Psychology Professor Honored With American Psychological Association Presidential Citation Thursday, October 4, 2018
"I’m very grateful to the APA for this recognition which is a personal and professional career highlight for me. But even more importantly, this honor will shine a light on the efforts of these exceptional organizations to empower girls and young women to have productive lives through holistic, gender-specific programs, education and experiences, and to work with providers, communities, and systems about best practices for supporting and advocating for black girls through policy change."
Britney G. Brinkman, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and placement coordinator for the Psy.D. in clinical-community psychology program at Point Park University, was honored by the American Psychological Association with the prestigious Citizen Psychologist Presidential Citation.
Brinkman received the award in recognition for her work with the non-profit organizations, Gwen’s Girls and the Black Girls Equity Alliance, which is overseen by the Gwendolyn J. Elliott Institute.
“I’m very grateful to the APA for this recognition which is a personal and professional career highlight for me. But even more importantly, this honor will shine a light on the efforts of these exceptional organizations to empower girls and young women to have productive lives through holistic, gender-specific programs, education and experiences, and to work with providers, communities, and systems about best practices for supporting and advocating for black girls through policy change," Brinkman explained.
Brinkman is the author of the book Detection and Prevention of Identity-Based Bullying: Social Justice Perspectives and is the president of the board of directors of Pittsburgh Action Against Rape.
A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Brinkman is a graduate of the University of Utah. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Colorado State University. Prior to joining Point Park, she was an associate professor in the counseling psychology graduate program at Chatham University. She also taught courses at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, the University of Utah and Colorado State University.
Brinkman's areas of expertise include the psychology of social justice, girls’ studies, sexual violence prevention, multicultural competence training and anti-racist feminist psychology.