Call for Open Plenary Session Proposals
26th Annual VA
Psychology Leadership Conference
Better Together: Envisioning Our Future in VA Psychology
Co-Sponsored by APA, the Association of VA
Psychologist Leaders (AVAPL) and APA Division 18-Psychologists in Public
Service
The call for proposals for Posters and Open Plenary Presentations is
here! Proposals can be submitted for consideration for a Poster, an Open
Plenary Presentation or both. Both VA Psychologists and Trainees are
encouraged to apply. Please see the descriptions below. To submit a proposal
for a poster session or an open plenary session at the conference,
right click here and save this
Poster and Open Plenary Submission Form
to your computer's hard drive. Proposals should be submitted
to the Poster and Open Plenary Session Committee Chair, Margaret (Peggy)
Schmitt, PhD at
margaret.schmitt@bcm.edu and should
attach a completed
submission form to their submission. The deadline for early
consideration is Wednesday, February 22, 2023 and the committee will accept
submissions on a rolling basis after that time.
Poster Submission
We encourage the submission of quality original research, descriptions
of clinical programs, best practices, and implementation of VA programs. We
also will consider other quality presentations (research presented elsewhere
is welcome). Posters can be on any topic related to VA Psychology, but
special consideration will be given to posters that are consistent with this
year’s theme, “Better Together: Envisioning Our Future in VA Psychology.”
Open Plenary Submission
We have an open plenary session that we will fill with brief (10-minute)
presentations from our attendees. We invite all VA psychologists and
psychology trainees to consider submitting a proposal for a brief
presentation on novel or innovative best practices for improving care for
Veterans. Topics may include (but are not limited to) ideas for
ensuring a sustainable workforce of psychologists by focusing on wellness;
using the past two-year pandemic as inspiration to move forward in specific
ways to elevate Veteran mental health care; best practices for shifting the
delivery of healthcare during the pandemic; using measurement based care for
the purposes of enhancing the quality of care for our Veterans in the
future; learning lessons, during the pandemic, for offering quality mental
healthcare services to specific populations, including Veterans at high-risk
for suicide, Veterans with PTSD. We will select three to
five proposals for this open session.
