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 2024 Convention in November. All ABCT attendees are welcome at these events. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia, PA!
AMASS 2024 Workshop
Harnessing Precision Medicine Methods to Improve Clinical Prediction and Digital Interventions: Introduction to Applied Examples and Tutorials
Nur Hani Zainal, Ph.D., MS, Presidential Young Professorship (PYP) Assistant
Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Natalia Van Doren, Ph.D., MS, NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Annual Meeting and Distinguished Speaker
Our annual SIG Meeting will take place on Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST in 307 (Level 3 of the Downtown Marriott). 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 Dr. Bethany C. Bray, a renowned expert in advanced statistical methods for substance use research. Dr. Bray will deliver an insightful 30-minute talk at ABCT 2024 on the application of latent profile analysis and other person-centered approaches to address crucial questions in clinical psychology. Dr. Hani Zainal will be sending you more details about her talk shortly.
SIG Symposia and Poster Presentations
We are excited to have three SIG-sponsored symposia at this year's convention:
Symposium 28 - Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: What Do Our Data Say About Heterogeneity, and Can We Leverage Person-Centered Analytics to Address Individual Differences as We Prepare for the Future of Personalized Therapy?
Friday, November 15, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Location: Congress A, Fourth Floor, Loews Hotel
Presenters: Mercedes Woolley, B.A., Amanda Collins, Ph.D., Clarissa Ong, Ph.D., and Claire Cusack, M.S.
Discussant: Stefan Hofmann, Ph.D.
Symposium 44 - Novel Methods in CBT Research and Practice
Friday, November 15, 2024, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST, Location: Congress A, Fourth Floor, Loews Hotel
Co-chairs: Alessandro De Nadai, Ph.D., and Alexander Crenshaw, Ph.D.
Presenters: Alessandro De Nadai, Ph.D., Alexander Crenshaw, Ph.D., Robyn Kilshaw, M.S., Gemma Wallace, Ph.D., and Antonio Morgan-Lopez, Ph.D.
Discussant: Brian Baucom, Ph.D.
Symposium 127 - Advancing treatment personalization by identifying and targeting idiographic psychopathological mechanisms
Sunday, November 17, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST, Location: Grand Ballroom G/H, Level 5, Downtown Marriott
Co-chair: Madeline Kushner, B.A.
Presenters: Madeline Kushner, B.A., Madelyn Frumkin, Ph.D., Anna Marie Ortiz, Ph.D., and Zachary Cohen, Ph.D.
Discussant: Aaron Fisher, Ph.D.
Annual SIG Expo
Philadelphia Downtown Marriott Hotel
Friday, November 15, 2024 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Can ChatGPT Accurately Screen Article Titles and Abstracts? Findings From an Exploratory Pilot Project
Jingxuan Sun and Jack H. Andrews, University of Missouri-Columbia
Anhedonia in Flux: Understanding the Associations of Emotion Regulation and Anxiety With Anhedonia Variability in a Sample With Major Depressive Disorder
Michael R. Gallagher, Mississippi State University; Amanda C. Collins, Damien Lekkas, Tess Z. Griffin, and George D. Price, Dartmouth College; Matthew D. Nemesure, Harvard Business School; Michael V. Heinz, Dartmouth College
Examining Dynamic Relationships Between Ruminative Thinking and Negative Events: A Within-Persons Investigation
Emily Mintz, Madelyn Frumkin, and Dhea Kothari, Massachusetts General Hospital; Donald Robinaugh, Massachusetts General Hospital and Northeastern University; Amanda Baker, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
A Qualitative Comparison of Manual vs. AI-Supported Systematic Review Screening
Emma R. Toner, Olivia Chapman, Anna Groszkowski, Anastasia Zhang, Freya Lin, and Bethany A. Teachman, University of Virginia
Strategies for Recruitment and Engagement of Ethnoracially Minoritized Communities of Older Adults
Sofia Montinola, Antonietta Alvarez-Hernandez, Maria Villalona, Amrutha G. Arimella, and Louisa G. Sylvia, Massachusetts General Hospital; Andrew DeMott, University of Illinois at Chicago; Ana-Maria Vranceanu, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University
Measuring the Consistency of Daily Irritability Triggers: A Text-Mining Approach
Yixuan Zhu and Mingcong Tang, Boston University; Tiffany Tran, Arizona State University; Qimin Liu, Boston University
Identifying and Combatting Fraudulent Entries in a Pragmatic Multi-Site Trial Comparing Yoga and Psychotherapy
Giuliana M. Chau, Zainab Soetan, Dustin J. Rabideau, and Louisa G. Sylvia, Massachusetts General Hospital; Melissa Adkins-Hempel, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute; Catherine O'Connor and Lisa A. Uebelacker, Butler Hospital
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
