Congratulations to Jennifer Freyd, recent winner of the 2011 Outstanding Contributions to Science in Trauma Psychology Award given by the American Psychological Associations’s Division 56.
Freyd is a University of Oregon psychology professor and faculty affiliate of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. Her research incorporates cognitive, clinical, developmental and social / personality psychology as she explores the impacts of trauma, particularly betrayal trauma theory. The award recognizes distinguished contributions based on a particular discovery or for a sustained body of research and scholarship. Freyd is the fifth winner of the award.
See more about Freyd’s research in the Fall 2009 issue of CSWS Research Matters.