Thomas Achenbach

Professor Emeritus

Department of Psychiatry

1 South Prospect
UHC St. Joseph Room 3211
Burlington, VT 05401
United States

Alma mater(s)

1962: Yale University, BA Major: Psychology
1962-63: Heidelberg University, Major: History and Political Science
1966: University of Minnesota, Ph.D., Major: Psychology, Minor: Child Psychology

1975-1980 Research Psychologist, GS-15. Laboratory of Developmental Psychology National Institute of Mental Health.
1968-1975 Assistant to Associate Professor, Yale University Dept. of Psychology and Child Study Center, Co-principal Investigator, NIMH Research Grant HD-03008.
1970-1971 Director, Graduate Training Program in Developmental Psychology, and Director, NIMH Research Training Grant 5T01 MH-06759, Dept. of Psychology, Yale University.
1971-1972 Social Science Research Council Senior Faculty Fellowship for work with Professor Jean Piaget, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
1967-1968 Research Staff Psychologist, Dept. of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University, Co-Principal Investigator, NIMH Grant HD-MH-03008; research on intellectual development in normal, retarded, and disturbed children; clinical work in psychodiagnostics and psychotherapy.
1966-1967 NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University, Clinical training in psychodiagnostics and psychotherapy with children; research on learning strategies in normal and retarded children.
1963-1966 NIMH Predoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Research with Professor Norman Garmezy on child psychiatric symptomatology and with Professor Harold Stevenson on children’s learning strategies.

Angier Prize for Research in Psychology
B.A. summa cum laude & Honors with Exceptional Distinction
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (honorary)
American Men and Women of Science
Fellow of the American Psychological Association Divisions 7, 12, 37, and 53
Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association; University Scholar Award from the University of Vermont, 1991-92
Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association Section on Clinical Child Psychology, 1993
Institute for Scientific Information Most Highly Cited in World Psychiatry/Psychology Literature

Bio

1975-1980 Research Psychologist, GS-15. Laboratory of Developmental Psychology National Institute of Mental Health.
1968-1975 Assistant to Associate Professor, Yale University Dept. of Psychology and Child Study Center, Co-principal Investigator, NIMH Research Grant HD-03008.
1970-1971 Director, Graduate Training Program in Developmental Psychology, and Director, NIMH Research Training Grant 5T01 MH-06759, Dept. of Psychology, Yale University.
1971-1972 Social Science Research Council Senior Faculty Fellowship for work with Professor Jean Piaget, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
1967-1968 Research Staff Psychologist, Dept. of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University, Co-Principal Investigator, NIMH Grant HD-MH-03008; research on intellectual development in normal, retarded, and disturbed children; clinical work in psychodiagnostics and psychotherapy.
1966-1967 NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University, Clinical training in psychodiagnostics and psychotherapy with children; research on learning strategies in normal and retarded children.
1963-1966 NIMH Predoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Research with Professor Norman Garmezy on child psychiatric symptomatology and with Professor Harold Stevenson on children’s learning strategies.

Angier Prize for Research in Psychology
B.A. summa cum laude & Honors with Exceptional Distinction
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (honorary)
American Men and Women of Science
Fellow of the American Psychological Association Divisions 7, 12, 37, and 53
Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association; University Scholar Award from the University of Vermont, 1991-92
Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association Section on Clinical Child Psychology, 1993
Institute for Scientific Information Most Highly Cited in World Psychiatry/Psychology Literature