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CANDIDACY REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO THE INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR RESEARCH STUDIES ON TRAUMA, AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS

The international prize amounting to €10,000 set up for the best young investigator of Trauma and Personality Disorders will be grant by the Scientific Committee during the second edition of the Congress on Attachment and Trauma. To be eligible, candidates must meet the following requirements:
1. not having reached the age of 40 years (in the event of a tie, the prize will be awarded to the younger investigator)
2. having published as principal authors at least the preliminary data of a study within the fields of trauma, attachment and/or personality research (publication here also refers to any relevant manuscript submitted to and accepted by a journal, along with a letter certifying the journal commitment to publish it)
3. NOT submitting publications in which any member of the Scientific Committee granting the award is included.

Research will be assessed according to the following criteria: methodological correctness; significance of outcomes; novelty of investigation; adherence to the topic of attachment, trauma and/or personality; submission of data relevant to future research and/or clinical implications.

The Scientific Committee is chaired by Dr. Antonio Onofri, psychiatrist, and includes: Arnoud Arntz, Pat Ogden, Allan Schore, Kathy Steele, Stephen Porges, Russel Meares, Isabel Fernandez, Giovanni Liotti, Eckhard Roediger, Stephen Doering, Giancarlo Dimaggio, Daniel Siegel, Peter Fonagy, Edward Tronick, Fabio Veglia, Alessandro Carmelita.

Participants may send their projects either by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to the ISC administrative office, via Carlo Felice 5, 07100, Sassari (Italy), or by certified email address to attachment.trauma@pec.net, within and no later than July 10, 2015. The winner will be announced by September 10.
The initiator of the prize was the Istituto di Scienze Cognitive (ISC), which is organizing the Congress on Attachment and Trauma to be held in Rome, at the Teatro Brancaccio, on September 25-26-27, 2015. “This award” – says Alessandro Carmelita, ISC President – “is aimed at encouraging young psychotherapists to develop increasingly original and innovative research/therapy plans that can address the challenges of an illness following trauma and attachment disease”.