The 2017 Albert Ellis Award for Research has been granted to the following scientific publication:

•Cuijpers, P., Cristea, I.A., Karyotaki, E., Reijnders, M., Huibers, M.. How effective are cognitive behavior therapies for major depression and anxiety disorders? A meta-analytic update of the evidence, World Psychiatry 15, 245–258 doi:10.1002/wps.20346 (Impact factor: 20.205).

o Principal author: Pim Cuijpers is a Highly Cited Researchers (based on the Web of Science analyses), a professor of clinical psychology/psychotherapy and the head of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also the Scientific program chair of the 9th Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy (International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy), which will take place in 29th of June-1st of July 2017, in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania.

To learn more about Professor Cuijpers see at http://www.fgb.vu.nl/nl/over-de-faculteit/medewerkers-alfabetisch/medewerkers-c-e/p-cuijpers/index.aspx