Funding Opportunities
Walter Katkovsky Research Grants
The Walter Katkovsky Research Grants support research on the general topic of psychotherapy.
The Walter Katkovsky Research Grants support research on the general topic of psychotherapy. Research proposals should be directed to questions and hypotheses designed to improve our understanding based on theory or methods of how psychotherapy promotes behavioral, emotional, or cognitive changes. While the ultimate goal of the research should be to inform the psychotherapy process, its specific focus may be limited to an underlying assumption, hypothesis, or questions; and the actual design may be “clinical” or “experimental” in terms of subjects and procedures. That is, the research design may be a simulation of some aspect of the psychotherapy process (e.g., learning or exposure trials) and subjects may or may not be classified as “patients”.
The proposal must describe in detail the experimental methodology (i.e., hypotheses, subject selection, and measures of independent and dependent variables, including a description of the psychotherapy that must deal with life problems and emotional/behavioral reactions) and result in the collection of new data.
Eligibility
APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.
Applicants must:
- be psychologists up to 12 years of postdoctoral
- be affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational, or scientific institution, or governmental entity operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes
- have demonstrated competence and capacity to execute the proposed work
Application Instructions
Application Materials:
- project proposal
- project timeline
- full budget and justification
- CV
Evaluation Criteria
Applications will be evaluated on:
- quality, viability, and potential impact of the proposed project
- originality, innovation, and contribution to the field
- applicant’s demonstrated competence and capability to execute the proposed work
- criticality of funding for execution of work (particularly if part of a larger funded effort)
Please be advised that APF does not provide feedback to applicants on their proposals.
Please review our Program FAQs for important details on the application process.
Recent Recipient
Dr. Sarah Hope Lincoln
Case Western Reserve University
“Psychotherapy Social Skills Interventions for Adolescents”
Past Recipients
2024
Dr. Alice E. Coyne, American University
“Leveraging New Technologies to Optimize Psychotherapy Outcomes for Underserved Populations”
Dr. Kyle S. Minor, Indiana University
“SPARK-Healthy Sleep: A Digital Health Intervention to Promote Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive Change in Youth at Risk for Psychosis”
2023
Dr. Steven Bistricky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
“Resilience-Based Brief Psychotherapy for Underserved Injury Survivors: Factors Supporting Healthy Adaptation”
Dr. Sarah Hope Lincoln, Case Western Reserve University, “Psychotherapy Social Skills Interventions for Adolescents”
2022
Caroline Shanholtz, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
“Pilot Trial of an Integrated Care Treatment for Children (Aged 6-11) with PTSD”
Hadar Fisher, PhD, University of Haifa
“Emotional Rigidity as a Treatment-Specific Mechanism of Change for Major Depressive Disorder”
Jillian R. Scheer, PhD, Syracuse University
“Expressive writing therapy to reduce PTSD symptoms and hazardous drinking among trauma-exposed sexual minority women: A randomized controlled trial”
Kristel Thomassin, PhD, University of Guelph
“Child Psychotherapy Promotes Improvements in Functioning via Enhanced Physiological Regulation”
Michelle Rozenman, PhD, University of Denver
“Optimizing Inhibitory Learning in Exposure-Based Treatment for Anxious Youth”
Nili Solomonov, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
“Engage & Connect”: A Scalable Telehealth Psychotherapy Targeting Social Reward Processing and Behavioral Activation to Reduce Symptoms of Postpartum Depression”
2021
Mary Dozier, PhD, Mississippi State University
Shannon Diane Donofry, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Andres Eduardo Perez-Rojas, PhD, New Mexico State University
2020
Valentina Ivezaj, PhD, Yale University
Dana Tzur Bitan, PhD, Ariel University
2018
Hannah C. Levy, PhD, Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital
Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Indiana University at Bloomington
Joseph F. McGuire, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jennifer L. Wilson, PhD, and Robert Beck, PhD, South Texas Veterans Health Care System Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center
2017
Nicole E. Caporino, PhD, American University
Robert J. DeRubeis, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
David Mintz, MD, The Austen Riggs Center
Ivar Snorrason, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center
Michael Wheaton, PhD, Barnard College