[Biomedical-cybernetics] The #10 reason for submitting an abstract for the 26th Annual International SCTPLS Conference

[Guastello, Stephen]

The #10 reason for submitting an abstract for this year’s conference is…

It’s the best place for clinical psychologists to discover that
“Sensitive” and “Dependence” have
Nothing to do with neurosis!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS

  To present at the

Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences
26th Annual International Conference
29-31 JULY, 2016
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT USA

Submissions deadline is April 30, 2016

Celebrating 25 years!

Submit your abstract(s) electronically at

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp

Join us at the conference with our fabulous keynote speakers Gus  
Koehler and Glenda H. Eoyang! Contemporary conditions across our  
planet have long been issuing a "clarion call" for nonlinear dynamical  
understandings and methods to address them. This year's keynote  
speakers are particularly attuned to this reality and intimate with  
ways we can engage it. They have designed their talks to make  
inspiring, compelling, clear, and practical linkages to broaden and  
deepen our thinking and applications across the interdisciplinary  
breadth and areas of practice evident in the Society.
  First, let us introduce you to Gus Koehler who received his Ph.D. in  
Political Science and Sociology from the University of California at  
Davis. He was Principal Investigator in a multi-partner National  
Science Foundation Biocomplexity Incubation Grant to develop,  
visualize, and apply his theory of time-ecology and heterochrony to  
govern-ment-industry clusters. Spin-off activities included research  
on time related issues and strategies for the California Legislative  
Com-mittee to Prepare California for the 21st Century and public  
policy time specialist roles in a RAND Complexity Workshop for the  
White House Science and Technology Series and in the EU’s Foresight  
for Transport, ICCR. He was an Adjunct in Public Policy and Regional  
Development at several California universities.

His current research focuses on the temporal / space related aspects  
of complex systems theory. Topics include disaster response, time and  
simulations, public policy for industry clusters, risk perception, and  
relational spaces of complex systems. He is involved in a number of  
business and charitable organizations and is a volunteer Buddhist  
Chaplin at Folsom Prison in Sacramento and Board Member of Buddhist  
Prison Pathways Project. He has been a member of SCTPLS nearly as long  
as it’s been in existence.

You will learn more about Gus as the conference date approaches. Now  
for ways you and your work can make a contribution…

We invite scholars and practitioners interested in working together to  
turn one of the best-kept secrets on the planet into THE WAY to  
research nonlinear dynamical systems and to develop practice- 
approaches that will serve the world in areas such as healthcare,  
education/academia, as well as our social and physical environment.  
Presentations and conversations will explore practice applications and  
enhance knowledge of chaos theory, fractals, complex systems and  
related topics. Over the years, the annual conferences of the Society  
for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences have inspired and  
supported people from many disciplines to become leaders in  
theoretical, empirical and practice applications. Steadily, we are  
building a knowledge base that provides an integrated approach to life  
sciences, health and wellness, global peace and environmental  
sustainability.

  INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACTS

Length

·       Abstracts are between 150-250 words for posters, individual  
papers, short workshops and other alternative formats. Clear  
connections to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals or  
related concepts are important. Include each speaker or author’s  
organizational affiliation and/or contact information.
·       Abstracts for symposia or panel discussions may be longer at  
up to 500 words. For symposia, it is important to include the content  
of EACH speaker's contribution. The typical format for a symposium is  
for all speakers to give presentations with time following for  
discussion. The typical format for a panel discussion is inquiry-based  
and dialogic. Please communicate the theme of your research or  
practice-based applications of nonlinear science within the title of  
your abstract.

Content

·       For experimental work, you will want the background, aims and  
framework, mode of inquiry, methods and samples, outcomes, conclusions  
and implications to be clear and explicit.
·       For panel discussions, you will want to provide a brief  
overview of and introduction to the topic, relevant background of  
panelists and sample questions that will be used to prompt your panel  
member discussion.
·       For symposia or workshops, you will want to describe your  
current research, the techniques you used for conducting your research  
and how it applies to nonlinear behavioral, social and/or life  
science. Please emphasize the skills and new learning that attendees  
can expect to acquire.
·       For all abstracts: Assist the reader in understanding your  
connection to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals and/or  
related concepts. Please highlight the overall value added to your  
area of practice (e.g., introduces a new method, information,  
perspective, issue; calls into question, confirms present knowledge or  
clarifies understanding).
·       Choose a category: The web-submission form allows you to  
select from the following: 1) Empirical (e.g., presentation of  
empirical results of a study), 2) Theoretical (e.g., empirically  
testable theoretical development), 3) Applied (e.g., social, cultural,  
organizational and/or inter-relational dynamics; business, product and/ 
or marketing development; practice-based applications involving  
clinical interventions), 4) Quantitative (e.g., computational or  
statistical modeling), 5) Qualitative (e.g., non-quantitative analysis  
of empirical data), 6) Philosophical or artistic (e.g., epistemology,  
philosophy of science, aesthetics, or audio-visual demonstrations).

Additional Information

·        Each person may submit up to two presentations as first  
author and serve as co-author on additional work submitted by others.
·       All presenters are invited to prepare your papers for possible  
publication in the Society’s peer reviewed research journal Nonlinear  
Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.NDPLS uses American  
Psychological Association (APA) style. Click JOURNAL on the SCTPLS web  
site to access Instructions for Authors. NDPLS accepts manuscripts all  
through the year, but please use October 1, 2016 as the target date  
for submitting to allow us to make up a special Conference  
Presentations issue.

REGISTRATION for the conference and workshops is now open at

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/





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