Larry Davidson, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, has been chosen to receive the 2018 Teaching and Mentoring in Qualitative Inquiry Award from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association.
The award honors an individual who has a demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring within the field of qualitative inquiry. It will be presented at the Division 5 Award Symposium at the 2018 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco on Aug. 9-12.
Davidson has mentored numerous faculty members in the Yale Department of Psychiatry during his career. He has conducted groundbreaking research on the valuable roles people with serious mental illness and addictions can play in transforming behavioral health care. He has worked to develop and evaluate policies and programs to promote recovery, and he uses mixed qualitative and quantitative methods in his work.
The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health was founded in 2000. It works to transform behavioral health programs, agencies, and systems to be culturally responsive and reoriented to facilitating the recovery and social inclusion of the individuals, families, and communities they serve.
Davidson has been widely recognized for his work in the field of recovery, and is an expert on the interface of recovery from mental health and substance use disorders with membership in society.
In 2014 he was awarded the Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize, which recognizes “exceptional research and mentoring accomplishments in the area of serious mental illness.”
Davidson also works on a statewide level as Senior Policy Advisor for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. He is Editor of the American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.