Dr. Helen Farmer receives Lifetime Mentoring Award

Dr. Helen Farmer, Professor Emeritus, will receive the 2008 Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP)
Lifetime Mentoring Award at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting in Boston on August 16, 2008.  Dr. Farmer received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 1972 from the Universersity of California, Los Angeles and has been with the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois since 1974.

We congratulate Dr. Farmer on receiving this wonderful award.

LIFETIME MENTORING AWARD: This award for outstanding achievement in mentoring is given to acknowledge career contributions to Counseling Psychology via excellence in mentoring. This award is for professionals who have provided mentoring throughout their careers. There is no monetary prize associated with this award. There will be three to five awardees per year. Criteria for the Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award: (1) Nominated individuals must have made long-term contributions to counseling psychology via their mentoring activities. These contributions could be in a variety of arenas, for example in science, practice, leadership and administration, teaching and training, and/or recognition of excellence, (2) Nominated individuals should hold a degree in counseling psychology or a closely-related field, and/or have made demonstrable contributions to the field of counseling psychology through mentoring others, (3) Individuals must have provided outstanding mentoring to individuals working in the field of counseling psychology, and (4)While there is no requirement to this award for the number of years an individual has engaged in mentoring activities, given the award’s emphasis on “Lifetime Achievement,” it is expected that nominated individuals will demonstrate a commitment to mentoring activities during an extended length of time (i.e., 15+ years). http://www.div17.org/Newsletter/SCP_Newsletter_Spring_2008.pdf