Recognizing Excellence in Clinical Psychology: Student Scholarship and Early Career Advocacy Psychologist Awards

Recognition of Early Career Psychologists

ABCP recognizes early career psychologists who achieved board certification within the last year. The Early Career Psychologist Advocacy Award honors early career psychologists whose advocacy efforts have had a positive impact on policy, law, public reform, communities, and/or institutional change. Advocacy efforts may be demonstrated through the development of strategic alliances for the purpose of effecting change; organizing diverse affiliates (including institutions and agencies) for the purpose of a common cause; development and implementation of action plans for targeted change or progress toward a social, political, economic, or cultural goal; and evaluation of the effectiveness of advocacy efforts. Please visit the ABCP Awards, Grants & Scholarships webpage to learn more.

Our 2026 recipient of this award is Jared Boot-Haury, PsyD, MBA, ABPP:

Jared Boot-Haury, PsyD, MBA, ABPP, is a Board-Certified Specialist in Clinical Psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco, where they provide psychological assessment for autism and ADHD in adults. Dr. Boot-Haury is also an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist Supervisor and WPATH Standards of Care v8 Certified Mentor. Their advocacy focuses on advancing affirming, ethical, and evidence-informed mental health care for LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities through clinical practice, research, professional leadership, and policy change. They have held national leadership roles in LGBTQ+ health advocacy, including serving as Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, where they contributed to organizational policy statements addressing asexual-affirming care, consensual non-monogamy, interstate licensure compacts, transgender and gender-diverse healthcare, and prescribing psychology. Dr. Boot-Haury has also contributed to advocacy through APA Division 44, including efforts related to Veterans Health Administration coverage of gender-affirming surgeries, and through research-to-policy translation focused on improving LGBTQ+ cultural competency training for healthcare providers.

Support for Doctoral Students

The American Board of Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Scholarship aims to support doctoral students in an APA/CPA-accredited doctoral program in clinical psychology who intend to pursue board certification in clinical psychology following their training and licensure. ABCP provides the honorees’ ABPP early entry fee to support their future pursuit of board certification and $100 to defray costs of educational materials. In partnership, Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12 of APA, provides the honorees a one-year student membership to Division 12 and Section 10: Graduate Students and Early Career Psychologists. Please visit the ABCP Awards, Grants & Scholarships webpage to learn more.

Student Scholarship Winners

• Airyn Nash
• Katrina Sofia Rbeiz

Congratulations to all the awardees!

Please stay tuned to an announcement in the fall of our 2026 Senior Examiner and Distinguished Examiner Award recipients!