We are accepting six
types of proposal formats including ORAL
PRESENTATIONS, WRITTEN
PRESENTATIONS (POSTERS), CLINICAL
CASES written and oral,
CLINICAL SESSIONS, SYMPOSIUMS,
require an APA (American Psychological
Association) style, all which must
be submitted through our computer
application found at the end of this
page (Click the
SUBMIT ABSTRACT
button). All
submissions require an abstract, which
must be written using APA (American
Psychological Association) style, and
it cannot be less than 250 but no more
than 300 words in length.
Abstracts must include the following
information:
Introduction,
objectives, methods, results and
discussion (Do not include
citations or references).
When the papers
are not strictly research papers,
the methodology that has been
followed must be specified.
The presentations
may be conducted in any of the
official languages of the Congress
(Spanish, English, Portuguese,
Russian and French).
The
scientific committee and the
organizing committee reserve their
right to decide the final format of
any submission for presentation. The
committee will timely inform the
participants about the acceptance or
rejection of the proposals made, once
the submission deadline has expired.
Deadline
for abstract submission is JULY
15, 2019. Only abstracts
submitted through our electronic
application will be considered for
review. The
minimum length for the abstracts is
250 words and the maximum length is
300 words.
The
electronic Book of Abstracts (with its
ISBN designation) will be available
online after the congress is
over. All accepted abstracts
will be included in the Book
Abstracts.
Authors will have the opportunity to
submit one of their presentations for
review and possible publication as a
full-text book chapter. To
submit a chapter proposal for review,
please follow the instructions and use
our electronic application (Click here for
More information).
Those chapters accepted by the
Scientific Committee will be published
in a Book of Chapters with ISBN
designation.
IMPORTANT:
At least one of the authors must be
registered in the Congress before
sending the proposal (in case of a
rejection, the author may request a
refund of a 100% of the registration
payment). Submissions by authors who are
not registered in the Congress will not
be considered for review.
A
registered author can submit a
maximum of three papers, cand
a registered author’s name cannot
appear in more than 5 presentations
(co-authorship and senior authorship
are limited to a maximum of five).
The submission of
papers, is made from the platform at
the end of this page.
The presentation can
only be done by one of the authors
who is registered in the Congress.
Certificate
of presentations will only be issued
to authors and co-authors who are
registered in the Congress. The
certificate will display first and
last name of all
authors.
Certificates
will only be issued for
presentations which are presented at
the scheduled time in the format
specified by the organizers of the
congress.
All
submissions will be presented using one
of the following formats:
ORAL COMMUNICATION
The Scientific Committee
will group the accepted abstract for oral
presentation into one of the symposia
consistent with its topic. The time
allowed for each oral communication is
between 10-20 minutes, depending on the
number of communications in the symposium.
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
(POSTER)
Each poster will be
exhibited for 1 hour and a half during
which the authors must be present to
explain their work to those who are
interested. The Scientific Committee
will group the accepted abstracts in
accordance with the Congress themes and
assigned them to a poster session.
The
size of the poster must be 70x90cm (vertical
format)
CLINICAL CASES
Individual proposals for
clinical cases can be sent, either to be
presented orally or in a written format.
The Committee will group them according
to the topic. All summaries of clinical
cases must include the following
information to be expanded in the poster
presentation:
-Patient's characteristics (no
name)
-Reason for seeking
help
-History of the problem
-Description of the problematic behavior
-Established goals and treatment
-Therapeutic objectives
-Choosing the appropriate treatment
-Choosing and applying evaluation
techniques and results obtained in this
phase
-Application of the treatment
-Evaluating the treatment's efficacy
-Follow up: how and when it was done
-Observations
CLINICAL
SESSION
Each
clinical session will last 1 hour and a
half, allowing four to six clinical
cases presentations (to be presented by
different authors), of 15-10 minutes
each, and an overall discussion of 30
minutes. To send the proposal for the
presentation of a clinical session, the
session's coordinator must present a
general abstract, which will include a
list of all the participants in the
session, plus an individual abstract of
each clinical case.
SYMPOSIUM
Each
symposium will last 1 hour and a half,
allowing for the presentation of four to
six oral communications presented by
different authors. Each communication must
be 10-15 minutes long, depending on the
number of communications in the symposium.
After the individual presentations, an
overall discussion will follow which could
last until the end of the session. To send
a proposal for the presentation of a
symposium, the symposium's coordinator
must submit an overall abstract and
an abstract of each communication
consistent with the instruction in our
digital platform.
For the symposium to be accepted, there
must be an author responsible for
presentation, different for each of the
included communications, that is
previously registered in the congress.
Authors can classify
their communication into any of the
following topics:
Mood disorders: depressive
disorders, bipolar disorders, affective
disorders
Anxiety and Stress Disorders
Sexuality Disorders, and Sexual Identity
Disorders: affectivity and sexuality
Cognitive Disorders: delirium, dementia,
amnesic disorders,...
Schizophrenia and other psychotic
disorders
Sleep Disorders
Youth Clinical Psychology
Personality Disorders
Educational areas: learning problems
Eating Disorders
Pathological game
Somatomorphic Disorders
Adaptative, Dissociative and Factitious
Disorders
Family Violence
Public Health: use and abuse of substances
New Addictions
Atypical Disorders
Chronic Disorders
Autism
Mental Retardation
Environmental/Organizational/Job Health
Other Disorders regarding control of
impulses
Currents Status and Challenge of
psychological Treatments: third generation
therapies
Psychological evaluation
Construction an validation of instruments
Clinical evaluation
Forensic evaluation
Clinical Cases
Other areas related to the Congress's
Themes (specify area)
