# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-meichenbaum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:48:07.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-meichenbaum"
name: "Donald Meichenbaum"
slug: "donald-meichenbaum"
description: "Donald H. Meichenbaum is an American psychologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is also a research director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment at the University of Miami. Meichenbaum is known for his research and publications on psychotherapy and his contributions to the development of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). In 1982, a survey of 800 members of the American Psychological Association voted Meichenbaum the tenth most influential psychotherapist of the 20th century. At the time of his retirement from the University of Waterloo in 1998, Meichenbaum was the most-cited psychology researcher at a Canadian university."
tagline: "American psychologist and psychotherapist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Meichenbaum_at_TMI's_29th_Annual_Conference_2025_(crop).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-06-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.861842105263158
  historical:           5.705762666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump