Awards and Honors
- The American Psychiatric Association awarded him the McGavin Award in 1995 and the Itteleson award in 2000.
- In 2007, he received lifetime achievement awards from NARSAD and from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
- He received the American Suicide Foundation’s award for research in suicide in 1989 and the American Mental Health Fund Research Award for research on suicide in 1990.
- The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry awarded him the Philips Prize for outstanding contribution to prevention in 1998, the Klingenstein Third-Generation Foundation Award for Research in Depression or Suicide in 2004, and the Catcher in the Rye Award in 2006.
- In 2009, he received the Joseph Zubin Award from the American Psychopathological Association.
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