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Horne, who will retire in December after serving as dean for the past five years, is widely known for his scholarship on dysfunctional families and ways to prevent and deal with bullying.

Arthur M. (Andy) Horne, dean of the University of Georgia College of Education and Distinguished Research Professor, was recently honored with a 2012 Lifetime Contributions Award from the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs (CCPTP) for his national leadership in the field of counseling psychology.

The CCPTP oversees the training and preparation of counseling psychologists at the doctoral level and establishes standards for practice in education and training programs throughout the nation. In addition to chairing the CCPTP, Horne served as doctoral program director for counseling psychology training programs for 18 years.

Horne, who will retire in December after serving as dean for the past five years, is widely known for his scholarship on dysfunctional families and ways to prevent and deal with bullying and aggressive behavior by males in the family, school and community context.

He has recently seen a cavalcade of recognitions for his work of nearly three decades. He received the American Psychological Association’s  (APA) 2011 Award for Lifetime Contributions to Prevention Psychology and was named 2011 Group Psychologist of the Year in the APA’s Division 49.  In 2010, he received the APA’ Counseling Psychology Social Justice Award.

Also in 2011, Horne was elected as President-Elect of the Society of Counseling Psychology, one of the largest divisions of the APA. His tenure as president begins this fall.

Since 1999, he has received more than $7 million in research funding that includes grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Arthur Blank Foundation, U.S. Department of Education and National Institute of Mental Health.  Horne is a Fellow of UGA’s Institute for Behavioral Research and several divisions of the American Psychological Association.

A recent report on the most cited and downloaded articles in the peer-reviewed, leading journal in group psychology and therapy, Group Dynamics, indicated  that Horne was co-author of two of the Top 10 and three of the Top 50 articles over the past decade.

The award was presented during the annual conference of the American Psychological Association (APA) Aug. 2-5 in Orlando, Fla.

He joined the UGA faculty in 1989 from Indiana State University. He received his Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University.