The 7th Annual Psyche Awards: Honoring the Most Valuable Papers in Mental Health Care

Scholarly publications play a vital role in the advancement of psychotherapy, as a creative treatment strategy and as an empirically supported approach. The best scholarly articles integrate scientific methodology and clinical practice. Unfortunately, many mental health professionals devote their work responsibilities to one domain or the other, choosing to become academic researchers or full-time clinicians. The Psyche Awards were developed to highlight the most valuable journal articles that were published during the previous year. A total of 168 journals were screened to identify 128 interesting and useful articles, which were then sorted into 13 award categories. The 53 nominated papers were reviewed by a panel of four judges to identify the most valuable article in each topical area.