APTC AWARDS


Jennifer L. Callahan, Ph.D., ABPP
Friend of APTC Award

In recognition of your longstanding dedication & support for high standards of training & practice in professional psychology doctoral training clinics and for your outstanding leadership in directing the inaugural multi-site research study in APTC


Jennifer Callahan receives Friend
          of APTC AwardJennifer L. Callahan received the Friend of APTC Award for her outstanding leadership in directing the inaugural multi-site research study in APTC. The project led to a publication entitled, “Introducing the Association of Psychology Training Clinic’s Collaborative Research Network: A Study on Client Expectancies,” authored by Callahan, Jennifer L.; Gustafson, Scott A.; Misner, Jessica B.; Paprocki, Christine M.; Sauer, Eric M.; Saules, Karen A., Schwartz, Jennifer L., Swift, Joshua K., Whiteside, Douglas M., Wierda, Kathryn E., & Wise, Erica H., (2014) and published in Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 8, 95-104. Six APTC training clinics participated in the study. Without Dr. Callahan’s strong leadership, expertise, and passion the idea of a practice research network would have likely remained just another good idea.  She made that idea and reality and she is truly a Friend of APTC.




Lee Cooper, Ph.D.
Jean Spruill Achievement Award

In recognition of your longstanding active involvement in APTC, commitment to excellence in training, dedication to innovative and best practices in doctoral psychology training clinics, and inspirational leadership

Lee Cooper receives
        Jean Spruill Award
Lee Cooper was a founding member of APTC and was president from 2001 to 2003. He developed the association’s first strategic plan and was instrumental in building the structure of the organization. Dr. Cooper is a frequent presenter at APTC meetings and a regular contributor to the newsletter. He received a Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology Varda Shoham Clinical Scientist Training Grant in 2014 and used the funds to launch OwlOutcomes, a routine outcome monitoring system developed by APTC member Corey Fagan, in the Psychological Services Center at Virginia Tech. Dr. Cooper’s outstanding leadership, commitment, and integrity are matched only by his humility. Thus, it is with true delight that we honored him with the Jean Spruill Achievement Award at our annual meeting.




University of Washington
Psychological Services and Training Center (Corey Fagan, Ph.D.)
First Annual Clinic Innovation Award:
OwlOutcomes

This new award was innovated by Heidi Zetzer.  It includes a $500 check for the Director’s clinic and an invitation to present on the  innovation at the APTC awards presentation at the Annual Meeting.


Owl Outcomes Clinic Innovation AwardCorey Fagan and other collaborators developed a premier routine outcome monitoring system, called OwlOutcomes.  Corey brought OwlOutcomes into member clinics for beta testing, including training clinics at UCLA, UNC, Seattle Children’s Hospital Outpatient Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, and BU’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. The initial testing resulted in installation of OwlOutcomes in those clinics as well as Virginia Tech, USC, and George Washington University.  OwlOutcomes was selected for the extensive benefits to clients, graduate students, clinic directors, and the science and practice of professional psychology, making life easier for trainees, supervisors, researchers, and administrators, and expected to have a significant impact on research, training, and practice in the field.

From Corey Fagen:  The literature is clear that tracking patient progress using evidence-based assessment measures improves outcomes and optimizes treatment times. The challenge was how to implement routine outcome tracking in our clinics in a way that wouldn’t burden either the clients or the trainees. At the time- about 8 years ago- most measures were still paper and pencil or proprietary, making scoring, graphing and analyzing the data difficult.  Jon Hauser, my co-founder and the IT brain behind the OwlOutcomes software, and I dreamed of developing a software tool that would make routine outcome monitoring easy and automatic. We’ve spent the last 3 years beta-testing the software and piloting version 1.0. The feedback from Seattle Children’s Hospital and the other clinic directors has been invaluable. We now have a tool that has both clinical utility and potential as a research tool. We envision the day when we have enough clinics using the Owl for routine outcome monitoring that we can pool data and form a practice research network.

To find out more about OwlOutcomes go to: www.owloutcomes.com
For demos go to:  info@owloutcomes.com