Walter Katkovsky Research Grant

The Walter Katkovsky Research Grant, funded by the American Psychological Foundation, supports innovative research in psychotherapy aimed at enhancing behavioral, emotional, and cognitive outcomes. Grants of up to $22,500 are available for early-career psychologists and graduate students who demonstrate the capacity to execute their proposed methodologies. This initiative encourages diverse applicants to explore new insights into psychotherapy processes, promoting a deeper understanding of mental health interventions.

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.
The Walter Katkovsky Research Grants support research on the general topic of psychotherapy.
APF plans to award two grants of up to $22,500 each. The Walter Katkovsky Research Grants support research on the general topic of psychotherapy. Research proposals should be directed to questions and hypotheses designed to improve our understanding based on theory or methods of how psychotherapy promotes behavioral, emotional, or cognitive changes. While the ultimate goal of the research should be to inform the psychotherapy process, its specific focus may be limited to an underlying assumption, hypothesis, or questions; and the actual design may be “clinical” or “experimental” in terms of subjects and procedures. That is, the research design may be a simulation of some aspect of the psychotherapy process (e.g., learning or exposure trials) and subjects may or may not be classified as “patients”.
The proposal must describe in detail the experimental methodology (i.e., hypotheses, subject selection, and measures of independent and dependent variables, including a description of the psychotherapy that must deal with life problems and emotional/behavioral reactions) and result in the collection of new data.

Eligibility

Applicants must:be psychologists up to 12 years of postdoctoral
be affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational, or scientific institution, or governmental entity operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes
have demonstrated competence and capacity to execute the proposed workInternational applicants from countries that have diplomatic relations with the United States and who meet the other eligibility requirements may apply for APF funding.