Executive Director Search
AAMFT has launched its search for an Executive Director. The position profile can be accessed by following the read more link below. Should you know of potential candidates, please share this with them. If you are interested please email your cover letter and resume to our executive search firm.
Call for Abstracts
AAMFT is now accepting abstract proposals for the 2013 Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference theme will be "Raising Vibrant Children" and the deadline for submissions is 11:59pm EST, December 1, 2012.
Therapy Topics
These brochures contain easy-to-understand information and resources and discuss the role of marriage and family therapists in treating problems affecting the public. Written for clients and potential clients, Therapy Topics are designed to educate consumers and market therapist's services.
Marriage Preparation
The Beatles sang, "All you need is love." Your friends might tell you, "Good communication is all you really need." Your parents advise you, "The key is to marry someone with the same values." Everyone has advice these days for people considering marriage, whether it's a first marriage or remarriage. The problem is, none of this advice is totally correct, nor is it totally incorrect.
Suicidal Ideation
Nothing is as scary to parents, children, spouses, and loved ones as somebody they care about expressing suicidal thoughts, which is referred to as "suicidal ideation" by mental health professionals. We feel like we must jump into action and stop them from even thinking about such a terrible thing. We feel a gnawing in the pit of our stomach asking us the question, "Why?"
Adoption
Forty years ago, most people thought of adoptive parents as couples who could not become pregnant, and who adopted an infant to raise as "their own." Today, some adoptive families are formed in this way and for this reason, but there are many new ways in which adoption brings families together.