Friday, October 16, 2009
Burkhart Receives The Award for Excellence in Faculty Outreach
Auburn University will present its highest faculty awards for teaching, research, and outreach on Oct. 27, 2009, where Psychology Professor Barry Burkhart will receive The Award for Excellence in Faculty Outreach. Burkhart, an Auburn faculty member since 1974, has long been active in community projects across East Alabama and is co-director of a treatment program for juvenile sex offenders incarcerated in a state training school.
The awards will be held at the Hotel at Auburn University at 5 p.m.
Burkhart received his B.S. in Psychology from Florida State University in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1974, also, from Florida State University. He completed his internship in Clinical Psychology at University of Southern California-Los Angeles County Medical Center. He has broad recent interests in assessment and treatment of problems resulting from violence and victimization. Currently, he is co-director of a treatment program for juvenile sex offenders incarcerated in a state training school. He is a Fellow of Divisions 12 and 29 of the American Psychological Association and is a Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology of the. American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a founding partner of a large psychology practice and has been a practicing clinician since 1975.