AFTA-

• Serves as a resource for all concerned with the health of the family
• Provides a context in which advanced family therapy clinicians, teachers, and researchers can explore and exchange cutting edge ideas
• Is an active, dynamic, network that undertakes to know about and keep its members informed of all subjects of concern to family clinicians.
• Fosters policies that support the welfare of families and children, social justice, and cultural diversity
• Sponsors Annual Meetings for members where material at the leading edge of family therapy, as well as information from related fields, is presented
• Conducts a biennial Clinical/Research meeting that has received uniformly high praise
• Contributes to international dialogue about family therapy and systemic practices by inviting prominent family therapists throughout the world to participate in AFTA as International Members.
• Publishes a Monograph focusing on current issues in family therapy and systemic practices that is also available by subscription.

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, for they are a meeting ground for those thinking about working in specific areas.

Specialists from other fields are often invited to the Interest Groups for cross-fertilization of new ideas. Members are encouraged to keep in touch with their Interest Groups during the year between Conferences 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; open forums for broad issues such as family policy, diversity, ethics, and credentialing; large dialogue sessions on gender and diversity issues; awards to outstanding professionals within the family field; business and Board meetings; and social time for building networks with peers from across the country.

Monograph Series (formerly Newsletter):

AFTA publishes a Monograph two times a year for its members. Articles from it and previous Newsletter issues can be found on this web site.

Subscriptions are available to nonmembers for $32.00/year by writing to:
American Family Therapy Academy, Inc.
1608 20th Street, NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20009
afta@afta.org