APA Division 29 Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy - APA Convention 2024 Program

Aug 27, 2026

APA Division 29 Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy presents the APA Convention 2024 program, outlining the society’s mission to strengthen psychotherapy’s theoretical and evidentiary foundations while supporting lifelong learning and broad access to psychotherapeutic benefits. The program highlights continuing education opportunities, including CE credit eligibility through registration and scheduled CE sessions. It also provides detailed day-by-day agenda entries with skill-building sessions and symposia focused on emerging practice, measurement-informed psychotherapy, grief, expertise development, cultural comfort, and graduate training self-care.

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Convention Program

Mission and Registration

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Skill Building

Symposium

Friday, August 9, 2024

APA Convention 2024 Convention Program August 8-10, 2024 Welcome to our 2024 Convention program for Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy – APA Division 29 | Tony Rousmaniere, PhD
President, APA Division 29 [trousmaniere@gmail.com](trousmaniere@gmail.com) | Jamie Bedics PhD, ABPP
Program Co-Chair, APA
[j](jbedics@callutheran.edu)[bedics@callutheran.edu](jbedics@callutheran.edu) | Alice Coyne PhD
Program Co-Chair, APA [coyne@american.edu](coyne@american.edu) | | --- | --- | --- | Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy-Mission A strong voice for psychotherapy and home for psychotherapists, the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy is committed to preserving and expanding the theoretical and evidentiary base for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic relationships, supporting life-long learning of psychotherapeutic skills, as well as making the benefits of psychotherapy accessible to all. The Society is an international community of practitioners, scholars, researchers, teachers, health care specialists, and students who are interested in and devoted to the advancement of the practice and science of psychotherapy. Our mission is to provide an active, diverse, and vital community and to generate, share, and disseminate the rapidly accumulating evidence base in clinical science and practice. [https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/mission/](https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/mission/) APA Convention 2024 Register for APA 2024-[https://convention.apa.org/](https://convention.apa.org/) APA 2024 Agenda-[https://convention.apa.org/agenda/agenda-at-a-glance](https://convention.apa.org/agenda/agenda-at-a-glance) [Explore the full program:](Explore the full program:) [https://www.xcdsystem.com/apa/program/euJ3pFp/index.cfm](https://www.xcdsystem.com/apa/program/euJ3pFp/index.cfm) Need CE? [https://convention.apa.org/ce](https://convention.apa.org/ce) New for 2024! Eligibility for one-hour CE Session credits is now included in your registration. You do not need to pay a separate fee to earn CE Session credits. Simply scan in and out of one of the 200+ CE Sessions happening at APA 2024 to earn credits. CE Sessions include a wide variety of topics that cover the breadth and depth of the field of psychology. Looking for more intensive training? Enroll in APA’s separately priced half-day and full-day APA 2024 CE Workshops. These specialty workshops are designed to keep professional psychologists on the cutting edge of practice, education, and science. Thursday, August 8th 10:00 am-10:50 am Skill Building: Building Therapeutic Competencies: Navigating the Stages of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Location: Seattle Convention Center – Chelan 5 Chair: Danielle Herrera Description: This skill-building session will focus on providing attendees with practical skills to enhance their work in the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted therapy. This topic is particularly relevant and useful as the use of psychedelics in therapeutic settings gains increasing attention and acceptance. 11:00 am-11:50 am Symposium -Some discoveries are unique to routine outcome measurement (ROM)—and here’s how you can join in. Location: Seattle Convention Center, Level 1, Room 620 Chair: Stevan Nielsen Description: We will present psychotherapy patterns discovered through routine outcome measurement (ROM), patterns that could only be discovered in ROM data. We will also describe our own committee oriented (ROMCom) approach that has facilitated collaborative research and dissemination of such findings. 12:00 PM – 12:50PM Skill Building: The Lingering Shadow: Complicated Grief in a Post-Crisis Era Location: Seattle Convention Center, Level 1, Room Yakima 2 Chair: Patti Savage Description: The widespread loss, trauma, and isolation related to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant increase in delayed and prolonged complicated grief. This session provides clarification of

FAQs

What does the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy focus on?

It is committed to preserving and expanding psychotherapy’s theoretical and evidentiary base, supporting lifelong learning of psychotherapeutic skills, and making the benefits of psychotherapy accessible to all.

How can attendees earn CE Session credits at APA 2024?

One-hour CE Session credit eligibility is included in registration. Attendees earn credits by scanning in and out of one of the 200+ CE sessions during the convention.

What types of sessions are included in the program for August 8, 2024?

The agenda includes skill-building sessions and symposia, each with a stated location, chair, and description covering topics such as psychedelic-assisted therapy competencies, routine outcome measurement discoveries, complicated grief, expertise development, cultural comfort, and self-care training.

Aug 27, 2026

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