November 6, 2006
NSU Professor Linda Carter Sobell to Receive Betty Ford Award from Association for Medical education and Research in Substance Abuse
Linda Carter Sobell, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Director of Clinical Training at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Center for Psychological Studies, has been selected as the winner of the 2006 Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) Betty Ford Award.
“The Executive Board could not be more delighted to have such an outstanding recipient,” said AMERSA President Dr. Richard Saitz of Dr. Sobell. “This award is given to an individual who has made a significant impact on the field of alcohol and drug abuse, particularly with regards to women’s issues, substance abuse education and recovery. We are very proud to be able to recognize her valuable and internationally renowned contributions to the substance abuse field.”
Sobell received the award November 3 at AMERSA’s 30th anniversary gala reception at the prestigious Cosmos Club in Washington DC. She also delivered the plenary presentation titled “Self-Change: Processes and Implications for the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors” at AMERSA’s national meeting in Washington DC the same weekend.
Sobell, who also serves as Co-Director of NSU’s Guided Self-Change clinic, had previously worked for 17 years as a Senior Scientist at the Addiction Research Foundation (Canada) and a Professor at the University of Toronto.
She is known nationally and internationally for her work on the assessment and treatment of addictions, particularly brief motivational interventions, the process of self-change, and assessment instruments. She is past President of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy and of the Society of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association, serves on the editorial board of seven professional journals, holds a Diplomate in Behavioral Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association.
Sobell has received numerous awards including the Norman E. Zinberg Memorial Award from Harvard University, the Brady/Schuster Award for outstanding behavioral science research in psychopharmacology and substance abuse from the American Psychological Association Division 28, and the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy’s Outstanding Service Award. Her research has been supported by grants from several different federal agencies.
She has had extensive consultation and training experience having given over 200 invited presentations and clinical workshops/institutes nationally and internationally, over 250 articles and book chapters, and six books.
