Originally published: . Volume 9, No. 3. Source pages: 1, 8.
Dr. Darlyne Nemeth and Dr. Traci Olivier, co- authors of Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience: From Theory to Practice, have had their work chosen for the PROSE Award, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers.
Innovative Approaches is published by Elsevier Academic Press, July 2017.
The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in 58 categories. The award is given to works that provide “groundbreaking contributions to the scholarly community, are rigorously researched, edited, and fact checked, and that meet standards of exceptional quality,” according to the PSP.
“This is an unexpected honor. The book was chosen in the category of Social Work, Nursing, and Allied Health,” said Nemeth, a clinical, medical, and neuropsychologist, has a broad-spectrum practice at The Neuropsychology Center of Louisiana (NCL).
“I do believe that the last PROSE Award was won by a book published by LSU Press in 2009. It is such an honor to have our book amongst so many distinguished writings.”
Nemeth is Co-Secretary General, World Congress for Psychotherapy and a Member of the Organizing Committee for the II Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the Need of the XXI Century––Mental Health and Education to take place in Moscow, Russia in October 2018.She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the World Counsel for Psychotherapy, served on the APA Council of Representatives.
Last year Traci Olivier, PsyD, presented at a national neuropsychology conference, “Systematic desensitization in a young adult with pelizaeus- merzbacher disease,” with colleagues. Dr. Olivier completed an internship at John's Hopkins/Kennedy Krieger and then a post-doc in Pediatric Neuropsych- ology at St. Jude's in Memphis. She previously was an assistant at NCLA.
Nemeth has co-authored Helping Your Angry Child, published by New Harbinger and has co-edited the Living in an Environmentally Traumatized World: Healing Ourselves and Our Planet,
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