ABCT Child & Adolescent Depression SIG
ABCT Annual Convention 2017
Thursday, November 16-19
at San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
We are pleased to announce our call for abstracts for the annual ABCT SIG poster competition! All posters will be presented at the SIG Exposition and Opening Cocktail Party.
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Submission Guidelines:
*SIG members who are interested in participating should send an abstract to childdepressionsig@gmail.com with a maximum of 500 words.
*All abstracts should include the following:
(1) Title (no more than 175 characters in length)
(2) Author(s) (including institution and ABCT membership status), and
(3) Summary of the research project.
*In order to submit a poster, you must be a paid SIG member.
***Submission Due Date: August 21, 2017 ***
**All submissions will be reviewed and notified of acceptance by early September, 2017. Winners of the poster competition will be announced at the ABCT Convention.**
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V. Robin Weersing, PhD
will give our keynote address at our annual SIG meeting this year!
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Dr. Weersing is the director of the Child and Adolescent
Anxiety and Mood Program (ChAAMP) at San Diego State
University (SDSU) and a professor in the joint doctoral program in clinical psychology at SDSU and UC San Diego. She holds honorary appointments in Child Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and the Yale University School of Medicine. Her research centers on the development of efficient and effective interventions for anxiety, depression, and somatic distress in children and adolescents. Dr. Weersing and her lab have attempted to probe the effectiveness of usual community care for internalizing youth, to understand the effects of established evidence-based interventions for these conditions when tested in
the settings and samples of active healthcare practice, and to develop novel treatments for internalizing youths focusing on core transdiagnostic mechanisms of action that may be robust to dissemination. In addition to her empirical and theoretical papers in these areas, Dr. Weersing is an author of five psychosocial treatment and prevention manuals for youth internalizing disorders, all of which have been tested in randomized trials with families drawn from community clinical settings, and she has served as an expert consultant on the development of practice guidelines for the screening and treatment of adolescent depression in primary care. Her program of work has been acknowledged with numerous awards and fellowships including recognition from the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, and the William T. Grant Foundation.
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We can’t wait to see you all in November!
SIG SOCIAL AND NETWORKING HOUR
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This Year's SIG Meeting will be held on: Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 12-1:30pm in Aqua 309, Level 3
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Posters will be presented at the Special Interest Group Exposition at the Friday Night Welcoming Cocktail Party on Friday, November 17, 2017 at 6:30-8:30pm in the Sapphire Ballroom on the 4th floor
For our convention guide to events we believe may be of interest to you, please see our August 2017 Newsletter which includes a daily itinerary of events