Posted on August 26, 2004 at 4:00 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) psychologist Timothy R. Elliott, Ph.D., of Hoover, has received the Dorothy Booz Black Award for Outstanding Achievement in Counseling Health Psychology. The Society of Counseling Psychology at the American Psychological Association (APA) presented the award to Elliott at its annual convention in Honolulu recently.

The Dorothy Booz Black Award is given to encourage and award outstanding research and practice in counseling health psychology. The award includes a cash prize.

During the convention, Elliott also was named as the incoming editor of the journal Rehabilitation Psychology, published by the APA. Elliott’s five-year term will begin in 2005.

Elliott teaches in the UAB Department of Psychology. His research focuses on the factors that influence personal and family adjustments following chronic illness, disability and stress. He also is studying the efficacy of home-based problem solving interventions for family caregivers of individuals with spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and brain injuries.