Commentary: Dennis D. Drotar Distinguished Research Award: Reflections on People and Contexts Influencing a Research Career.
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I am deeply honored to receive the 2015 Dennis D. Drotar Distinguished Research Award by the Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP). Indeed, I am humbled that my colleagues believed that my research contributions are worthy of this award, named after probably the most impactful and productive pediatric psychology researcher in our history. Given that I suspect that the SPP Executive Committee made this decision based on my career contribution, I want to take this opportunity to reflect over my career (but please note, albeit 30þ years in the making, it is not over yet), not only in terms of what I did, but what influenced its evolution. It is not that I think my career path represents the model for achieving some success, even if success can be uniformly defined. Rather, there are numerous paths that can lead to success in a research career, but the direction I followed likely represents a less obvious one. That is, the prototypical research career path is one devoted to a relatively narrowly defined issue or problem, which is doggedly pursued through study after study, evolving over years. This is certainly a most admirable path, because when well done, it is likely to lead to clarity of understanding about that issue and well-recognized expertise and accolades for the researcher. However, my path cannot be defined by strategic pursuit of a well-articulated goal. The major reason for this, aside probably from my easily getting bored, is that my research development has been largely influenced by the people and contexts I encountered. Today, I define my research as focused on the quality of life (QOL) of vulnerable children, but this distillation evolved over my career. Early People and Contexts
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of pediatric psychology
دوره 40 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015