APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research

The APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research (until 2003 known as the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge) is a scientific award presented by the American Psychological Association "given to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology."

The 1997 award to John E. Exner raised a controversy, as it was seen as granting a professional endorsement to the Rorschach test, seen by some as pseudoscience.

List of recipients

 * 1979 Sol L. Garfield, Leopold Bellak, Harry Levinson
 * 1980 Leonard D. Eron
 * 1981 Carl Eisdorfer
 * 1982 Roy Schafer
 * 1983 Neal E. Miller
 * 1984 Norman Frederiksen
 * 1985 Albert Ellis
 * 1986 Edward Zigler
 * 1987 Mary D. S. Ainsworth, Hans H. Strupp
 * 1988 Herman Feifel
 * 1989 Allen E. Bergin
 * 1990 Manfred J. Meier
 * 1991 W. Grant Dahlstrom, Joseph D. Matarazzo
 * 1992 Leopold Bellak, Harry Levinson
 * 1993 Paul E. Meehl
 * 1994 John L. Holland
 * 1995 Kenneth I. Howard, Lester B. Luborsky
 * 1996 Paul Satz
 * 1997 John E. Exner, Samuel M. Turner
 * 1998/1999 Peter E. Nathan
 * 2000 Simon H. Budman
 * 2001 Marvin R. Goldfried
 * 2002 John D. Krumboltz
 * 2003 Theodore Millon, Stanley Sue
 * 2004 Robert J. Gatchel
 * 2005 Gail S. Goodman
 * 2006 Stephen M. Weiss
 * 2007 Bruce E. Wampold
 * 2008 Richard Rogers
 * 2009 Luciano L'Abate
 * 2010 Catherine E. Lord
 * 2011 Ronald R. Levant
 * 2012 Leslie S. Greenberg