Register Your Community Using ABCT’s New, HIPAA-compliant Partner Vot-ER

We are delighted to announce a new and exciting partnership between ABCT and Vot-ER—a nonpartisan 501c3 that uses healthcare settings to register patients, coworkers, and community members to vote or make a plan to vote safely. Using Vot-ER’s online platform, individuals—you, your patients, staff, students, any eligible voter–can check their voter registration status, choose to register to vote, or request a mail-in ballot.

ABCT will have a unique QR code and link (see below) that individuals can scan or visit. As part of this partnership, ABCT members can request a Healthy Democracy Kit which features information, flyers, posters for your offices or labs, and scripts about the voter registration or vote by mail process. You can also request free digital kits or site-based physical resources including our unique ABCT voter registration badges. Materials are available in English and Spanish.

You can even add the QR code to your email signature with the following:

Are you registered to vote? Are you sure? You can check here:

Go ahead, give it a try.

Importantly, Vot-ER’s work is based on principles of behavioral economics. ABCT will have a dashboard tracking aggregate and deidentified access, engagement, and registration outcomes. We love data! Also of note, Vot-ER’s work is fully HIPAA compliant. More questions? Check out their FAQ page.

Are YOU registered to vote? Are you sure?

If you would like to discuss additional ways to promote voting in your communities, please feel free to email ABCT President Sandra S. Pimentel: [email protected].

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a type of treatment that is based firmly on research findings. It places emphasis on changing your cognitions (thoughts) or behaviors (actions) in order to effect change in how you feel. These approaches help people in achieving specific changes or goals.

Changes or goals might involve:

A way of acting: like smoking less or being more outgoing;
A way of feeling: like helping a person to be less scared, less depressed, or less anxious;
A way of thinking: like learning to problem-solve or get rid of self-defeating thoughts;
A way of dealing with physical or medical problems: like reducing back pain or helping a person stick to a doctor’s suggestions.

Cognitive behavioral therapists usually focus more on the current situation and its solution, rather than the past. They concentrate on a person’s views and beliefs about their life. CBT is an effective treatment for individuals, parents, children, couples, and families. The goal of CBT is to help people improve and gain more control over their lives by changing behaviors that don’t work well to ones that do.

How to Get Help

If you are looking for help, either for yourself or someone else, you may be tempted to call someone who advertises in a local publication or who comes up from a search of the Internet. You may, or may not, find a competent therapist in this manner. It is wise to check on the credentials of a psychotherapist. It is expected that competent therapists hold advanced academic degrees. They should be listed as members of professional organizations, such as the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies or the American Psychological Association. Of course, they should be licensed to practice in your state. You can find competent specialists who are affiliated with local universities or mental health facilities or who are listed on the websites of professional organizations. You may, of course, visit our website (www.abct.org) and click on “Find a CBT Therapist”

The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) is an interdisciplinary organization committed to the advancement of a scientific approach to the understanding and amelioration of problems of the human condition. These aims are achieved through the investigation and application of behavioral, cognitive, and other evidence-based principles to assessment, prevention, and treatment.