Durham, NC - Dr. Terrie E. Moffitt has been awarded the Klaus-Grawe-Award for the Advancement of Innovative Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy for her research in the interrelation between genetic disposition and environmental factors in the development of problem behavior.

 

The award will be presented to her in May of 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland, and includes an endowment of 10,000 Euros.

 

The Klaus-Grawe-Foundation was founded in 2005, shortly after Professor Klaus Grawe had died unexpectedly at the early age of 62. The goals of the Klaus-Grawe-Foundation are to support excellent interdisciplinary and innovative research in clinical psychology and psychotherapy and their connected disciplines in the spirit of Klaus Grawe. The Klaus-Grawe-Award is presented every second year at the Annual Conference of the German Society of Psychology (GSP/DGPs), Subsection Clinical Psychology.