Frequently Asked Questions

AACN is pleased to again offer all-in-one pricing for the 2021 Conference. As such, your registration fee provides access to 100% of the conference content, including 33 sessions of pre-recorded and live content for a total of 70 CE credits. Recordings will remain available for three months after the conclusion of the conference (i.e., September 12, 2021).

Effective January 1, 2021, the State of New York began requiring each Licensed Psychologist to complete 36 hours of approved continuing education courses for each triennial registration period. In February 2021, AACN submitted its application to the State Education Department to be an approved CE provider.  As soon as we have more information, we will update this page. For now, we are an approved provider of CE credits through the American Psychological Association and are waiting to hear back from the State of New York.

After you view the pre-recorded content, you will complete a CE evaluation form that includes some quiz questions. When you complete it successfully, the certificate will display the date on which you completed the form, not the date on which the video first became available or when you viewed it.

The totality of the conference content is available to attendees this year! You do not need to formally select any workshops or sessions as a result. Simply view all of the pre-recorded sessions that interest you once they are available and join as many of the live Q&A sessions as you want. CE credit will be awarded based on completing a post-workshop evaluation form and passing a quiz based on its content.

Workshop presentations will largely be pre-recorded but also feature a live question and answer session. The pre-recorded content will be released as soon as it becomes available (but no later than two weeks before the live Q&A content).

As such, the pre-recorded content will start to appear in 2021 and be available in its entirety on May 26, 2021 (two weeks before the live Q&A sessions). This will allow attendees plenty of time to view the pre-recorded material. The live Q&A sessions will then follow on the dates that the conference was originally scheduled to occur: June 9-12, 2021. CE credit will be awarded based on completion of a post-workshop evaluation form and passing a quiz based on its content. No additional CE will be awarded from attending the live Q&A session, though you are encouraged to do so.

Attendees will receive emails informing them of the availability of conference material, including workshop handouts and pre-recorded content. All material will appear here on the AACN website conference pages. For each session, there will be links to the handout, pre-recorded presentation, live Q&A session, and post-event CE evaluation form. Everything will be conveniently centralized on these pages for easy access. Once registered, all you need to access the material is a computer or mobile device with an Internet connection.

Attendees will have access to the pre-recorded content and live Q&A material during the conference and for up to three months after its conclusion (i.e., September 12, 2021). This interval will provide plenty of time to view and enjoy all of the material. We do not allow any recordings to be saved, although you are welcome and encouraged to keep your copy of the workshop handouts.

The abstract submission deadline was January 31, 2021 at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time. Abstracts are no longer being accepted. For abstracts that were accepted, the poster submission deadline is March 25 for abstracts accepted in 2020 and April 25 for abstracts accepted in 2021.

We could not hold the 2020 conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Once this was announced, abstract authors were notified and given a choice to (1) present their poster at the 2021 conference, or (2) withdraw their abstract and submit it elsewhere. Every author who opted to present his/her poster at the 2021 conference is on track to do so. Your abstract has already been accepted; there is no need to resubmit it.

All posters will be available on the conference website for attendees to access throughout the duration of the conference week. There will be a discussion board for each poster where attendees can leave comments/questions for the authors. 

There will also be a live remote poster session component (see agenda for Thursday June 10, and make sure to select your time zone). Authors choose whether they will participate in the live component, and those who do will be given a Zoom room where interested attendees may join remotely to interact with the presenting author and discuss the work.

Given the ongoing challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, AACN leadership decided not to hold an in-person event as planned in Portland, OR in 2021. This was a difficult decision, but making it far in advance allows everyone to plan accordingly and still enjoy high-quality conference content from the safety of one's home or office.

The virtual format of the conference will allow you to access the handouts and pre-recorded portions of workshops before June. You may watch them on your own schedule. If you are unable to attend the live Q&A portions of the workshops, we will be recording them and making them available to everyone a few days later. All recordings will remain available to registered attendees for three months after the conference ends (i.e., September 12, 2021).

Yes, one may still earn all the CEs that the conference offers by viewing the material within the three months after the live Q&A sessions and completing a post-workshop evaluation form that includes a quiz based on its content. No additional CE will be awarded from attending the live Q&A session, though you are encouraged to do so.

Not at all! AACN welcomes members and non-members to its conference every year. Current AACN active, senior, and student members, as well as non-certified affiliates, receive discounted rates on conference registration. You are welcome to join AACN as a student member or non-certified affiliate to enjoy the same savings!

The live Q&A sessions are listed by default in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone (UTC-4:00). However, please see the live Q&A agenda where there is an option to adjust the time zone to those used in North America. To join the live sessions, please adjust the listed time to your time zone. We have scheduled the sessions in late morning/early afternoon to accommodate our friends on the West Coast, Hawaii, and Alaska. We welcome international attendees as well! If the live Q&A times are not easily workable for you, please know that they will be recorded and available to you a few days later.

AACN receives funds from various test companies and publishers to provide financial support for receptions during the conference; however, no financial support is provided for individual workshops that offer CE credit.

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