Pre-Convention Deep Dives are longer than a symposia, but shorter than a workshop (2 hours total). Topics addressed should be similar to symposia or workshop, and we welcome new and innovative ways or presenting your information. Deep Dives will occur on Thursday morning.

Roundtables are an opportunity for attendees to gather around a specific topic or issue. They are traditionally a forum for debate, often including discussion of diverse opinions or intellectual positions.  We encourage the traditional roundtable format for emerging topics and controversies.  At the same time, we also would like to use this format to offer opportunities for attendees to evolve professionally and occupationally. Session time slots will be 1.5 hours. Topics welcomed include for example:

• Emerging or controversial topics in personality assessment
• Bringing science and clinical practice together
• Building strategies to advance public knowledge of the utility of personality assessment
• Career Strategy
• Organization and Financial Considerations for Private Practice
• Preventing Burnout and Career-Family Balance
• Trainings or Diplomate Degrees
• Advice to Progress into Leadership Positions
• Advertising or the Use of Media to Enhance Private Practice
• How to Access Open-Source Data for Research
• How to Obtain Government Contracts or Grants

Symposia are a group of professional talks on theory, research, or practice. These sessions entail the presentation of a series of papers in which presenters make an effort to integrate the content of the papers with one another. Integration can be achieved in a number of ways (for example, presenters may comment on one another’s papers, or a discussant may provide a commentary integrating the material in the papers). Presenters may range from students to seasoned professionals. Symposia require joint submission of papers, typically by the session organizer, who chairs the session. Generally, papers are allowed 15 minutes for presentation and questions, but the session organizer may prepare a program with fewer, but longer, presentations at their discretion. Session time slots will be 1.5 hours. 

If you need help identifying an expert in the field to talk about the important implications of your symposium for the next generation of psychologists and the future of assessment, the Education & Training Interest Group has several leading personality assessment experts who would love to serve as a discussant for your symposium. Please email the co-chairs, Dr. Scott L. Schwartz and Dr. Adam P. Natoli to be connected with an expert in the field willing to be a discussant for your symposium.