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| ABAI Annual Business Meeting |
| Monday, May 26, 2025 |
| 7:00 AM–8:00 AM |
| Marriott Marquis, M4 Level, Supreme Court |
| Chair: Mark Galizio (University of North Carolina Wilmington) |
| Presenting Authors: MARIA MALOTT (Association for Behavior Analysis International), MITCH FRYLING (California State University, Los Angeles), BENJAMIN N. WITTS (St. Cloud State University), RAMONA HOUMANFAR (University of Nevada, Reno), CLAUDIA DROSSEL (Eastern Michigan University), JONATHAN W. PINKSTON (University of Kansas), GORDON BOURLAND (Trinity Behavioral Associates), ROCIO ROSALES (University of Massachusetts Lowell), JOVONNIE L. ESQUIERDO-LEAL (California State University, Fresno) |
The purpose of the annual meeting of members is for ABAI leadership to provide an update on the ongoing activities of and major developments in the association. |
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 Award for Distinguished Contributions to DEI: Affirmative Behavior Therapy: What Is It and Who Does the Affirming? |
| Monday, May 26, 2025 |
| 9:00 AM–9:50 AM |
| Marriott Marquis, M2 Level, Marquis Salon 1-5 |
| 📺 Streaming Status: session is complete - recording is pending |
| Area: DEI |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |
| Chair: Kaitlynn Gokey (Florida Institute of Technology) |
| CE Instructor: Christopher Robert Martell, Ph.D. |
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| Award for Distinguished Contributions to DEI: Affirmative Behavior Therapy: What Is It and Who Does the Affirming? |
| Abstract: This address provides a review of the work of Christopher Martell, 2025 recipient of the ABAI Diversity Award. Dr. Martell was first author of a 2004 book on providing Cognitive Behavioral Therapies in an affirmative manner with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, the first such book to do this. Affirmative therapies not only apply to sexual or gender minority individuals. The admonition “nothing about us without us” from various disability and diversity advocates is relevant in work with any minoritized or marginalized groups. Affirmative behavior analysis accounts for the role of culture and can provide insight into behavioral change that is relevant to individuals and non-discrimatory. Dr. Martell will speak to the process by which affirmative CBT for LGB clients was begun, and how taking an affirmative stance can extend to functional analytic treatments like behavioral activation. |
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| CHRISTOPHER MARTELL (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
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 Christopher Martell, Ph.D., ABPP is Director of the Psychological Services Center and Professor of Practice in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Martell is first author of one of the first books on CBT with sexual minority clients, and has co-authored many chapters and articles on affirmative care with sexual minority and gender diverse clients. He was in private practice in Seattle, Washington for 23 years prior to turning his attention to training the next generation of students. He has conducted workshops around the world on topics of behavioral interventions for depression, and on conducting LGBTQ+ affirmative CBT. Dr. Martell is known internationally for his work on Behavioral Activation (BA) in the treatment of depression and other disorders, and provides clinical consultation and training on BA worldwide. |
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| Presidential Scholar Address: Unhinging Design from Darwinian and Skinnerian Selection |
| Monday, May 26, 2025 |
| 6:00 PM–6:50 PM |
| Marriott Marquis, M2 Level, Marquis Salon 1-5 |
| 📺 Streaming Status: session is complete - recording is pending |
| Instruction Level: Basic |
| Chair: Kent Johnson (Morningside Academy) |
| CE Instructor: Kent Johnson, Ph.D. |
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Presidential Scholar Address: Unhinging Design from Darwinian and Skinnerian Selection |
| Abstract: Darwin explained how purposeful and foresightful design could be unhinged from natural selection. Skinner followed suit for selection by reinforcement. These complementary selectionist ideas together with cultural selection now represent the prime pillars of evolutionary thought in biological and behavioral science. |
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| EDWARD WASSERMAN (University of Iowa) |
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 Edward Wasserman received his B.A. from UCLA and his Ph.D. from Indiana University. His only academic home has been The University of Iowa, where he is the Stuit Professor Experimental Psychology. He was President of the Comparative Cognition Society as well as President of Divisions 3 (Experimental Psychology), 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology), and 25 (Behavior Analysis) of APA. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. And, he has received the Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from Division 6 of APA, the Career Research Award from the Comparative Cognition Society, the Distinguished Contributions to Basic Behavioral Research Award from Division 25 of APA, and the Gantt Medal from the Pavlovian Society. He has edited four volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition, and he has recently authored, As if by Design: How Creative Behaviors Really Evolve. Wasserman has published extensively in the areas of comparative cognition and perception with support from NSF, NIMH, NEI, NICHD, and HFSP. |
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| ABAI Social |
| Monday, May 26, 2025 |
| 7:00 PM–10:30 PM |
| Marriott Marquis, Street Level, Lobby |
Join your friends and colleagues for one last night of music, dancing, and celebration! |
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