

59th Annual Convention
The 58th Annual ABCT Convention will be held in New Orleans, LA from November 20-23, 2025. More information can be found here.
See below for the Student SIG's 2025 offerings!

Student SIG 2025 Poster Expo
The Student SIG is pleased to accept poster abstracts from undergraduate, post-bacc, and graduate student presenters for the 2025 ABCT SIG Poster Exposition.
You neither need to be a member of ABCT or the Student SIG to submit an abstract, and membership status will not impact chances of acceptance.
Please submit your 500 word abstract via the form below by August 15, 2025 11:59PM ET.
Two awards will be available through our SIG: the Best Student Special Interest Group Presentation Award and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.
The Best Student Special Interest Group Presentation Award acknowledges outstanding student research presented at ABCT’s annual poster expo.
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award acknowledges outstanding student research devoted to the advancement diversity, equity, and inclusion.
These awards will include a certificate from our SIG and will be presented at our SIG meeting at the ABCT Convention.
Review criteria and the submission form are below.

Past Conventions

58th Annual Convention
The 58th Annual ABCT Convention will be held in Philadelphia, PA from November 14-17, 2024. More information can be found here. Please note that this year the convention will be hosted across two hotels: the Loews Philadelphia Hotel and the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
See below for the Student SIG's 2024 offerings!

Student SIG 2024 Poster Expo
The Student SIG is pleased to accept poster abstracts from undergraduate, post-bacc, and graduate student presenters for the 2024 ABCT SIG Poster Exposition.
You neither need to be a member of ABCT or the Student SIG to submit an abstract, and membership status will not impact chances of acceptance.
Please submit your 500 word abstract via the form below by August 4, 2024 11:59PM ET.
Two awards will be available through our SIG: the Best Student Special Interest Group Presentation Award and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.
The Best Student Special Interest Group Presentation Award acknowledges outstanding student research presented at ABCT’s annual poster expo.
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award acknowledges outstanding student research devoted to the advancement diversity, equity, and inclusion.
These awards will include a certificate from our SIG and will be presented at our SIG meeting at the ABCT Convention.
Review criteria and the submission form are below.

How do we rate submissions?
The Student SIG is committed to demystifying the process of poster selection. To that end, we are making public our rubric for grading posters at the button below. Posters will be rated on the criteria outlined in this rubric by the Student SIG co-chairs. It is requested that all identifying information is excluded from the abstract document to make possible a fair and blind review process.
Special session -
"Graduate school: what you really need to know"
Back for its second year, this panel session at the annual ABCT Convention will provide an opportunity for undergraduates, post-baccalaureates, and early-stage graduate students to learn about what graduate school is really like and how to make the most of it from the perspective those "in the thick of it." Our panel consists of a group of graduate students diverse in identities, program areas, geographic locations, and research activity. Following a moderated discussion, attendees will have the opportunity to ask panelists questions about their experiences. Meet our amazing panelists below!



Colin Tidwell (he/him) is a 4th year PhD candidate at the University of Arizona. His research, clinical work, and scholarly activism centers marginalized groups, with a specific focus on queer and trans folx. In his clinical work, Colin uses an empirically driven, integrative treatment approach informed by a community-supported understanding of social justice. His research investigates novel approaches to studying the LGBTQ+ community using ambulatory assessment methods.
Andrea Wiglesworth (she/her; Seneca-Cayuga and Shawnee) is a 6th-year PhD candidate in the Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research Program at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, currently completing her pre-doctoral internship. She researches suicide risk and resilience in adolescence, centering on biological stress mechanisms and developmental processes. Her work also attends to the unique experiences and contexts that shape risk and resilience trajectories among Native American young people. She is dedicated to making psychology more equitable, as reflected in her mentorship and field-service activities.
Brianna A. Baker (she/her/hers) is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program at Columbia University and a predoctoral fellow at Yale University School of Medicine finishing her last year of training. Her research interests broadly include sociopolitical determinants of mental health, positive Black family and youth development, and ameliorating sociohistorical racial trauma through community-focused program development. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar and an American Psychological Association Predoctoral Minority Fellow. She hopes to mesh her passions for communications, public health, and psychology to bring African American mental health to the forefront of America’s social, moral, and political agendas.


Yexinyu “Yolanda” Yang (she/her) is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research primarily focuses on bridging the efficacy-effectiveness gap in evidence-based treatments, leveraging technology and statistical tools to enhance the personalization and effectiveness of mental health interventions for families and children. Grounded in a cultural humility lens, she approaches both clinical practice and teaching with a steadfast commitment to listening, understanding, and respecting diverse perspectives. As an international student from China, Yolanda is dedicated to promoting equity in psychology and higher education braoadly through active engagement in mentorship and service initiatives aimed at dismantling elitism and fostering inclusivity.
Joseph Harrison, MS is a fifth year PsyD candidate in the PsyD in Clinical Psychology program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and current psychology intern at the University of Pennsylvania. He is passionate about health psychology, integrated behavioral health, and increasing access to evidence-based mental health services for historically marginalized communities. He is also interested in the use of digital mental health tools to augment evidence-based treatments and is enthusiastic about collaborating on programs that address population mental health and enhance health behaviors in the community. His dissertation research is evaluating the predictors of mental health services use in a large integrated primary care system in an academic medical center in Philadelphia, PA. In his personal life, he enjoys spending time with his partner and two cattle dogs. You can find him regularly visiting one of the myriad coffee shops in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia and dropping in for a class at Novem Community Fitness.
Annual SIG Meeting
The Student SIG's annual meeting will occur in-person at the 59th ABCT Convention.
More information will be available soon!