Deadline: 1 November 2019
Applications are open for Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grants Program to encourage the study of LGBT family psychology and therapy through its support of promising young investigators whose graduate research is oriented toward issues in this general area.
APF is a grant-making foundation that funds early career psychologists and graduate students using psychology to solve important problems and improve people’s lives.
Program Goals
- Encourage talented students to orient their careers toward engaging LGBT family issues through basic and/or applied research.
- Advance the understanding of problems faced by LGBT families including those associated with cultural, racial, socioeconomic and family structure diversity
- Advance the understanding of successful coping mechanisms including sources of support and resilience for family members
- Advance the understanding of clinical issues and interventions in the domain of LGBT
APF makes grants in the following areas
- Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g. serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged).
- Preventing violence.
- Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity).
- Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and socioeconomic status).
- Treating serious mental illness.
- Studying gifted children and adolescents.
- Examining human reproductive behaviors.
- Exploring child psychology.
Funding Information
$11,000 grant for empirical and applied research focused on lesbian, gay and bisexual family psychology and lesbian, gay and bisexual and transgender family therapy
Eligibility Criteria
- Advanced graduate student, in good standing, endorsed by supervising professor.
- Demonstrated commitment to LGBT family issues.
- IRB approval must be received from host institution before funding can be awarded if human participants are involved.
- APF welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender and geography.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/scrivner?tab=1