This $1000 award was established in 1974 by the Psychology Graduate Union and named after the founding dean of the School of Psychology. In the past, awards were given annually to students considered by a student committee to have submitted the best integrative papers in theoretical or experimental categories. You can download the description and the criteria here. 

The Travis Award submissions are due by the 3rd week of January.  Please send your submissions to Christine at christinetzeng@fuller.edu. 

For more information, please contact:  

Christine Tzeng
Faculty Assistant - School of Psychology
Phone: 626-584-5538
Email: christinetzeng@fuller.edu   

2013 

•  Kris Thomas,  A Descent into Madness: Theoretical and Clinical Reflections on Schizophrenia and Implications for Christan Theology and Practice 

2012 

•  Jesse Malott, Tiffany E. Martinez, Charlotte E. Sandy, & Joseph Currier, Bereavement, Religion, and Posttraumatic Growth: A Matched Control Group Investigation 

2011 

•  Kris Thomas, Metaphor and Story in Cognitive Decline: Reflections on Israel's Narrative Self-Identity in Exile as Meaningful in the Care of Persons with Dementia 

2010 

•  Christopher Keiper, Current Interpretive Problems and a Suggested Hermeneutical Model for Approaching Christian Psychology 

2009 

•  Lisa Finlay, the Therapist's Hope for Healing 

2008 

•  Joseph P. Barsuglia, Holy Saturday in Existential Psychology: Preloegomenary Integration of Von Balthasar's Theology of Christ's Descent Into Hell with Meaning Making in Logotherapy in a Christian Context 
•  David Goodman, Frodo, Gyges, and The Lord of the Self 

2007 

•  Jill Alonzo, Jesus' Table Fellowship as a Model for Therapy 

2006 

•  Stephen Callender, Psychotherapy: The New Moral Tradition in America 
•  Sing-Kiat Ting, Integration within Chinese Cultures: Wind and Sun 

2005 

•  Brian W. Becker, Psychotherapy as Transubstantiation: A Postmodern Interpretation of the Holy Eucharist as a Subversive Image to Undermine Individualism and Reductionism in Western Culture and Modern Psychology. 
•  Nancy Liu, Mindfulness: A Christian Critique 

2004 

•  Diane Fruchter, Religious Problem-Solving as Pragmatic Theology: Reflecting on the Religious Problem-Solving Scale 
•  Gabrielle Taylor, Transformation: Facing the Anxiety of Being 

2003 

•  Gabrielle Taylor, Psychoanalysis and the Church: Implications for Transformation 
•  Scott Garrels, Imitation, Mirror Neurons, & Mimetic Desire: Generative Mechanisms in Religious, Cultural, and Psychosocial Structures 

2002 

•  Steven A. Rogers, Object Relations and Job: Suffering as a parallel process toward Individuation 
•  Greg M. Reger and Steven A. Rogers, Diagnostic Differences in Religious Coping Among the Persistently Mentally Ill 

2001 

•  Daryl Schrock, Where is God: A Reflection on Trauma and Theology.  
•  Steven A. Rogers, The Parent-Child Relationship as an Archetype for the Relationship Between God and Humanity in Genesis. 

2000 

•  Gladys K. Mwiti , Three-Step Psychotherapy: Reflecting on the Umuntu Harambee Process Towards Resiliency, Rebirth, and Reintegration.