Anthony Rinaldi awarded Patrick DeLeon Prize for young psychologists

Anthony Rinaldi

Division 55 of the American Psychological Association has awarded Anthony Rinaldi the Patrick DeLeon Prize for Young Psychologists. 

The prize awards graduate students or recent grads on the basis of a paper on the subject of psychopharmacology or the advancement of the prescriptive authority movement. 

Rinaldi is a doctoral student in the College of Education’s Counseling Psychology program. He won the award for his article “Prescriptive Authority and Counseling Psychology: Implications for Practitioners,” which was published in The Counseling Psychologist. The article argues for counseling psychology’s support of the prescriptive authority for psychologists movement, a controversial movement that advocates to train psychologists in prescribing psychotropic medications.