CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Intervention Research in Systemic Family Therapy Topical Research Network (TIN) Annual Conference
September 4-5, 2025
Persisting with Purpose: Building and Sustaining Systemic Research in an Uncertain Landscape

The theme for the 2025 conference is Persisting with Purpose: Building and Sustaining Systemic Research in an Uncertain Landscape. The program will include plenaries and a combination of panels, workshops, paper, and poster sessions that fit under the broader theme. There are three topical areas that submissions should fall within:

1. The Science and Practice of Teaching Systemic Family Therapy Research. Submissions may include advances and unique research instruction strategies, keeping up to date on new methods and analysis, approaches to training grant and policy writing, etc.
2. Building and Sustaining Engaged Research. Submissions may include methods for building partnerships in communities, translating research to support systems and families in the community, adapting to and navigating challenges in the current climate, etc.
3. Building and Sustaining Effectiveness and Outcome Research. Submissions may include cutting edge interventions or clinical research in systemic therapy, how researchers are pivoting in the current climate, funding landscape, and important research questions to ask that address current issues and policies, etc.

We will highlight relevant student/new professional sessions in each topical area.

Abstract Submission Guidelines
You are invited to submit a 300-word abstract for a seminar/workshop, paper presentations, and/or poster.

Abstracts for seminars and workshops should identify which of the topical areas the submission fits under (1-3) and include the following: (a) session objective, (b) description, (c) 3-5 learning objectives. Presenters are expected to facilitate for 1 hour.

Abstracts for both the paper and poster presentations should include the following prompts: (a) relevant background and objectives, (b) methods, including a description of the sample and measures, and analyses, (c) results, and (d) conclusion and clinical research/policy implications. Abstracts of studies with completed results are encouraged, but abstracts with incomplete results are also welcome, with the requirement that the study will be completed by the time of the conference. For the paper presentations, we will gather 3-4 papers centered around a common theme to form a paper session. Each presentation is expected to be 12 minutes long. Posters may address any clinical research topic and are not limited to the three topical areas that are related to the conference theme.

Review Timeline: The portal for submitting abstracts will be open from March 24 through May 2. Decisions about the acceptance of abstracts will be communicated via email by June 1.