American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA)

The American Family Therapy Academy is an organization of approximately 600 leading national and international family therapy and allied-field academics, clinicians, researchers, program directors, and policymakers. They are the builders and consumers of models, theories, investigations, and trainings in systemic theory and practice.

Mission:
AFTA's mission is developing, researching, teaching, and disseminating progressive, just family therapy, and family centered practices and policies.

Vision:
AFTA envisions a just world created by transforming social contexts so that they promote health, safety, and well-being of all families and communities.

Objectives:
• To advance theories, therapies, research and professional education that regards 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.