The Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research is given to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology. The 2021 recipient is Joseph P. Gone, for "extraordinary contributions to the application of psychological knowledge for American Indian peoples. A central problem defining his scholarship is the (post)colonial predicament of psychological services in ‘Indian Country.’ On one hand, enduring mental health disparities underscore the need for more and better mental health services. On the other, conventional psychosocial approaches to professional treatment depend on concepts, categories, principles, and practices routinely identified by community authorities and formal research as culturally foreign and experientially irrelevant for many American Indians. In response, Gone has elaborated promising new approaches to making mental health services more accessible, culturally appropriate, and demonstrably effective for alleviating debilitating distress among American Indians through three lines of research. He has documented how Indigenous peoples locally construe various facets of mind, self, identity, emotion, social relations, communication, wellness, dysfunction, and healing (i.e., ethnopsychological investigations). He has demonstrated ways in which these local construals converge with and diverge from standard approaches in professional mental health practice (i.e., assessments of cultural commensurability). And he has formulated ways that applied psychologists can use these understandings to partner with Indigenous communities to implement and evaluate alternative interventions that remain culturally consonant and robustly therapeutic (i.e., therapeutic innovations).”

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应用研究杰出专业贡献奖：Joseph Patrick Gone。

应用研究杰出专业贡献奖授予在应用心理学领域取得重要发现或发展的心理学家。2021 年的获奖者是 Joseph P. Gone，他“为美国印第安人应用心理知识做出了非凡贡献。定义他的学术研究的一个核心问题是‘印度国家’心​​理服务的（后）殖民困境。” 一方面，持久的心理健康差异凸显了对更多更好的心理健康服务的需求。另一方面，专业治疗的传统心理社会方法依赖于概念、类别、原则、以及社区当局和正式研究经常认定的做法在文化上是陌生的，与许多美洲印第安人的经验无关。作为回应，Gone 制定了有希望的新方法，通过三项研究，使心理健康服务更容易获得、文化上合适，并且明显有效地减轻了美国印第安人的衰弱性痛苦。他记录了土著人民如何在当地解释思想、自我、身份、情感、社会关系、沟通、健康、功能障碍和康复的各个方面（即民族心理学调查）。他展示了这些地方解释与专业心理健康实践中的标准方法（即文化可通约性评估）的融合和分歧方式。