On Board with Professional Psychology is requesting brief articles for our next issue, to be published in December 2025. Please consider submitting pieces that would be broadly informative to ABPP specialists across disciplines, as well as pieces that address hot topics from within your speciality. We particularly encourage cross-specialty collaborations and pieces representing a diversity of perspectives. We welcome your pitches and ideas.
Potential topics may include:
- Current topics in your field. What are people within your specialty talking about?
- Exciting new projects being done by specialists
- Methods for attracting new candidates to your specialty
- Topics relevant to specialists’ work and training (e.g. license mobility, recent legislation, prescription privileges, training programs and standards)
- Highlighting specialists working with unique populations, or in unique settings
- Specialists using their credentials in interesting ways (e.g. working with the legal system, working in multidisciplinary settings, creating specialty clinics, playing pivotal roles in training programs and organizational systems)
- Using research, services, or expertise to solve real-world problems
- Topics relevant to the ABPP psychologist workforce
- Organizational updates and strategic plans within ABPP
- Opportunities and events for further training
- Cross-specialty collaborations
- Obituaries and in memoria
Writers should submit pitches (a few sentences detailing your proposal) or ideas to the Editorial Team before submitting full articles. Submit pitches through our online Submission Form, or by emailing the Editor, Dr. Alexander Khaddouma, at editor@abpp.org.
Once pitches are approved, the deadline for full submissions is September 30, 2025 for inclusion in the December 2025 issue.
Articles will be 500-1500 words in length, written in an easily understandable and succinct style, and may include links to other websites or references. At least one author of the article must be an ABPP board-certified specialist. All submissions will be reviewed by the ABPP Communications Committee prior to publication and submitted for a peer-review process.