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Membership Information
AFTA Members represent a wide diversity of professional disciplines, geographic locations, conceptual and personal orientations. Requirements for membership are essentially a terminal professional degree, five years of post degree clinical experience working with families and five years of experience teaching family therapy or performance of significant research in the field of family therapy or in an allied field. The five categories of membership are:
Clinical Teacher, Research, Family Scholar & Larger Systems Practitioner, Distinguished, and International.
The Early Career Membership Pilot Project [ECM] (June, 2004)
You can apply through the ECM with two years of significant post-graduate teaching, research, or other scholarly or professional work and a nomination from an AFTA member. Click here to read more about the criteria, and contact the AFTA Central Office (afta@afta.org) for more information and an application.
NEW: The Student Membership Pilot Project (June, 2007)
Promising students may be nominated for student membership by an AFTA Member. Students members are mentored by an AFTA member until they are eligible to apply for Early Career Memberhip. Click here to read about the project and the criteria. Post-graduates who do not yet meet the criteria for Early Career Membership may also be nominted for Student Membership. For more information and to receive and application, contact the AFTA Central Office (afta@afta.org).
Information concerning the application process is here.
Dues (2008) are $278 per year; Dues for International and Early Career Members are $139, and Dues for Students are $92.50.
Meetings:
- Annual Meeting
- At AFTA's Annual Meeting experienced family therapists get together with colleagues, share new ideas, follow up with each other on the year's work, and plan new projects. Interest Groups are the core of AFTA, and a meeting ground for those particularly interested in specific areas. Members are encouraged to keep in touch with their Interest Groups during the year between Meetings and to develop new Interest Groups as a way of enriching and broadening the scope of our knowledge.
Other activities at the Annual Meeting include:
- Topic-focused plenary sessions
- Addresses by distinguished speakers from fields allied to family therapy
- 'Brief Presentations' where any member can present his or her work
- Open forums for broad issues such as social policy, diversity, and ethics
- Large dialogue sessions where members can converse on issues such as gender, class, racial, ethnic and economic diversity
- Awards to outstanding professionals within the family field
- Business and Board meetings
- Social time for building networks with peers from across the country
- Bi-Annual Clinical Research Conference
- Every other year there is a Clinical Research Conference where practitioners and research investigators address together subjects of mutual interest. In some years there is a Pre-Meeting Symposium in which a theme of current importance is addressed. This meeting is designed for and open to all health professionals, including AFTA members.
AFTA Monograph Series (formerly AFTA Newsletter):
- AFTA publishes a Monograph once a year.
Subscriptions are available to nonmembers for $16.00/year by writing to:
American Family Therapy Academy, Inc.
1608 20th Street, NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20009
afta@afta.org
We encourage those interested in learning more about AFTA or in applying for membership to contact:
Barbro Miles, Administrative Director
1608 20th Street, NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20009
afta@afta.org
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