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Call for Abstracts: 2022 Future Directions Forum (June 9-11, 2022)

Presented by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology • American Psychological Association • Taylor and Francis

Deadline: March 18th, 2022

Learning how to do great science requires a toolbox. This toolbox contains tools for effectively communicating ideas and scholarly findings. For making time to produce scholarship. For securing funding for scholarly work. For identifying where and when scholarly job opportunities arise. For getting the offers to start a job and building 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 offer professional development resources on all aspects of academic work, delivered through evidence-based, large-group workshops; as well as small group and one-on-one consultations that we tailor to your needs as an early career scientist. An extended description of our programming for 2022 can be found on ResearchGate: http://bit.ly/JCCAPFDF

Learning new skills only gets you so far. You also 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 and their scholarly work. Since our first Forum in 2017, attendees deliver poster presentations about their work in an all-digital environment. Within this environment, attendees have the opportunity to present their research and interact with other attendees, and we leverage widely used social media platforms to enhance the visibility of all this work:

  • Disseminated via Twitter;
  • Provided with a digital object identifier (doi); and
  • Linked to Altmetric© (https://www.altmetric.com)

In keeping with our focus on the future of science, we also dedicate time to learning about innovative areas of mental health research, based on featured content from the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP) Future Directions article series. In 2022, we are proud to announce that all of our invited addresses will be delivered by pioneering early career researchers, based on their recent, groundbreaking Future Directions articles. Our publisher Taylor and Francis Group has made all of their articles free to download!

  • Dr. Riana Anderson (Assistant Professor at University of Michigan): Learn about Future Directions in research on racism: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumAnderson2022 
  • Dr. Miya Barnett (Assistant Professor at University of California at Santa Barbara): Learn about Future Directions in research on lay health workers: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumBarnett2022 
  • Dr. Jessica Fish (Assistant Professor at University of Maryland): Learn about Future Directions in research on LGBTQ youth mental health: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumFish2022
  • Dr. Jessica Schleider (Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University): Learn about Future Directions in research on brief, scalable interventions: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumSchleider2022 

Benefits of Presenting at the Forum Science Social

At the Forum Science Social, our presentations occur during a catered poster session on the top floor of the home office of the American Psychological Association (http://spireeventsdc.com). Those whose abstracts are accepted for presentation and fit eligibility criteria may be considered for our two awards and recognitions programs:

Deadline for Submission and Notification

We will review abstract submissions submitted on or before 11:59pm EST on Friday, March 18th, 2022. Review decisions on abstracts will be communicated by April 1st, 2022.

Policy on Forum Registration

Presenters will showcase their work live and in-person during our Forum Science Social in Washington, DC. Thus, presenters must register and pay the Forum’s registration fee ($99). The $99 registration is for early, online registration. Onsite registration fees will increase relative to the early fee. Registration will open in early 2022.

Abstract Review Process

Abstracts must describe a complete representation of your work and cannot be a “work in progress” that has yet to yield discernible findings. We only accept abstracts that report findings from empirical work (e.g., experiments, studies leveraging qualitative approaches, controlled trials, archival database studies, psychometric studies, controlled observations, field studies, and meta-analytic reviews). At each Forum, four leaders in mental health research give addresses on innovative areas of research. Thus, we will be especially interested in abstracts that report research in these areas (i.e., for 2022: racism/ discrimination; lay health workers; intervention science; sexual identities). However, we welcome abstracts on all research relevant to mental health, including work across the lifespan (e.g., young children, adolescents, adults)!

Detailed Information on Presentation Format and Process

Presentations will all be in a digital poster format created using Microsoft Powerpoint© software. Poster sessions will occur during our Forum Science Social: A catered social event held on the first afternoon of the Forum. If your abstract is accepted for presentation we will prompt you via email to upload your presentation into our system for visual production (i.e., you will not have to print your poster in paper form). Our guidelines for making poster presentations can be found here: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumPoster. 

Abstract Submission Survey

We accept abstract submissions via our online submission portal: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumAbstractPortal2022. 

Please answer all questions in our submission survey, as your responses will allow us to create the optimal experience for attendees and presenters. Please also use our abstract template to submit your poster: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumTemplate2022

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Our FAQs page can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/JCCAPForumFAQs2022 

Questions Not Addressed by our FAQs Document

Please direct all other inquiries to the Future Directions Forum contact email: [email protected]