NASPR 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

We are delighted to announce the next NASPR chapter meeting, which is to be held November 4-6, 2021. Given the uncertain climate for travel and well-being right now, the meeting will be held entirely virtually so that we can focus on preparing a really excellent online conference experience for you.

After previewing multiple online conference platforms, we have chosen OnVent (myonvent.com), a company that has been hosting virtual gatherings since 2015. Their service welcomes you with a conference hall-style forum in which attendees can meet in chat or video in between seminars, just like during coffee breaks. Auditoriums hold the plenaries and paper presentations on the schedule, and they allow for interactive question and answer sessions with the presenters. Have a conflict between two panels that you want to see? Not a problem anymore because both will be available to registrants on-demand in video for up to a year after the conference date. Posters can be browsed at any time in an exhibition hall, and presenters can give their elevator pitch in a short video explaining their work for attendees outside of the poster hours.

NASPR will make available limited funding for local "hubs" that psychotherapy researchers can congregate safely in person to attend conference events or to share time together. Look for a call for proposals to design a hub in your area.

We are going to work exceptionally hard to ensure a smooth, thought-provoking, and networking conference this year. We hope this will be another NASPR meeting that we can gather together and share our work!

Scientific Program Committee: James F. Boswell (Chair)

Tali Boritz

Stephanie Budge

Ken Critchfield

Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr.

Nili Solomonov

Karen Tao

Soo Jeong Youn