Dr.
Lazarus is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Rutgers
University, and has also served on the faculties of Stanford University,
Temple University Medical School, and Yale University.
He has
received numerous honors and awards, most notably the Distinguished
Service Award from the American Board of Professional Psychology, special
awards from the divisions of psychotherapy and clinical psychology of the
American Psychological Association, and he is the first recipient of the
prestigious Annual Cummings PSYCHE Award. In 1999 he received two Lifetime
Achievement Awards, one from the California Psychological Association and
the other from the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.
He has
maintained a clinical practice since 1959 and has authored or co-authored
17 books and over 250 articles and chapters.