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The Call for Proposals closed January 10, 2024 at 5PM ET.
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Division session proposals closed Wednesday, January 10, 2024.
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Skill Building sessions should offer practical experience to help participants increase their understanding and skills in a particular area of current interest in the field of psychology. Activities and discussions should be woven into the session plan to help attendees truly apply learnings to their work. Session topics might include (but are not limited to) demonstrations of various methodologies, interviews, therapeutic or assessment techniques, statistical or scientific approaches.
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Symposia are focused sessions in which multiple speakers present information related to a unifying topic that is viewed to be a significant common theme, issue, or question. The presentations generally include a review of data but may also include discussions of contrasting viewpoints or other innovative strategies for engaging the audience. A symposium should include 2 or 3 brief presentations of research, practice or educational content.
Other symposium roles, including chairs and discussants are optional. The chair is the main point of contact for convention organizers; coordinates the symposium including inviting the presenters; ensures that all presenters are aware of the correct date, time and location of the presentation; and ensures that the symposium remains within the 50-minute limit. If no chair is designated, the first presenter listed in the online submission system will be designated as the main point of contact for the symposium submission. A symposium may include a very brief introduction to the topic by an expert who can set context and offer background for why the session topic is important. A discussant also has expertise in the topic at hand and can briefly draw a unifying theme across the presentations.
A symposium is not a paper-reading session.
Participants are encouraged to actively engage their audience rather than reading from a paper. Participants should prepare presentations in advance so that the discussant, if there is one, can effectively draw linkages across the presentations.
50 minutes
Critical Conversations are designed to support informed conversations between presenters and audience members. These sessions should begin with one or more brief presentations designed to provide the information needed for the audience to effectively participate in the discussion. The chair should act as a moderator to ensure that the bulk of the time in the discussion portion is spent in conversation with the audience.
50 minutes
Data blitz sessions feature up to six fast-paced, brief reports on hot topics, with individuals presenting for no more than five minutes each on various research, educational or practice topics. Data blitzes should provide an interactive experience for the audience, and organizers should allocate time (e.g., 10 minutes for every three presentations) to support audience engagement. Interactive experiences could include posing questions that require audience participation or organizing the data blitz around a particular theme that offers an opportunity for audience and speaker integration and discussion.
APA will feature three science summits to showcase outstanding science and discuss the future of research in three areas highly relevant to contemporary issues—Technology and Human Behavior, Promoting Social Equity, and Physical Activity: Supporting Health and Performance. These summits offer an exciting opportunity to highlight top research and provide critical discussions that can guide and inspire scientists across broad areas of research. Submitters with an accepted division program in one of these areas will be invited to be co-listed with the relevant science summit.
This video will guide you step-by-step through the process of submitting a proposal.
Division session proposals closed on Wednesday, January 10, 2024.
All APA 2024 division session proposals must be submitted online through the call for proposals platform by Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 5 p.m. ET. If you do not already have an account, you will be asked to create one and complete your contact profile before starting. Please ensure that you allow yourself enough time to enter all of the required information before the deadline. We highly encourage participants to enter the required information in advance to account for any questions or issues that may arise when submitting through the online platform.
You can save your proposal(s) and return to them at a later time. After you have submitted your final proposal, you and the session participants can still make edits through the platform until the January 10 deadline.
If you opt to have your session considered for CE credit, you will be required to provide additional information about all the session participants (see the CE section below).
The APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology sponsors CE credit for selected sessions offered by APA divisions and governance groups at APA 2024. Note: These sessions are different from CE Workshops.
● Provide APA members the opportunity to earn CE credit for selected sessions.
● Work with APA divisions and governance groups to promote high-quality educational programming.
● Highlight some of the outstanding programs offered at APA 2024.
If you would like to submit your session for CE review, please be sure to review the “APA Standards and Criteria for Approval of Sponsors of Continuing Education for Psychologists” to make sure your session meets the parameters of CE in psychology.
If your session meets the parameters of CE in psychology, select “Yes” to the Consideration for CE Credit question in the program submission form and then complete the following fields:
Note: The Abstract section of the submission for will also be used to review the session for CE.
The CE Session items are included in the APA 2024 program submission form, and must be completed at the time of submission (and by the January 10 deadline). If your session is accepted by the division to which you submitted a proposal, it will be the division program chair’s decision to submit the session for CE review to the APA CE Office.
The CE Office will review each session. Decisions are made by mid-May each year. If your session is approved to offer CE credits, the division program chair will notify you. The number of sessions offering CE credit may be limited due to cost, space considerations, and scheduling of sessions; therefore, not all sessions submitted for CE credit will be approved to offer CE credit.
ALL presenters and program participants—members, nonmembers, and students—are required to register for APA 2024 and pay the appropriate registration fees. APA 2024 registration will open in April.
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