David Shaffer - Awards and Honors

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.