This award recognizes a distinguished career and enduring contribution to the application of psychology in the public interest. Richard M. Suinn has made outstanding contributions to the public interest through community service, leadership in professional affairs, and as an innovative pioneer. For the city of Fort Collins, Colorado he served as mayor guiding it to a new performing arts center architectural improvements in the downtown district, and expansion of the library. He was president of APA and the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy and chaired nearly every one of six APA governing boards. He has been a powerful voice toward empowerment of ethnic minorities, chairing the Board of Ethnic Minority Affairs and two major APA committees: the Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training and the Task Force on Enhancing Diversity. Finally, he pioneered the founding of sport performance enhancement services for athletes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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公共利益领域的心理学成就终身金奖：理查德·苏恩（Richard M. Suinn）。

该奖项旨在表彰在公共利益方面应用心理学的杰出事业和持久贡献。Richard M. Suinn通过社区服务，领导专业事务和创新先驱，为公共利益做出了杰出贡献。在科罗拉多州柯林斯堡市市长期间，他担任市长的职务，指导其对市区新的表演艺术中心进行建筑改进，并扩建图书馆。他曾担任APA和行为疗法促进协会主席，并主持了APA六个管理委员会中的几乎每个委员会。他一直是赋予少数民族权力的强有力的声音，主持了少数民族事务委员会和两个主要的APA委员会：少数民族征聘委员会，保留和培训以及增强多样性工作队。最后，他开创了为运动员提供运动表现增强服务的先河。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。