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• Association for Conflict Resolution - Annual Conference. "Aspirations, Possibilities, and Realities:Expanding Principles, Practice, and Research in a Changing World." Hilton Austin, Austin, Texas. September 24-27, 2008.
• Chadwick Center for Children and Families - 23rd Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment. Town and Country Resort & Convention Center. January 26 - 30, 2009
• Collaborative Family Health Care Association - 10th Annual Conference: "Collaboration: The Key to the Medical Home." Grand Hyatt, Denver, Colorado. November 6 - 9, 2008
• Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma - 13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (formerly International Conference on Family Violence). "Promoting Peace: Integrating Research, Practice and Policy." Town and Country Resort and Conference Center, San Diego, CA. September 14-17, 2008.
• International Congress of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapists - 2008 Conference in San Diego, California. September 1-13, 2008.
• International Family Therapy Association - XVII World IFTA Congress 2009. Slovenia. March 4-7, 2009. Submit abstracts by September 15, 2008.
• Monash University School of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences - International Conference: "Children and the Law: International approaches to children and their vulnerabilities." Prato, Tuscany, September 7-10, 2009
• Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology - Annual GSAPP Cultural Conference: Meeting the Needs of Multicultural Communities & 21st Century Families. Douglass Campus Center, Rutgers University,New Brunswick, NJ. October 3rd, 2008
• World Psychiatric Association - Culture and Mental Health:Emerging Trends in Psychotherapy and Social Programs, International and Cuban Approaches.Palacio de Convenciones, Havana, Cuba, Febuary 1 - 6, 2009
• World Psychiatric Association - "Culture and Mental Health: Emerging Trends in Psychotherapy and Social Programs (International and Cuban Approaches)." Palacio de Convenciones, Havana, Cuba. February 1 - 6, 2009

• AAMFT Therapist Locator - This site contains profiles of AAMFT Clinical Members, including photographs, achievements, and practice description. The site also contains important information about a variety of problems facing today's families. Questions and comments about TherapistLocator.net can be directed to central@aamft.org.
• Alternatives to Marriage Project - Advocates equality and fairness for unmarried people
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - Designed to serve both AACAP Members, and Parents and Families, this site provides information as a public service to aid in the understanding and treatment of the developmental, behavioral, and mental disorders which affect an estimated 7 to 12 million children and adolescents at any given time in the United States.
• APA style-guide for preparation of manuscripts
• Articles, Research & Resources in Psychology - Information on Therapy, Ethics, Malpractice, Forensics, Critical Thinking (and a few other topics) compiles by Ken Pope, Ph.D. He also maintains sites on Accessibility & Disability, and Animal related issues.
• Behavenet
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conducts research and analysis to inform public debates over proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered in these debates.
• Child Trends - Organization devoted to the study of children, youth, and families
• Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina - Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina. Research on Multisystemic Therapy.
• Fast Track Project - Multi-site intervention study designed to prevent serious, chronic antisocial behavior in children
• Free Translation
• Geno-Pro: Free genogram software
• Integrated Primary Care - A resource and networking site for people interested in the integration of behavioral health into primary care. Special attention is paid to integrating care for low income and underserved populations. Includes listing of training programs for professionals and a bibliography offered.
• Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University
• Minnesota Program Development, Inc. - Nonprofit corporation that works toward the eliomination of violence in the lives of women and their children
• National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - Conducts and supports laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiological, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of chidlren, adults, families and populations
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Science Foundation
• Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays - Devoted to promoting the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gendered persons, their families, and friends
• Psychiatry Journal Watch - The most important research appearing in the literature, biweekly postings from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine.
• Purple Wagon - Purdue University sponsored site for people interested in parents and chlldren and their explorations and discussions of war, terrorism, and peacemaking.
• Social Medicine Portal - includes information on historical sources, courses in social medicine, academic departments, physician activists, resources for health activism, public health & epidemiology, journals, listserves, and sources of statistical information
• Stepfamily Association of America - A national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to successful stepfamily living. Our site provides educational information and resources for anyone interested in stepfamilies and their issues.
• The Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Sarin - Reports from a series of congressionally-mandated studies by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
• The Right to Equal Treatment - prepared by Physicians for Human Rights, this is an annotated bibliography of studies on racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare, their causes, and related issues
• The Third Space: the site for emerging feminist scholars
• U.S. Census Bureau
• VIA: Video Intervention/Prevention/Assessment - Learning from Patients about the Illness Experience, in association with Children's Hospital Boston
• Welfare Information Network - Clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance related to welfare, workforce development, and other human and community services
• Welfare, Children, and Families - A research project in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio to evaluate the consequences of welfare reform for the well-being of children and families
• William T. Grant Foundation - Devoted to supporting research and porjects that use evidence-based approaches with children

• Ackerman Institute for the Family
• Association of Psychology, Postdoctoral, and Internship Centers - Provides services to members interested in training predoctoral and postdoctoral psychologists as well as the National Match Program
• Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts - The Center aims to become a locally, nationally, and internationally recognized center of excellence in the training, promotion, and conduct of novel interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the area of human development (social, psychological, health) and families in diverse (ethnic/racial, cultural, socioeconomic) populations.
• Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse, - at the University of Miami School of Medicine
• Center of Relationship Enhancement - Devoted to enhancing interpersonal communication, relationships, and family life
• Chicago Center for Family Health - Dedicated to strengthening families in crisis, CCFH offers advanced training for mental health and health professionals; counseling services; and community programs.
• Dulwich Centre - An independent centre in Adelaide, Australia involved in counselling, community work, training and publishing.
• European Forum Training and Research in Family Mediation - A voluntary not-for-profit professional organisation which draws together national, regional and local organisations in Europe
• Family Institute at Northwestern University - Providing maritala nd family therapy, professional education and research
• Family Therapy Institute of Cambridge
• Family Therapy Program, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Fielding Institute
• Gottman Institute - Provides treatment for couples and trains mental health professionals and other health care providers
• Houston Galveston Institute
• Institute for Creative Change
• Instituto Chileno de Terapia Familiar
• Instituto di Terapia Familiare di Firenze (Florence, Italy)
• International Trauma Studies Program-New York University - A multi-disciplinary approach to the study, treatment, and prevention of trauma-related suffering. A collaboration among the Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine,the Ehrenkrantz School of Social Work, the Division of Nursing and Department of Applied Psychology, School of Education, and the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Mental Research Institute - A research and training institute for the international study of individuals, families and their communities.
• Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. - Dedicated to promoting and advancing the contributions made to the health sciences by the late Milton H. Erickson, M.D. through training mental health professionals and health professions world wide
• Minuchin Center for the Family - Treatment for families and training and consultation on structural family therapy and techniques
• Multicultural Family Institute - A non-profit educational institution dedicated to training, research and quality therapy, as well as consultation and support for those in human service, business and educational institutions who are concerned with families. The Institute is committed to empowering those who had been made to feel invisible because of race, gender, culture, class, sexual orientation or disability.
• Multisystemic Therapy Institute - Information on the Multisystemic Therapy model, research and programs.
• New York University - Advanced Specialization in Couple and Family Therapy
• NOVA Southeastern University Department of Family Therapy - Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences - Teaching marriage and family therapists to help clients create useful change by building on client strengths and resources. Clinical training includes individual and group supervision based on direct observation, videotape, or audiotape.
• Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center - Providing training and research about family therapy
• Project Resilience - A private organization based in Washington, DC that provides training and disseminates information for professionals working in education, treatment, and prevention. It promotes a strengths-based approach to overcoming hardship, for instance family disruption, poverty, violence, substance abuse, and racism. It uses a balanced psychological model that includes pathology and mental health, a developmental vocabulary of strengths, and culturally diverse materials.
• PSY Broadcasting - online continuing education for mental health professionals
• UCLA Center for Culture & Health - This interdisciplinary research center is composed of anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and other biobehavioral social scientists whose research focuses on the impact of social and cultural factors on mental health and mental retardation/developmental disabilities. Their research involves the study of individuals with these conditions, as well as their families. It also examines individuals and families who are at risk for developing maladaptive behaviors that could negatively influence the quality of their lives and that of their families.
• University of Massachusetts Family Therapy Program - The program aspires to serve urban communities and to provide an opportunity for students to understand the significance of facilitating dialogue for marginalized individuals, families, and communities.Curriculum includes modern and postmodern systems approaches that are collaborative, inclusive, and integrative.
• University of Miami Center for Family Studies - Training program in family therapy research with Hispanic populations in the U.S.
• University of Rochester Family Therapy Training Center - Marital and family therapy training programs and the Medical Family Institute

• American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - Published by the American Orthopsychiatric Association
• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy - The ANZJFT: Innovative and Contextual Approaches to Human Problems has systemic family therapists as its core constituency, but recognizes that family therapists are to be found in a wide range of workplaces, and may work in other modalities. The Journal aims to foster discussion in the field, in its pages and on its website and prefers to publish papers that are thoughtful but clearly written, lively and based in personal/clinical experience, unpretentious, and sometimes, provocative.
• Blackwell-Synergy - Synergy is the online service of Blackwell Publishing, which publishes Family Process and over 700 other journals. Family Process subscribers' online access to articles is provided through this site.
• Development and Psychopathology - Multidisciplinary journal devoted to the interrelationship of normal and pathological development in adults and children that strives to understand patterns of adaptation and maladaptation throughout the lifespan.
• Families, Systems, and Health - First published as Family Systems Medicine,the journal publishes articles that describe and evaluate an integrated, systemic view of health, illness, and the healthcare system with particular interest in new models of collaboration between families, health professionals, and mental health teams in different community and healthcare settings.
• Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies - Published on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations
• International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
• Journal of Brief, Strategic and Systemic Therapies
• Journal of Family Psychology - Published by Division 43 of the American Psychological Association
• Journal of Family Therapy - Published on behalf of the United Kingdom's Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice
• Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - Published by the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy
• Journal of Marriage and the Family - Published on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations
• Psychotherapy Networker: The Magazine for Today's Helping Professional
• Sistemas Familiares - - una revista cientifica editada por ASIBA (Asociacion Sistemica de Buenos Aires). Su principal objetivo es difundir el pensamiento sistemico en la comunidad de profesionales de la Salud Mental de habla hispana
• The Future of Children - Published by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation with the goal of translating research into effective policies for children

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
• American Association of Brief and Strategic Therapists
• American Counseling Association
• American Family Therapy Academy
• American Orthopsychiatric Association: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mental Health - is a multidisciplinary professional association on the cutting edge of family, marital and individual therapy. Membership includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family therapists, marital counselors, counselors, and educators-who work with children, adolescents, adults and families.
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association
• American Psychological Association
• APA Division 37 - Child, Youth, and Family
• APA Division 43 (Family Psychology)
• APA Division 44- Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues
• APA Division 45- Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
• APA Division 53-Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
• APA Division 54-Society of Pediatric Psychology
• Associaçáo Brasileira de Terapia Familiar (ABRATEF)
• Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the United Kingdom
• Association Suisse de Therapie Familiale et Interventions Systemiques
• Christian Association for Psychological Studies
• Collaborative Family Healthcare Association - A diverse group of physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, family therapists and other health care workers, working in both primary and tertiary care settings, who study, implement, and advocate for the collaborative family health care paradigm. It also includes researchers, educators, health care policy workers, and consumer group representatives.
• Council on Contemporary Families - Founded in 1996, with a membership consisting of national noted family researchers, mental health and social work practitioners, and clinicians, The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the national conversation about what contemporary families need and how these needs can best be met.
• European Family Therapy Association
• Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry - The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) is an organization of nationally respected psychiatrists dedicated to shaping psychiatric thinking, public programs and clinical practice in mental health.
• International Family Therapy Association
• La Asociacion Mexicana de Terapia Familiar
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Council on Family Relations
• Public Conversations Project - "Constructive Conversations that Reach Across Differences" PCP promotes constructive conversations and relationships among people who have differing values, world views, and perspectives about divisive public issues.
• Sociedad Argentina de Terapia Familiar
• Society for Research in Child Development - Promotes multi-disciplinary research in human development provides an exchange of information among scientists and other professionals
• Society for Research on Adolescence - Multidisciplinary, international organization dedicated to understanding adolescence through research and dessimination
• Society for Teachers of Family Medicine - STFM is dedicated to excellence in family medicine education and research through the professional enhancement of a multidisciplinary faculty developing socially conscious physicians who will provide leadership and advocacy to improve the health of all people.
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) - The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.