2023 Keynote and Invited Speakers

Rinad S. Beidas, is Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Her research leverages insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to help clinicians, leaders, and organizations to use best practices to improve the quality and equity of care and enhance health outcomes. She works across areas including mental health, firearm safety promotion, cancer, HIV, and cardiovascular disease and collaborates closely with key stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, health system leaders, payers, and policymakers. She has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, has led two NIH centers on behavioral economics and implementation science, and is an associate editor for Implementation Science, the flagship journal for the field. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies President’s New Researcher Award; the American Psychological Foundation Diane J. Willis Early Career Award; the Perelman School of Medicine Marjorie Bowman New Investigator Research Award; and the Acenda Institute Research Pioneer Award.

Professional profile: https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=56419

I-CEPS 2023 Masterclasses

Parents under Pressure (PuP) Program

Presented by Professor Sharon Dawe and Associated Professor Paul Harnett

Parenting, emotional regulation and substance use: Investigating the process of change

Improving family functioning and child outcome in families with a multitude of problems – such as parental substance misuse, mental health problems, and parental childhood maltreatment – is essential if we are going to change an intergenerational pattern of adversity. This masterclass will provide an overview of the Parents under Pressure (PuP) program which was developed specifically for families facing multiple adversities. The two central tenets are a focus on parental emotion regulation and the enhancement of safe and nurturing caregiving relationships within the family. PuP has been delivered by over 400 nongovernment and government agencies in Australia and the UK. We will discuss the proposed mechanisms of change with examples from case material and analysis from empirical studies. Determining who may respond best to PuP (moderator analyses) and causal mechanisms drawing from the PuP program logic (mediator analyses) is essential for further development of the program and informs future tailoring of this and other interventions.

@PuPprogram • www.pupprogram.net.au

What's new at I-CEPS 2025?

Themes

Design your own schedule

The theme of the 2025 I-CEPS is “Parenting support: A common pathway to improving diverse outcomes for children and young people.” In line with this theme, the Congress aims to bring together a mix of perspectives to effectively address the varied issues related to parenting support. Learn more about the Congress sub-themes and abstract submission process here.

The main program will run continuously across three 24-hour days (4-6 June 2025). With access to a range of live and recorded presentations, you can design your schedule to fit within an average working day, or block out some time to network with international attendees and presenters.

Improved navigation options and key word searching will make it easier to identify the presentations most relevant to your interests.

Parent Day

We are proud to introduce 'Parent Day,' an event co-designed with parent organisations to facilitate meaningful dialogue and collaboration between parents and professionals. Parent Day will be held on the Congress's fourth day (7 June, 2025). Planned activities include topic-specific parent seminars, skill-building workshops, Q&A sessions with program leaders, and inspirational guest speakers.

Networking opportunities

The program will have dedicated time for live Q&A's, interactive workshops, and Action Circles allowing direct contact with international leaders and presenters in the field of parenting support.

We are also introducing a matchmaking feature to facilitate interactions between participants with similar interests.

Review Criteria

Relevance

Clearly articulates connection with parenting support (broadly defined)
Alignment with one or more I-CEPS themes was specified

Quality

Clear articulation of primary research, practice or policy question/issue
Empirical evidence is available or will be made available by the time of the Congress (NA if the proposal is a description of a practice model or policy approach)
Methods/approach are appropriate to answer research, practice or policy question/issue
Findings/results/implications are clearly presented (if findings/results are not yet available or not applicable for the paper type, how clearly are potential implications discussed?)
At least one contribution to the literature, implication for practice or policy or future research direction is clearly outlined and justified by results

Overall

Expect the topic will be found to be exciting or particularly interesting to I-CEPS participants (e.g., cutting edge research, ‘hot topic’)
Submission was clearly written

Extra points (up to two)

Proposal was conducted in (all or partially) low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Proposal addresses needs in traditionally underrepresented or understudied populations

Submission Options*

Rapid individual paper presentations

We invite the submission of a rapid paper presentation (5 minutes). Rapid papers are best suited for planned, in progress, and pilot projects (e.g., study protocols or brief reports). Submissions should use the following structure where possible—background and objectives, method, results (if applicable) and implications for policy, research and practice.

Individual paper presentations

We invite the submission of a regular paper presentation (15 minutes). Submissions should use the following structure where possible—background and objectives, method, results and implications for policy, research and practice.

Organised paper symposia

We invite the submission of an organised paper symposia. Symposia should consist of 3-4 paper presentations around a single theme, preferably with a discussant that links the papers together and facilitates group discussion. Submissions for symposia should clearly state the objective and format of the session. Presenters will also need to fill out abstract details for each individual paper using the template provided on the abstract submission form.

* Please note the conference organisers reserve the right to move the category of your submission (e.g., an individual paper submission may be re-allocated and accepted as a rapid paper presentation).

Submission Guidelines

All abstracts must be submitted in English
Abstracts must not exceed 550 words. Please use the following sections: Background 100 words; Methods 150 words; Findings 150 words; Implications for policy, research and practice 100 words
Symposia will allow up to four abstract submissions
References are not required
Abstracts should contain text only (no diagrams, links or attachments)
All details should be accurate, as your submission will be reproduced in the Book of Abstracts and Conference Proceedings.
Please select relevant themes and keywords. All presentations will be grouped together by themes and keywords to assist attendee navigation.
All submissions should cover some aspect of parenting, family or implementation science research.

Any submission that does not adhere to these guidelines will not be accepted.

Presentation Guidelines

If accepted, presentations and symposia must be pre-recorded.
All presenters and discussants are required to register and pay to attend the Congress.
Further information about presentation requirements will accompany the notification of acceptance in January 2025.

Australian Registration (GST inclusive)

International Registration

Rinad S. Beidas, is Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Her research leverages insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to help clinicians, leaders, and organizations to use best practices to improve the quality and equity of care and enhance health outcomes. She works across areas including mental health, firearm safety promotion, cancer, HIV, and cardiovascular disease and collaborates closely with key stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, health system leaders, payers, and policymakers. She has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, has led two NIH centers on behavioral economics and implementation science, and is an associate editor for Implementation Science, the flagship journal for the field. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies President’s New Researcher Award; the American Psychological Foundation Diane J. Willis Early Career Award; the Perelman School of Medicine Marjorie Bowman New Investigator Research Award; and the Acenda Institute Research Pioneer Award.

Professional profile: https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=56419

Dr. Tony Biglan is a Senior Scientist at ORI and President of Values to Action. He has been researching the development and prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior for the past 40 years. He has conducted numerous experimental evaluations of interventions to prevent tobacco use, high-risk sexual behavior, antisocial behavior, and reading failure through interventions in families, schools, and communities.

His book, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World, won an award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis. Based on the accumulated knowledge about what humans need to thrive, Dr. Biglan created Values to Action, a nonprofit organization that helps communities come together around a shared vision and create “Action Circles” to implement evidence-based solutions to their most pressing problems.

I-CEPS 2025 Global Ambassadors

Keynote and Invited Presenters

Dr. Philip Fisher is the Diana Chen Professor of Early Childhood Learning in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, where he serves as founding Director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. He is also a Courtesy Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford School of Medicine. His research, which has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies since 1999, focuses on (1) developmental neuroscience of early life adversity, (2) supporting community-based early childhood systems to insure that all children thrive from the start, and on (3) developing tools and identifying pathways to accelerate the pace of early childhood research. He is particularly interested in prevention and programs for improving children's functioning in areas such as relationships with caregivers and peers, social-emotional development, and academic achievement. He is the developer of a number of widely implemented evidence-based interventions for supporting healthy child development in the context of social and economic adversity, including Treatment Foster Care Oregon for Preschoolers (TFCO-P), Kids in Transition to School (KITS), and Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND).