# 2019 annual meeting: Atlanta, GA
## Business at the SIG Meeting

Link to GoogleDoc for rapid updating.

### 1. Presentation of Johnson-Youngstrom Poster Award

Congratulations to Rachel Vaughn-Coaxum!
Her poster examined the impact of childhood adversity on disruptions in cognitive functioning and mood disorders that are relevant to treatment outcomes. It was a secondary analysis of depressive symptoms and trajectory over time from middle childhood through late adolescence based on a longitudinal study, and focused on those who experienced childhood maltreatment and whether it’s related to symptom course and attention. Those who did have a history of maltreatment and more inattention had more severe symptoms earlier in the course of disorder and tended to stabilize over time, which is consistent with epidemiological literature that suggests childhood maltreatment has a stronger impact in earlier ages.

### 2. Dues

Dues are $20/year for faculty and students are requested to contribute what they can. Submit payment online via PayPal, to Lauren's GMail account (see email).
The dues are vital to supporting the Student Poster Award!

### 3. Upgrading information about Bipolar Disorder on Wiki

* Edit articles on Wikipedia
* Build articles and resources on Wikiversity
* Open Access articles with fast track to Wikipedia

### 5. Old business: Follow-up from previous suggestions for improving listserv

* Create a list: Name, email, current projects
** This is started on the home page for the SIG
* When preparing talks, compile symposiums. SIG members could submit talks, and the SIG can compile symposiums and submit.
** Proposal: Use the OSF.io project as a way of archiving & sharing
* Sending around information, job offers, etc.
** Definitely could do; just need to remember in the coming year!
* Organizing ABCT bipolar SIG at ISBD
** ISBD is most familiar with the idea of a Task Force. Do we want to propose a psychotherapy TF?
** Culture TF is going to work on extending the translations of assessments
** Child TF may also engage with project to do WikiJournal of Medicine article on psychotherapy.
Next meeting is in Chicago in June 2020; poster submissions due in January 2020
* Build BD assessment battery matrix
Need a "water carrier" for this -- have multiple meta-analyses that would inform decisions.
* Recommendations for core measures for a standard, including neurocognition

### 6. Other conference submissions

We want to raise the visibility of psychology-related work on bipolar disorder, both at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, and at general psychology and psychiatry conferences.
To that end, here are some links to different meetings (feel free to add). Let's aim to get 2-3 symposia submitted to ABCT in March 2020!
* Symposium submissions

## Breakout Groups
### Mentoring break-outs

* Bipolar research in the RDoC/mechanism era - strategies for being competitive in today’s funding climate
* Most critical questions in child/adolescent mood disorder research
* Available career paths in clinical and research realms
* Challenges and obstacles to a successful academic/research career

### Themes from breakouts

Different career paths
Transdiagnostic interests and realities

## Meeting Notes
### Bipolar SIG history

Started 7 years ago to bring together people who have an interest in bipolar by Eric Youngstrom and Sheri Johnson There’s also a listserv! We're getting everyone added

### What is HGAPS?

Putting content on Wikipedia and Wikiversity to disseminate psychology
* Wikipedia is public facing, Wikiversity is more clinician facing
* Notes from this SIG are being put on Wikiversity
* Google Docs is used to collect notes quickly in real time
Think about how you might convert content from a poster to a symposium paper to ≥ engage with other people in the bipolar SIG
* Symposia (and poster) submissions due in March for ABCT 2020
* Also think about ISBD (posters due early January) in Chicago 2020, Tokyo 2021

### Increasing SIG engagement

Original ABCT SIG page was created a couple years ago
* ABCT SIG page was created a couple years ago
* OSF is a free way of archiving posters
** Can add handouts, abstracts, etc
** Just need to send to an email address
Eric took some pictures to put up on social media and the Wiki pagw
* First year that the page has pictures! Yay!
Got everyone's email to continue the discussion over the listserv
* Technically you would be a dues-paying member to be on it, but they're independent
The members of the SIG need to be members of ABCT (even if unofficially you have non-ABCT members)
* Would like to try expanding members of the listserv
** Victoria has list of emails from attendees to add to the listserv
* Reach out to ISBD psychologists
** Eric will send an invitation to join over the ISBD mailing list in December.
Email Victoria and Amy if you have ideas on how to make the SIG more ~FunDuctive~!

### ISBD

* ~800 people, more consumer engagement than most meetings
* Membership is primarily MDs with a lot of psychiatry representation
** We want to get more psychologists there to present and participate