Events and Resources
Convention Events
At each annual meeting, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) organizes seminars on advanced methodology and statistics (AMASS) relevant to research in psychological and behavioral sciences.
The Clinical Research Methods and Statistics Special Interest Group organizes symposia and panel submissions for each ABCT annual meeting. We also organize an annual poster session within the ABCT annual meeting's SIG exposition. We welcome submissions from diverse topics either in the development or application of novel research methodology or statistics.
See below for information about our SIG's events at the ABCT 2023 Convention in November. All ABCT attendees are welcome at these events. We look forward to seeing you in Seattle, WA!
Annual Meeting and Distinguished Speaker:
Our annual SIG Meeting will take place on Saturday, November 18, 2023, from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST in Bogachiel (303) (Level 3 of the conference hotel). We will discuss SIG business and hear presentations from this year's distinguished speaker and poster award winner.
We are thrilled to announce our distinguished speaker this year is Professor Aidan Wright, Ph.D. of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Professor Wright is an expert on idiographic approaches in clinical science, and he will present during the second half of our annual meeting (9–9:30 AM) on November 18. Dr. Kay Shin will be sending you more details about his talk shortly.
SIG Symposia and Poster Presentations
We are excited to have two SIG-sponsored symposia at this year's convention:
Symposium 37 - Caveats and recommendations in using novel analytic methods: Application to clinical psychological data
Friday, November 17, 2023, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PST, Washougal (408), Level 4
Co-chairs: Ki Eun (Kay) Shin, Ph.D., and Nur Hani Zainal, Ph.D.
Presenters: D. Gage Jordan, Ph.D., Gemma Wallace, Ph.D., Qimin Liu, Ph.D., and Alexander O. Crenshaw, Ph.D.
Discussant: Craig Henderson, Ph.D.
Symposium 62 - Leveraging novel statistical methods to describe momentary symptom fluctuations in daily life
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST, Cowlitz (502), Level 5
Co-chairs: Devon Sandel-Fernandez, M.A. and Esther Howe, M.A.
Presenters: Kevin King, Ph.D., Ross Jacobucci, Ph.D., Devon Sandel-Fernandez, M.A., Chris D. Hughes, Ph.D., and Esther Howe, M.A.
Discussant: Sarah E. Victor, Ph.D.
Lastly, our SIG has an excellent line-up of poster presentations for the Annual SIG Expo, 6:30–8:30 PM on Friday, November 17, 2023, in the Columbia Ballroom (Level 3):
Leveraging a Novel Application of Latent Profile Analysis to Examine Associations Between Day-Level Affect Profiles and Same-Day Substance Use Among Young Adults
Natalia Van Doren, Bethany C. Bray, José A. Soto, and Ashley N. Linden-Carmichael
Psychometric Testing of the Cannabis Hangover Symptom Questionnaire Using Exploratory Graph Analysis and Examination of Cannabis Use Predictors
Naomi M. McFarland, Bethany A., Benjamin O. Ladd, and Mark A. Prince
Positive Reappraisal Coping Mediates the Relationship Between Parental Abuse and Lack of Affection on Adulthood Generalized Anxiety Severity
Matthew H. S. Ng, Nur Hani Zainal, and Michelle G. Newman
The Two-Part Sequential Model
Luiza Pradera
Complier Average Causal Effect Analyses of Guided and Self-guided Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for College Students in Colombia and Mexico to Estimate Adherence-adjusted Treatment Effects on Anxiety and Depression
Nur Hani Zainal, Corina Benjet, and Ronald C. Kessler
Evaluating Response to a CBT for Psychosis-Informed Caregiver Training Among Families at Different Stages of Psychosis: A Bayesian Multilevel Analysis
Victoria Shepard, Bryan Stiles, Jennifer Blank, Adam Kuczynski, and Sarah Kopelovich
Congratulations to all our SIG members who are presenting next month!
Resources
More information about the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and the annual ABCT convention can be found at abct.org
For a comprehensive list of other specialized methodology and statistics training opportunities, please see Alan Reifman's excellent 2018 compendium
For online support, assistance with a wide array of analyses can be found at the IDRE at UCLA at http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
For latent variable models, excellent input can be found at the Mplus forums at http://www.statmodel.com/discussion/messages/board-topics.html
Information and assistance in structural equation modeling within the freely available program R is available through OpenMx at http://openmx.psyc.virginia.edu
We send monthly resources about current methods topics to our SIG listserv, which you can join at https://sites.google.com/view/abctclinicalresearchmethods/join
