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The Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant will support graduate students and early career researchers conducting innovative work focusing on the understanding, prevention and/or treatment of the consequences of exposure to traumatic events such as sexual assault, sexual harassment and/or rape. This grant is sponsored by APA Division 56: Division of Trauma Psychology. The grant provides funding for innovative research projects that contribute to the field of trauma psychology. Applications are evaluated on the quality, viability, and potential impact of the proposed project, originality and innovation, and the applicant's demonstrated competence to execute the proposed work. The program encourages applications from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.

The APF Division 49 Group Psychotherapy Grant supports innovative group psychotherapy research applied to small groups in a naturalistic setting. This grant focuses primarily on groups in a therapeutic context, including effectiveness of different approaches to group therapy. Although this will often involve studies of group psychotherapy, it may also include other groups with health implications such as support groups for smoking cessation or weight loss. In addition to the grant funds, the awardee receives a three-year membership to Division 49. Samples of appropriate topics include efficacy of group therapy for specific disorders, impact of member individual differences on effectiveness of group therapy, relative efficacy of different modes of therapy, and the role of group climate in the effectiveness of group therapy. Preference is given to early career psychologists (10 years or fewer postdoctoral) and to proposals which integrate group psychotherapy into the proposed research.