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Call for Abstracts: 2020 Future Directions Forum (June 12-13, 2020 – Washington, DC)

June 12-13, 2020 (Washington, DC)
Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology – American Psychological Association – Taylor and Francis

NOTE: IF WE DO NOT HOLD THE FORUM IN-PERSON THIS YEAR DUE TO COVID-19, WE WILL HOLD ALL ADDRESSES, WORKSHOPS, AND POSTER SESSIONS VIRTUALLY! 

Overview

Learning how to do great science requires a toolbox of skills. Skills for effectively communicating science. To secure funding for scientific work. To identify where and when job opportunities arise. To get the offers to start your first job and build the record to keep that job. No one takes a class to acquire this toolbox, who has the time? Yet, we still need these tools, so where do we find them? We launched the Future Directions Forum to help you build your scientific toolbox. At the Forum, we dedicate a full day to offering professional development workshops, as well as small group and one-on-one expert consultations on all aspects of academic work. We webcast many of these events online so that those who cannot attend in-person can have access to this content from wherever they are.

Learning new skills only gets you so far. You need a space to showcase those skills and what you have to offer. Thus, a key element of the Forum is that it raises the public awareness of its attendees. In Washington, DC, our Forum Science Social features presentations rendered in an all-digital environment. Further, we leverage the small, intimate atmosphere of the meeting for networking opportunities between presenters and the world-class speakers we invite to the Forum. Online, we host the Forum Science Community. Here, webcast attendees have the opportunity to present their research and interact with other attendees. We leverage widely used online platforms to enhance the visibility of all this work.

In keeping with our focus on the future of science, we dedicate a full day to learning about innovative areas of mental health research, based on featured content from a leading mental health journal, the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP). In particular, articles from JCCAP’s Future Directions series are written by thought leaders who come from research backgrounds as diverse as interventions, neuroscience, suicide, health disparities, sleep, and stigma. As such, at the Forum we cover research relevant to anyone allied with the diverse fields that focus on mental health, including Counseling, Education, Neuroscience, Nursing, Pediatrics, Psychology, Psychiatry, Public Health and Policy, Social Work, and Sociology. An extended description of the Forum can be found here: http://bit.ly/JCCAPFDFHome

The 2020 Future Directions Forum will be in Washington, DC, on June 12th-13th, 2020, on the top floor of the American Psychological Association’s home office (http://spireeventsdc.com/). We webcast much of the Forum’s programming so that people from all over the world can view the Forum from wherever they are!

Please see our official Call for Abstracts documents for more information:

We accept submissions via our online surveys:

DEADLINE: We will review all abstracts submitted on or before 11:59 PM on Friday, April 3rd, 2020.