Submission Deadline: 5 PM Pacific Time, October 1, 2005.
Submit your presentation using our secure online form (preferred). For details on what information to have on hand before starting, download the Call for Papers packet, which also includes a mail-in form (need Adobe Reader?). New this year is the option to upload files with your presentation: CVs, abstracts, etc. (plain text, Word, or PDF format).

Call for Papers
The California Association for Behavior Analysis invites persons engaged in research, teaching, and/or practice in behavior analysis to submit proposals for presentations at the 24th Western Regional Conference on Behavior Analysis, to be held February 16-18, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, CA.

Presentations on conceptual, experimental, and applied behavior analysis are desired, including research studies, technical presentations, case studies, and program descriptions. Commentaries and reviews of methodological, legal, ethical, social, philosophical, and historical issues are welcome, as are presentations in areas such as behavioral medicine, behavioral pharmacology, behavioral neuroscience, physiology, biology, psychology, and education. The conference general session will be February 16 and 17; workshops will be offered on February 18 only.

ATTENTION STUDENTS AND FACULTY!

Call for submissions for the 2006 CalABA Julie Vargas Award. Deadline: December 1, 2005

PRESENTATION FORMATS

Address

An address is an individual oral presentation, usually reporting research or discussing a conceptual, historical, methodological, professional, or applied topic. All addresses are 50 minutes in duration.

Symposium

A symposium comprises a series of presentations organized around an empirical, conceptual, methodological, historical, or practical theme, organized and submitted by a chairperson who moderates the session. There may be 3 or 4 presentations, followed by remarks from a discussant intended to integrate the presentations. Symposia are 80 minutes in duration.

Poster

Posters consist of visual displays of information, usually reporting empirical research. Posters are organized into poster sessions by the Conference Committee. Presenters will have 15 minutes prior to the session to set up the poster, and must remove all materials within 15 minutes after the end of the session.

Workshop

A workshop is an intensive educational session presented by an individual or team of individuals. The audience is expected to gain skills or knowledge that they can apply in their work. This is typically accomplished through active audience participation and, when feasible, skill practice. Workshop presenters must provide appropriate handouts to reduce note-taking requirements, and encourage application of workshop content. CalABA will duplicate a reasonable quantity of handouts if given sufficient advance notice. Submissions for workshops must indicate the level of skill required for audience members to benefit from the workshop (i.e., introductory, intermediate, advanced). Workshops are either 3 hours or 6 hours in duration.

IMPORTANT: SUBMITTING EVENTS FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION CONSIDERATION

CalABA is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the following organizations:

• Behavior Analyst Certification Board (for BACB Type 2, or approved, continuing education)
• California Board of Psychology Mandatory Continuing Education Program for Psychologists (MCEP)
• California Board of Behavioral Sciences
• California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board

The CalABA Professional Standards Committee is responsible for managing CalABA’s continuing education program. We are committed to providing a number of quality continuing education opportunities at the 2006 conference for Board Certified Behavior Analysts® and Board Certified Associate Behavior Analysts®, as well as California licensed psychologists, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, associate social workers, licensed educational psychologists, and certified speech-language pathologists and audiologists.

Not every presentation at the CalABA conference can be offered for continuing education for every category of certificant or licensee, however, because each of the accrediting organizations has specific standards for continuing education events and instructors with which CalABA must comply. Therefore, the Professional Standards Committee asks everyone who submits a proposal for an address, symposium, or workshop at the CalABA conference to review the Continuing Education section of the submission form to see if your presentation might qualify for continuing education units (CEUs). If it does, we strongly encourage you to provide the information requested to enable the Professional Standards Committee to determine if your presentation can be offered for CEUs. Why? Because if your presentation is approved for continuing education for one or more professions, it will:

• help attract an audience for your presentation
• help ensure that professionals attending the conference keep up with developments in the field
• help maintain the integrity and vitality of the field
• support CalABA and its continuing education program