The Parenting and Families Special Interest Group (SIG) is now accepting SIG Expo poster submissions and Student Research Award applications for the 2025 ABCT annual convention in New Orleans, LA from November 20 to 23, 2025.

Please note that you must be a Parenting & Families SIG member to present a poster. To become a member, you must first become a member of ABCT and then you can complete our SIG Membership Form. We understand that some students may only join ABCT and attend the convention if they have an accepted poster. We will include this information on how to join or SIG with poster acceptance notifications as well.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that highlight the experiences of parents and families from underrepresented groups, including topics such as racism, increasing access to care (e.g., immigrants, LGBTQ+, BIPOC families), and cultural considerations or adaptations.

SIG Poster Abstract Submission. If you would like your poster to be considered, please complete this form: ****https://forms.gle/7czXfCzNZLQfhXh59****

You will be asked to provide your contact information and an abstract along with the name, degree, affiliation, and ABCT membership status for all authors. Your abstract should include the following sections: (1) Title, (2) Authors and Affiliations, (3) Background/Rationale/Hypotheses, (4) Methods, (5) Results, and (6) Discussions/Implications. Please follow the ABCT poster abstract guidelines of 2800 characters max (not counting spaces) for the abstract text. We will be using the ABCT 2023 Reviewer Criteria for evaluating poster abstracts including rating Significance, Approach, Innovation, Inclusion of Diverse Populations, and Relevance to Missions/Goals. Please take a look at the ABCT scoring rubric here.

*If you would like to submit this abstract for consideration for our student research award, you will be asked to provide details about your contribution to the research project (e.g., running visits, analyzing data, conducting literature search).

Student Research Award. If you would like to apply for the student research award, please complete this form:  ****https://forms.gle/7czXfCzNZLQfhXh59****

You can submit a new poster abstract (to be presented at the SIG Expo) or you can submit an abstract for an already accepted poster to be considered for the SIG's student research award. You will be asked to provide your contact information and an abstract along with the name, degree, affiliation, and ABCT membership status for all authors. You will also be asked to provide details about your contribution to the research project (e.g., running visits, analyzing data, conducting literature search).

Please complete all submissions by 11:59 pm ET on Friday, August 8, 2025. All submissions should be completed through this google form: ****https://forms.gle/iSvEw6YacdTuvWNV8****

If you have any questions, please contact abctparentingandfamiliessig@gmail.com or post on the Google group board.