It was our honor to have shared the experience of APA 2025 with wonderful presenters, attendees, and the SCCAP community. We were pleased to see so many applied, practice-oriented sessions presented in Denver, CO for the 2025 APA convention! It was lovely convening with our colleagues to share expertise, practice insights, and passion about the field of clinical child and adolescent psychology. The Distinguished Career Contributions to Science award was a special highlight where Dr. Mitch Prinstein shared about his research with a presentation entitled Peers, Life, Teens, Tech, and Impact!

Our SCCAP program at the 2025 APA convention highlighted the importance of our work with children, adolescents, and their families as we face the youth mental health crisis. We had many programming hours dedicated to systems change and implementation science across inpatient and outpatient settings. It is critical to learn from our colleagues enacting this work so that effective, evidence-based intervention may be more accessible to children, adolescents, and their families across the country. The importance of this work was especially notable, as several sessions were left with standing room only. We are proud of our SCCAP members for showcasing their work at APA!

Our members also engaged with our programming at the Embassy Suites, where we had an informal suite that included events held by the Leadership Education to Advance Diversity (LEAD) program and our Special Interest Groups (SIGs). We hope this type of programming provided an opportunity to learn more about SCCAP, network with our members, and share within the SCCAP community. If you were not able to attend the Main Stage and Feature Stage programming, you can still access presentations at https://convention.apa.org/ if you registered for APA.

We are hopeful the presentations at APA 2025 inspired you to stay engaged with SCCAP until next year’s convention!

2026 will be an exciting year for SCCAP! 

APA in Washington D.C.

APA 2026 will be held in Washington D.C. from August 6-8. We are thrilled to add Co-Chair, Samantha Gregus Slade, Ph.D., to the convention programming team! Dr. Slade is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Wichita State University. She has expertise in interventions that reduce risk and promote healthy relationships in underserved youth, with a special interest in school bullying prevention. We appreciate the tremendous contributions her unique perspective will bring to the team!

Posters, Symposia, Critical Conversations, and Skill-Building Sessions: Expected Due Date January 2026

The SCCAP programming at APA provides you with the opportunity to dive into clinical child and adolescent psychology within the larger APA program. We look forward to receiving submissions for posters, symposia, critical conversations, and skill-building sessions. As always, we encourage individuals from marginalized and underrepresented groups to apply and share their unique perspectives. We also encourage proposals that represent the unique needs of underserved and/or underrepresented populations. Lastly, we value our members across settings and degree status (i.e., trainees, early career professionals, practicing psychologists, researchers, and academics) and encourage you to contribute and participate in the proposal submission process!

Be on the lookout for the 2026 Call for Proposals portal on the APA website and on our listserv in late October/early November.