapy is advanced through research that focuses on the mind and mental processes (Overholser, 2003) . Some investigators focus their research on topics of current interest (Overholser, 2014) , and some cutting-edge research on innovative biological treatments or neuroanatomical measurements can be useful. However, psychotherapy research that focuses on biological processes or sociocultural issues is beyond the scope of the awards.

Fifth, in order to advance the field of psychotherapy, qualified research studies should be closely aligned with of Family Therapy, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal possible revisions to the current diagnostic system. The award recognizes the important insights shared in the published article, helping to refine or revise the professional approach to psychiatric diagnosis, psychological terminology, nosology or specific diagnostic categories. The ideal paper captures useful ideas that confront important aspects of psychopathology and help the reader to refine or change their understanding of mental illness. The nominees are …. Barlow Psychiatric diagnosis is an important area, but it derived from medical diagnosis, and many aspects of a categorical approach to diagnosis do not align with psychological problems. Despite the importance of psychiatric diagnosis and the potential changes in the current nosology, there was no clear consensus as to what, if any changes would improve psychiatric diagnosis. Instead of implying there was no winner in this category, it seems more appropriate to respect the varied opinions about psychiatric diagnosis and different views as to the optimal direction for new diagnostic systems. It remains unclear as to whether these changes are necessary and whether nomenclature changes would be an improvement over the current system. Therefore, all mental health providers are encouraged to read these papers and continue exploring these topics.

This award recognizes valuable research on some aspect of anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders are commonly found in community settings as well as many mental health care centers. The article integrates the science and practice of psychology, and provides valuable insights into the minds of clients who are struggling with worry, anxiety, or panic. The ideal paper examines psychiatric patients who have been 1. Refining Strategies for Assessment of Psychological Problems: This award highlights useful information about psychological assessment, whether covering general strategies or specific instruments. The award recognizes the important advances in psychological assessment that improve the ability to understand or measure various psychological issues or processes. The article helps to advance knowledge and provides valuable insights into the mindset of individuals who are struggling with psychological problems. The goal is to identify papers that provide guidance for psychological assessment that are based on sound research and the findings are directly relevant to clinical practice. The nominees are ….

Abramovitch And the winner is …. David Dematteo and Mark Olver for their informative review of the Revised Psychopathy Checklist and its use in legal consultation. The authors used an engaging style of cross-examination questions and answers to explore the benefits and limitations of the assessment tool. According to Dr. Dematteo (personal communication, February 22, 2022) : "The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) has received considerable attention from researchers and practitioners because of its relationship to several outcomes relevant to the criminal justice system. But there's disagreement regarding the PCL-R's utility in certain contexts. My co-author and I previously wrote separate papers in which we expressed opposing viewpoints about the PCL-R, and this paper stemmed from that disagreement. We were asked to write this paper as an 'adversarial collaboration' for a special issue of the Journal of Personality Assessment. What we discovered is that we agree on most things related to the PCL-R, and our disagreement was circumscribed. We hope this paper will serve as a 'state of the PCL-R' for those interested in this measure." Murphy, S., and colleagues. (2021). Who benefits from a cognitive vs. behavioral approach to treating depression? A pilot study or prescriptive predictors. Behavior Therapy: 52, 1433-1448.

And the winner is …. Marketa Chiarova and colleagues for their comprehensive review of common psychological treatments for depression. Using a network meta-analysis to combine direct and indirect evidence, the authors showed that a mix of current interventions were equally effective in helping clients overcome their emotional struggles. According to Dr. Chiarova (personal communication, February 25, 2022): "We know that psychotherapies are effective in treating adult depression. For current research, it is thus important to focus on answering the question how they work and what components are crucial for effectiveness. Answering these questions, we can continue with optimising existing treatments by focusing on the elements which deserve the most attention, and creating interventions which need less time and resources, which in turn may help shortening waiting lists and increasing accessibility for individuals who need care, especially in contexts where mental health care resources are scarce. With these aims in mind, we compared the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring only, behavioral activation only, and their combination (i.e., full cognitivebehavioral therapy). All these treatments were effective in comparison to treatment-as-usual and waiting list condition, but no evidence of difference was found between these three treatments. This means that patient's and therapist's preferences, predictors of differential effectiveness (to be discovered in further research) and accessibility of psychotherapy in given context may play a role in choosing treatment for individual patients. In addition, we also identified a substantial gap in literature: The quality of evidence for the performance of cognitive restructuring was limited and low. Therefore, conclusions can be drawn about the comparison between behavioral activation only and cognitivebehavioral therapy, but more research is needed about the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring only." 5. Understanding and Reducing the Risk for Suicide: The award focuses on suicide risk and how vulnerable people can be cared for in a supportive manner. Suicide remains a major public health concern, as the rates have been gradually increasing in the United States and other countries. Research on suicide risk may shed light in strategies for intervention or prevention of suicide in vulnerable individuals. Papers on suicide risk can confront the assessment, treatment, or prevention of suicidal tendencies. The nominees are …. diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and the research strives to either improve assessment strategies or treatment applied to the anxiety disorder. The nominees are ….

Dean Reid, J., Laws, K., Drummond, L., Vismara, M., Grancini, B., Mpavaenda, D., & Fineberg, N. (2021) . Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 106, 152,223.

Again, there was no clear stand-out contribution in this category. The panel of judges approved of all four nominated papers, but there was disagreement over which article made the most important contributions to the field. Therefore, it is recommended that all four of the nominated papers deserve an honorable mention and should be read by researchers and clinicians who work with clients that may be struggling with anxiety.

This award recognizes valuable research on emotional problems and depression. The award recognizes the important contribution made in an article that improves the understanding and treatment of depression. The publication integrates the science and practice of psychology and provides valuable insights into the struggles commonly experienced by clients as they deal with depression. The ideal paper confronts depression in a clinical sample, and helps to sharpen our understanding of assessment, treatment or prevention strategies that could be applied in actual clinical practice. The nominees are ….

Ciharova And the winner is …. Amanda Roberts and colleagues for their comprehensive review of substance use patterns during the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors summarize 45 recent studies that revealed the significant pattern of increase in alcohol and drug use since the start of the pandemic, and identify risk factors that were found to elevate this risk of abuse. According to Dr. Roberts (personal communication, February 23, 2022): " The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a phase of "lock-downs". Members of society were faced with significant periods of time in their own home with limited social interactions since bars, restaurants, gyms, cafes and other venues closed. The impact of quarantine is known to have many psychological implications and stressors including implications on health-related behaviours such as substance and alcohol use, impacting on the healthcare services who are required to respond to this. Our systematic review was the result of a cluster of academics, practitioners and clinicians coming together (online) to work on this project during the first "lock-down". Our aim was to document and interpret the frequency and severity of alcohol and other substance use during that time that may indicate further clinical implications. The evidence suggested a trend towards increased alcohol consumption and a clear trend towards increased use of other substances use during the COVID-19 pandemic. We concluded that increased targeting and evidence-based interventions will be essential in the period which follows the pandemic, to improve the quality of life for individuals and families, but also to prevent additional costs to society and health systems." 7. Technology-Assisted Psychotherapy: This award confronts the many creative ways that psychotherapy can be enhanced through the use of technology. The recent pandemic has created many opportunities for telepsychology procedures, and technology-assisted psychotherapy have become commonplace. Technology can facilitate improvements in psychological assessment, daily tracking, remote delivery of services, and asynchronous forms of intervention (Overholser, 2013) . The award recognizes useful ideas And the winner is …. Erin Ward-Ciesielski and Shireen Rizvi for their critical review of psychiatric hospitalization when working with suicidal clients. Despite the standard practice to recommend hospitalization, the authors effectively argued that psychiatric hospitalization is more likely to have detrimental effects of the client. According to Dr. Ward-Ciesielski (personal communication, February 24, 2022): "This paper came from the intersection of two issues. First, looking at potential treatment harms is still something we haven't adequately integrated into our treatment development work as a field, including long-standing practices that have not been rigorously evaluated. This leads to the second issue: we had heard for years that there was no data supporting hospitalization as effective for suicide and our clinical experiences suggested it was actually harmful for some people. Despite this discussion happening in multiple spaces, we've found relatively limited research seeking to answer this specific question. Therefore, we wanted to emphasize and summarize the concerns people have been trying to highlight for many years and encourage more people to study hospitalization and its possible harms."

6. Impact of the Covid Pandemic on mental health symptoms or its treatment: This award highlights that changes that have been forced upon the world because of the worldwide pandemic. Since the start of the Covid pandemic, there have been numerous reports of increased anxiety (Santabarbara et al., 2021) and depression in community samples. Articles eligible for the Psyche Award confronted mental illness symptoms or treatments and how these issues have been modified because of the current pandemic. The nominees are ….

Alzueta, E., Perrin, P., Baker, F., Caffarra, S., Ramos-Usuga, D., Yuksel, D., & Arango-Lasprilla, J. (2021). How Omylinska-Thurston, J., Karkou, V., Parsons, A., Nair, K., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Starkey, J., … & Sharma, S. (2021) . Arts for the Blues: The development of a new evidence-based creative group psychotherapy for depression. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 21(3), 597-607. Penney, S. (2021) . Innovations in violence risk assessment: What aviation can teach us about assessing and managing risk for rare and serious outcomes. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 77, 101, 710. And the winner is …. Stephanie Penney (2021) for her thoughtful review of violence risk assessment and the benefits of thinking metaphorically. The article provides an interesting shift of perspective that helps stimulate creative ideas related to risk management. According to Dr. Penney (personal communication, February 22, 2022) : "The idea grew from Monahan and Steadman's 1996 article comparing the fields of meteorology and mental health law. I considered that article to be a seminal foundation in the field of forensic psychology/psychiatry, but often thought that the analogy was imperfect and could be strengthened with a closer comparison to a field like aviation where risks for adverse outcomes are intensively managed, and management plans continuously evaluated; this bears more similarity to what we do with patients receiving forensic care and who are actively supervised by a forensic mental health tribunal. This was a large undertaking and a that large amount of work went into this paper. For example, the aviation safety manual, published by the International Civil Aviation Organization and considered to be the 'Bible' of aviation safety, is about 300 pages and certainly intimidating for a novice such as myself trying to educate myself in this field! But it was really fascinating. I also conducted 2 phone interviews with actual safety operations managers who work with the ICAO to ensure I was interpreting some of the concepts correctly; these individuals were also kind enough to share samples of actual risk assessments conducted by their teams. I am a firm believer that having a wide scope, and looking for knowledge outside (and sometimes far outside) your particular field of study can yield fresh insights and new ways of looking at old problems."

10. Integration of the Science and Practice of Psychology: This award highlights ideas and strategies for respecting the ideals of the Boulder model (Raimy, 1950) . The award recognizes the important contribution made in an article that emphasizes the synergistic value of science and practice, when truly integrated as the foundation for psychotherapy. The award highlights the value of research while maintaining a strong focus on clinical applications that are useful for guiding psychotherapy sessions. Ideally, the article inspires faculty members and their students to remain active in both research and practice throughout their careers (Overholser, 2007) . The ideal paper confronts the or strategies that are likely to improve the field of mental health treatment and should remain in use even after the pandemic has subsided. The nominees are ….

Cullen, A., Dowling, N., Segrave, R., Carter, A., & Yücel, M. (2021) . Exposure therapy in a virtual environment: Validation in obsessive compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 80, 102, 404. de Boer, K., Muir, S., Silva, S., Nedeljkovic, M., Seabrook, E., Thomas, N., & Meyer, D. (2021) . Videoconferencing psychotherapy for couples and families: A systematic review. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 47(2), 259-288. Geller, S. (2021) . Cultivating online therapeutic presence: Strengthening therapeutic relationships in teletherapy sessions. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 34(3-4) , 687-703.

Helps, S., & Grinney, M. (2021). Synchronous digital couple and family psychotherapy: A meta-narrative review. Journal of Family Therapy, 43(2), 185-214.

And the winner is …. Alison Cullen and colleagues for their innovative use of virtual reality technology to assist in the exposure therapy intervention. The article includes several images to help readers appreciate the realistic scenes used in the exposure plan. According to Dr. Murat Yücel (personal communication, February 24, 2022): "Virtual reality is an amazing technology that allows us to tap into emotional and motivational triggers of mental health and addictive disorders. Here, we spend enormous hours optimising the virtual reality environment (e.g., lots of interactive elements to immerse the participant), the psychophysiological measurements (e.g., bluetooth connectivity to improve freedom of movement), user interface, and installing a co-created virtual reality system into a busy and crowded hospital system. It was all worth it! We were able to put patients into realistic high-risk (emotional/symptom triggering) situations that trigger relevant anxiety profiles, but do so in a safe manner and while maintaining the therapeutic alliance. This presents enormous opportunities for novel and scalable treatment options going forward." 9. Innovative Ideas in the field of mental illness. This award highlights articles that provide new ideas or confront controversial topics in the field. The award recognizes valuable innovations and creative ideas that can help to expand the strategies that are used by mental health practitioners. The ideal paper proposes creative solutions to difficult problems or may advance the field through constructive criticism. The nominees are ….

Ayres, J. (2021). A fish keeper's life lessons: Implications for resilience promotion. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 56(5), 311-318. Dalal, F. (2021) . CBF: Cognitive behavioral fallacies. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 41(8), 580-592. Braslow, J. (2021) . Psychosis without meaning: Creating modern clinical psychiatry, 1950 to 1980 . Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 45(3), 429-455. Handerer, F., Kinderman, P., Timmermann, C., & Tai, S. (2021 . How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers. History of Psychiatry, 32(1), 37-51. Scull, A. (2021) . American psychiatry in the new millennium: A critical appraisal. Psychological Medicine, 51, 2762 -2770 . Weiss, K., & Dube, A. (2021 . What ever happened to Nostalgia (the diagnosis)? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 209(9) , 622-627.

And the winner is …. Andrew Scull for his willingness to confront a mix of issues that have disrupted the optimal care for the mentally ill. His review paper presents an assortment of financial and political issues that have disrupted modernday psychiatry, including the reasons behind deinstitutionalization and the irresponsible emphasis on psychotropic medications. According to Dr. Scull (personal communication, February 22, 2022) : " I often think that those who don't know their history are like patients with no long-term memory, really handicapped in making sense of the world. 'American Psychiatry in the New Millennium' derives from many years of work trying to understand the history of psychiatry, and what psychiatrists have done for and to their patients. I'm keen to bring that history to the attention of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, for both practitioners and researchers in both fields. I like to think both can benefit from the broader perspective a historian can bring to understanding the contemporary scene."

Many important and useful articles were published during 2021. The present award paper has helped to highlight 46 papers with nine articles deemed best in their category. The ideal articles integrate the science and practice of psychology, and this remains a difficult task for most mental health professionals. Time is limited and every job has responsibilities that force the professional to spend most of their work time either as a clinician, focused on the supervision and the provision of clinical services, or the academics who devote their careers to teaching and conducting high quality research. It is the rare professional who manages to integrate the science and practice of the field.

One of the nominated papers (Perez-Rojas et al., 2021) conducted a survey of counseling psychology faculty members. Results showed that only 43.8% of the faculty members continued to conduct psychotherapy themselves, even though the majority (76.7%) were licensed to practice psychology and most (58.9%) continued to supervise graduate students in the provision of psychotherapy. Among those core issues, and challenges scholars or clinicians to integrate the scientific method with the realities of actual clinical practice. The nominees are …. (2), 313-323.

And the winner is …. Charlie Gelso, Clara Hill and Dennis Kivlighan for their willingness to confront the differences between practitioners and researchers, while keeping a focus on possible pathways toward true integration. The article describes a campus psychology training clinic as an ideal location for conducting applied clinical research. Because their careers have been devoted to the scientistpractitioner model, their thoughtful advice is recommended for all faculty in clinical and counseling psychology as well as their trainees. According to Dr. Gelso (personal communication, February 23, 2022): " Throughout our careers, we have struggled to understand how science (especially empirical research) and practice can be mutually enhancing. We have always felt that they can be so, but we also realized from early on that this was by no means an easy matter. In so many ways, the two (science and practice) came from different worlds and were worlds apart. Our paper represented our efforts over many years at understanding the disconnects and figuring out ways to reduce them. The second part of the paper shows steps we have taken at our psychotherapy clinic to integrate the two. The contradictions and disconnects between research and practice will always exist, and we need continual efforts to foster their mutual enhancement." 11. Lessons learned from the history of mental illness. This award highlights the valuable lessons that can be learned through a thoughtful review of historical trends. Over time, mental illness has been treated using a mixture of strategies, some that were helpful and others that seem quite dangerous. Many of the ineffective or dangerous interventions may be forgotten. However, important lessons can be learned from mistakes made in past theories or historical treatments. The nominees are …. that had discontinued all clinical practice, there was a sentiment that clinical practice would be disruptive on their scholarly productivity. This seems to be a common misunderstanding or frequent rationalization, because remaining active in clinical practice can greatly enhance a faculty member's teaching, research, and career satisfaction (Overholser, 2019).

Quite a few papers deserve recognition for their contributions to the field. However, some useful journal articles did not align with any specific award category and therefore were not included in the current review process. For example, Barsness (2021) conducted an interesting qualitative study that explained the common therapeutic strategies used as part of relational psychoanalysis. Barsness conducted interviews with 16 psychoanalysts and identified seven core strategies used in their therapy sessions. The strategies focused on issues and themes that can be found in many other schools of therapy, and the article may help to reduce some of the boundary debates between therapists who were trained in one school versus another.

The Psyche Awards require a massive investment of time from the editorial staff. The process involves screening more than 2,000 published articles, reading more than 200 published articles, and evaluating in detail the top 46 papers. However, it seems important for the nominated authors to receive a bit of respect and acknowledgment for their valuable contribution to the field. Further, it can be useful for others to use the award paper to identify some of the most useful articles that were published during the previous year. Ideally, the Psyche Awards will continue to show the respect earned by these most valuable papers.

Editorial Postscript: It takes a massive amount of work to publish a scholarly journal each year. As editor-in-chief, I am thankful for every author that submits their work for possible publication in the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. Even when a manuscript is deemed not suitable for publication, I remain appreciative of the time, energy and determination that is involved in preparing and submitting a manuscript. In terms of processing the manuscripts, I have a skilled panel of experts who share their time and knowledge by serving on the editorial board for the journal. These mental health experts review several manuscripts each year, and shared their views of the strengths and weaknesses of the paper. I am especially appreciative of my panel of judges who read each nominated paper and provided rank order lists within each award category, and Dr. Lauren Fisher for serving as guest editor of special manuscripts and editorials. Finally, I am thankful for the numerous ad hoc reviewers who have received manuscripts during the past year. The list of reviewers includes mental health providers from a wide range of countries and academic backgrounds. I want

thank the recent ad hoc reviewers: Jaqueline Abate

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