Dame Reubina Ann Ballin ONZ DBE (20 February 1932 – 2 September 2003) was a New Zealand psychologist and victims' rights advocate.
[1] In her mid-teens, she developed a neurological condition that attacked her spinal column, that made her reliant on a wheelchair for the remainder of her life.
[3] A qualified psychologist, she worked as a student counsellor at the University of Canterbury from 1974 to 1986,[2] and served as president of the New Zealand Psychological Society from 1979 to 1980.
From 1987 to 1988, she was a member of the Royal Commission on Social Policy and between 1980 and 1982 she was chairperson of the national committee of the International Year of Disabled Persons.
The award is given every four years, to a "Member/Fellow of the Society who is deemed to have made a notably significant contribution in the Aotearoa/New Zealand context, to the development or enhancement of clinical psychology".