American Family Therapy Academy

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Registration is limited to a maximum of 350 attendees in order to keep this event to a size where it will be easy for members and non-members to interact. Only a limited number of spaces are available for non-members.

AFTA's Mission Statement

Founded in 1977, the American Family Therapy Academy is a non-profit organization of leading family therapy teachers, clinicians, program directors, policy makers, researchers, and social scientists dedicated to advancing systemic thinking and practices for families in their social context.

Through diversity in its membership, continuous dialogue, collaborative interchange, and commitment to social justice, AFTA flourishes as a learning organization that offers value to its members and those whom they serve.*

*To learn more about AFTA and its approach to social justice, please see the social justice page.

Objectives

• To advance theories, therapies, research and professional education that regard the family as a unit in a social context.
• To promote research and professional education in family therapy and allied fields.
• To make information about family therapy available to practitioners in other fields of knowledge and to the public.
• To foster the collaboration among the medical, psychological, social, legal and other professions that serve families and the science and practice of family therapy.

Members

Access information about Interest Groups and Committees and get pdfs of all AFTA Updates on the "For Members" pages (see menu in column above left).