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Professional Associations

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy has a student membership and sponsors a conference each October.

American Counseling Association provides student memberships to both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at least half-time. ACA sponsors a national convention each year during March or April.

American Psychological Association (APA) offers a student affiliates category instead of student membership. APA holds a national convention each year in August. APA has a number of research articles and books listed on its website. It also lists the many journals that it sponsors.

American School Counselors Association (ASCA) is the major professional organization for school counseling. It has a student membership category.

Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) helps addiction-focused professionals in the areas of education, advocacy, standards of practice, ethics, and research.

International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors offers online discussions so that members can network with each other.

National Association of Social Workers offers a student membership category. NASW publishes pamphlets that give information on current topics.

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Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy

American Psychoanalytic Association website contains press releases from the association and information about its organizational structure; books written by psychoanalysts; and an online bibliography of journal articles, books, and book reviews. It also offers abstracts from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and full-text articles from the American Psychoanalyst, a quarterly newsletter. You might find very useful an online compilation of 30,000 psychoanalytic references. You can search by keyword, author, or select a bibliography.

Carl G. Jung features a compendium of abstracts, including dissertations on Jungian theory, films, a glossary, Jungian training institutes, seminars, and organizations. This site also gives links to the best Jungian sites, and some out-of-print books are reprinted in their entirety.

Freud Museum, Vienna permits you to listen to the only recording of Freud’s voice and view film clips, interact with a major showing of Freud’s favorite places in Vienna, and study the chronology of his life. Freud developed the vast majority of his theory at his home, 19 Berggasse in Vienna, and the museum for him is currently housed there.

New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society provides resources in psychoanalysis. The society produces the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis and Neuro-Psychoanalysis.

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Adler School of Professional Psychology is an independent graduate school that has campuses in Chicago and Vancouver, Canada. The Adler School is dedicated to continuing Alfred Adler’s work by making social responsibility its primary focus. It currently has a gun prevention project in Chicago.

North American Society of Adlerian Psychology provides a list of Adlerian training opportunities, and there is a place where you can click to view a video of Adler. It also has some summary information on Adlerian theory.

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Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT): an interdisciplinary organization committed to the advancement of a scientific approach to the understanding and amelioration of problems of the human condition. These aims are achieved through the investigation and application of behavioral, cognitive, and other evidence-based principles to assessment, prevention, and treatment. The ABCT has more than 40 special interest groups for its members, among which include groups dedicated to issues involving African American, Asian American, Hispanic, and other ethnic groups; children and adolescents; couples; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues; students; military issues; the criminal justice system; and so on.

The National Association of Cognitive Behavior Therapists: the leading organization dedicated exclusively to supporting, promoting, teaching, and developing cognitive-behavioral therapy and those who practice it.

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The Albert Ellis Institute: Albert Ellis Institute program training for clinicians so that they qualify for the Primary Training Certificate in REBT. Training is offered throughout the United States.

Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy: provides training for individuals interested in learning cognitive approaches to therapy. Aaron Beck and his daughter, Judith Beck, run the Beck Institute. Aaron Beck still demonstrates his working with clients for small groups.

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Center for Reality Therapy: Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding directs the Center for Reality Therapy and is one of Dr. Glasser’s closest colleagues.

The William Glasser Institute: offers seminars that lead to certification for practitioners of reality therapy. Approximately 7,000 therapists have completed training in reality/choice therapy at the Glasser Institute. The training consists of 18 months of training that concludes with a basic practicum, an advanced intensive week, an advanced practicum, and a final certification week during which trainees are required to demonstrate their skills.

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Society for Existential Analysis: This British website provides a forum for the expression of views and the exchange of ideas among those interested in the analysis of existence from a philosophical perspective.

International Society for Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy: This website contains podcasts and online videos on existential psychology and psychotherapy.

Saybrook University: Dedicated to supporting innovative scholarship consistent with Rollo May’s enduring contributions to the understanding of our own life and nature.

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United States

Association for Humanistic Psychology

Association for the Development of the Person-Centered Approach, Inc.

Biography of Carl Rogers:This site provides a biography of Carl Rogers by Howard Kirschenbaum.

Carl Rogers See Carl Rogers’s video on YouTube counseling Gloria—a famous counseling session that featured Fritz Perls, Albert Ellis, and Carl Rogers.

Carl Rogers Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Archives of Humanistic Psychology include writings, videotapes, and audiotapes of Carl Rogers, Virginia Satir, Rollo May, and many other authors.

The Center for Studies of the Person Located in La Jolla, California, it offers experiential learning and workshops related to the person-centered approach.

The Focusing Institute The institute trains participants how to gain direct access to a bodily knowing. Training is based on a long series of research studies conducted at the University of Chicago and now internationally.

Kids’ Workshops These workshops offer training to encourage children, in a person-centered manner, to grow into adults who live more profoundly.

The New York Person-Centered Resource Center This is an informational website established to create awareness of person-centered activities and to help promote the person-centered approach in New York City.

Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute—Natalie Rogers This is the website for Carl Rogers’s daughter, Natalie.

Person-Centered International Holds an annual person-centered workshop in Warm Springs, Georgia, usually in the winter (Contact: Jerold Bozarth at jbozarth1@charter.net)

The Strengths Academy This site offers a number of materials on Rogers and maintains that the strength movement is an outgrowth of Carl Rogers.

International

CCI Co-Counselling International

International Archives of the Person-Centered Approach In Dutch, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German (director: Alberto S. Segrera).

Network of the European Associations for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling

World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling This organization is located in the United Kingdom. The website provides information about person-centered and experiential psychotherapy, their biennial conferences, and the PCEP journal.

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Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy: The Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT), an international community, is a dynamic, inclusive, multinational organization committed to the advancement of theory, philosophy, practice, and research in Gestalt therapy. Personal growth, mental health, education, organizational development, political/social change, and the fine and performing arts are all included within the broad scope of Gestalt therapy. AAGT has a broad global membership of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, teachers, academics, writers, artists, performers, organizational consultants, political and social analysts, activists, and students.

Center for Gestalt Development: Publishes the Gestalt Directory that contains information about Gestalt clinicians and training programs throughout the world.

Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training:The center provides training that reflects its Gestalt philosophy. The training program is for 3 years with client referrals for the second and third years. Students observe live demonstrations by faculty therapists.

Gestalt Institute of Cleveland: The center offers personal and professional development, clinical training, organizational training, and coach training and certification. The professional training program is for 18 months, and it is designed to promote the growth and transformation of people.

New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy: This institute is the original one established by Fritz and Laura Perls in 1952. It offers a number of educational programs for members.

Pacific Gestalt Institute: The Pacific Gestalt Institute offers postgraduate courses and advanced clinical training to licensed psychotherapists or graduate students currently enrolled in a program leading to licensure. It offers American Psychological Association (APA) continuing education credits for training.

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Motivational Interviewing and Transtheoretical Model This site is an archive of material that was formerly at motivationalinterview.org, which was hosted in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and served as the informal homepage of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

Transtheoretical Model: Detailed Overview

Transtheoretical Model: Detailed Overview and Breakthroughs Timeline

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Expressive Art Therapy Associations

American Art Therapy Association (AATA)

International Art Therapy Association

American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)

North American Drama Therapy Association (NADT)

National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT)

American Music Therapy Association (AMTA)

International Expressive Arts Therapy Association

Association for Play Therapy

Play Therapy International

Sandplay Therapists of America

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American Psychological Association (APA)

Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) a member association of the American Counseling Association (ACA), publishes a quarterly journal concerned with research, theory, and program applications pertinent to multicultural and ethnic minority interests in all areas of counseling and human development.

Introduction to the Genogram

Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, a division of the American Psychological Association (APA), is the major representative body for psychologists who conduct research on ethnic minority concerns or who apply psychological knowledge and techniques to ethnic minority issues. The division’s purpose is to advance psychology as a science and to promote public welfare through research, to apply research findings toward addressing ethnic minority issues, and to encourage professional relationships among psychologists with these interests. It also represents ethnic minority concerns within the governance of the APA.

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Mindfulness

Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

Center for Mindful Eating

Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Healing and the Mind Bill Moyer’s documentary of an MBSR program

Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles

Social Anxiety and Mindfulness

Zen Meditation Therapy Andrew Shugyo Bonnici, Ph.D., a Zen teacher and meditation psychologist, integrates the formal discipline of Zen meditation with the sincere embodiment of faith mind.

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Feminist Therapy

The American Psychological Association has a number of organizations specific to women, including:

Division 17, Counseling Psychology

Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women

Association for Women in Psychology offers the Psychology of Women Resource List (POWR), which contains an electronic network discussion of current topics, research, teaching strategies, and practice issues dealing with women in psychology.

Jean Baker Miller Training Institute provides workshops, courses, and professional training in various aspects of feminist therapy. It is located at the Stone Center at Wellesley College.

Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College contains more than 100 papers and books that explain or apply the relational-cultural model, the latest feminist therapy model.

LGBT

Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists

Be Yourself: Questions and Answers for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth is offered by PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).

Bisexuality 101 is a resource packet with a fact sheet, resource lists, and articles from PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).

Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit is a 79-page manual from Advocates for Youth that can be downloaded free. It includes excellent sections specifically on supporting youth of color and trans youth and 12 lesson plans for any youth program or grade 8 to12 classroom.

83,000 Youth: Selected Findings of Eight Population-Based Studies by Safe Schools Coalition is the first-ever compilation of quantitative research that explores the particular needs of gay, lesbian, and bisexual high school students and sheds light on the issue of anti-gay harassment in schools. The studies include six statewide surveys, two administered in urban school districts and one conducted in the schools of 55 American Indian tribes.

Experiences, Vulnerabilities and Risks of Lesbian and Gay Students was written by Caitlin Ryan and Donna Futterman (2001) in The Prevention Researcher.

For Better or For Worse: For five weeks in 1993, artist Lynn Johnston devoted her comic strip to telling the story of Lawrence coming out to his friends and parents. The strip was pulled from a number of newspapers.

Gender Variance: A Primer offers a thumbnail on the transgender community, explaining what it is and who it covers, from Gender Education and Advocacy.

GLBTQ Youth is a fact sheet available online and in print, from Advocates for Youth: Suite 200, 1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005; Phone: 202–347–5700.

Hot Seat Questions About Transgendered People gives short, snappy answers to all those irritating yet inevitable questions reporters like to ask transgendered people.

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Training in Solution-Focused Therapy

Association for the Quality Development of Solution Focused Consulting and Training: This is an international organization (with founding members from the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Sweden, and Japan) that is membership based. It offers a journal, summary of research projects, and market tools for building a solution-focused therapy practice.

Bill O’Hanlon’s Possibility Land: This website is sponsored by Bill O’Hanlon, author of Do One Thing Different. It offers assistance to individuals seeking to expand their possibilities—writing a book, speaking engagements, and so on. It also gives free handouts on solution-focused therapy, announcements of Bill’s speaking engagements, training, and a publication list.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association: This website contains information about training in solution-focused therapy, upcoming conferences, articles, research, links to therapists who offer this approach in their private practices, and important news related to this theoretical approach.

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USA

Center for Narrative Practice (New York): A family therapy and training facility run by Jodi Aman, LCSW-R, that aims to advance the practice of narrative approaches to therapeutic conversations within the community of Rochester, New York.

The Drama Therapy Institute: Narrative approaches with drama therapy

Family-Centered Services Project (Massachusetts): The Family-Centered Services Project (with founder and director William Madsen) is a training and consultation project that utilizes narrative ideas to help public agencies develop institutional practices and organizational cultures that support more respectful and responsive ways of serving youth and families.

Canada

The Narrative Project (Western Canada):  The Narrative Project is committed to providing narrative training, consultation and therapy in western Canada. Brief therapy services provided are oriented toward assisting people to achieve more preferred directions in their lives. Workshop and training information is available at the website.

Winnipeg Narrative Therapy offers narrative workshops and a Narrative Practice Group in Winnipeg, Canada.

Australia

Dulwich Centre This is a wonderful website. Dulwich Centre is an independent center in Adelaide, Australia, involved in narrative therapy, community work, training, publishing, supporting practitioners in different parts of the world, and cohosting international conferences. It acts as a gateway to information about narrative therapy and collective narrative practice. You will also find here articles to read, books and journals to purchase, and training events and conferences to attend. David Epston is on the faculty at Dulwich Centre, and training is being provided online.

Narrative Practices Adelaide This is an independent center for therapy, consultation, training, and supervision in South Australia. This website contains a wealth of information about narrative therapy.

Additional Narrative Resources

Masterswork Videos Offers online purchasing of narrative videos including tapes of therapists such as Michael White, David Epston, Jill Freedman, and Gene Combs.

Narrative Psychology This is an Internet and resource guide that includes biographical and theoretical information on theorists and key figures in narrative such as Michel Foucault, Gregory Bateson, and Kenneth Gergen.

Narrative Space This website provides a good introduction to narrative therapy, including a breakdown of terminology and concepts.

Reauthoring Teaching: Creating a Collaboratory The book, Re-authoring Teaching: Creating a Collaboratory (authored by Peggy Sax), and companion website show how teachers, lifelong students, and practitioners can take advantage of the online medium to consult with each other, bring multiple voices into teaching, and learn about life experiences from people who seek our services.

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Spirituality and psychotherapy integration

APA Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) This association states that it promotes the application of psychological research methods and interpretive frameworks for different forms of religion and spirituality. It encourages the integration of spirituality with psychotherapy approaches.

Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling This organization is a special interest division of the American Counseling Association.

American Association of Pastoral Counselors This is an organization of clergy members who are committed to promoting pastoral counseling.

Psychology of Religion This is a website that provides information and a number of links that explore a diversity of issues related to the psychology of religion.

Santa Clara University Spirituality and Health Institute A number of universities offer presentations on the integration of psychology and religion/spirituality. This university explores the relationship between spirituality and health from an interdisciplinary, multicultural perspective.

Spirituality and Health Special Interest Group, Society of Behavioral Medicine  International Association for the Psychology of Religion is based in Europe and has a forum for the exchange of scholarly information for individuals interested in the worldwide psychology of religion. This website presents multicultural and diverse points of view.

Spirituality and Practice  Brussat, F., & Brussat, M. A. (n.d.). Spirituality and practice: Resources for spiritual journeys.

The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion publishes the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. The organization is located at Alfred University in Alfred, NY.

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Jenifer Fox’s Strength Movement Website This website contains a wealth of information on strength development for children.

Strengths-Centered Counseling at Sage Publications This website offers video clips, teaching tips, learning strategies, and more.

The Gallup Organization The Gallup Organization maintains a website that is geared primarily toward businesses and corporate America. The organization states that it is interested in discovering what’s right with people and then building on it. The Gallup Organization provides consultant support managers to understand, engage, and build upon their employees’ greatest talents—and in the process, build individual, team, and organizational strengths.

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American Association for Marriage and the Family Therapy: This organization consist of approximately 30,000 marital and family therapists. AAMFT has a code of ethics.

Division 43 of the American Psychological Association: Family Psychology This is a division of the American Psychological Association, established to help psychologists who provide therapy to families. The division’s mission is to expand both the study and the practice of Family Psychology, through education, research, and clinical practice.

Training Centers

Therapy Training Boston  TTB is a learning community committed to enhancing the well-being of individuals, families, and groups by providing state of the art training. Spawned by the closure of the Family Institute of Cambridge, an organization that educated people in New England and afar for 35 years, we aspire to meet its training goals.

The Minuchin Center for the Family The Minuchin Center for the Family is a small, private training institution in New York City founded by Salvador Minuchin. The Minuchin Center trains family therapists on the philosophy of Structural Family Therapy training.

The Multicultural Family Institute The Multicultural Family Institute is a nonprofit educational institution committed to family therapy training, research, and consultation to community institutions from a Multicultural Systemic perspective. Founded by Monica McGoldrick, the Institute aims to provide training to therapists and counselors who work with individuals, couples, and families at any point in the life cycle. The Institute is committed to promoting social justice, countering the societal forces that undermine people because of race, gender, culture, class, sexual orientation, or disability.

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center An outgrowth of the Family Therapy Training Center founded by Salvador Minuchin in 1975, the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center offers Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy training and research in couple and family therapy and developmentally based approaches to child, adolescent, and adult behavioral health issues. Most of the Center’s senior faculty worked with Dr. Minuchin at the former Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic as the concepts of Structural Family Therapy were being defined and promulgated during the 1970s and have trained thousands of mental health and other human service professionals in the practice of family therapy, examining ecologically the home, school, and community environments for those elements of strength which can be mobilized to create positive, sustained change.

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The Society for Neuroscience is the world’s largest organization for understanding the brain and the nervous system.

The International Neuropsychological Society

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

International Neuropsychoanalysis Centre

Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (dabiinfo@dana.org)

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American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines: This website gives practice guidelines for a number of mental disorders. It is highly recommended that therapists review this website to see what evidence-based treatment has been established for working with clients who have specific, diagnosed disorders. This website should be useful in insurance reimbursement because it indicates the appropriate standard of care for specific mental disorders.

Inner Life: Selective Treatment: This website provides online assessment and treatment matching based on 30 years of research on systematic treatment. It generates an individualized, yet comprehensive report for treatment plans. Selective treatment provides you with a simple, yet comprehensive, snapshot of your mental health profile or that for a family member’s current mental health profile.

Multitheoretical Therapy: This website is the official homepage for Brooks-Harris’ (2008) Multitheoretical Therapy. I recommend this approach to psychotherapy integration because the model is an easy one to follow and offers great promise. Multitheoretical Psychotherapy (MTP) provides a way to understand the relationship between psychotherapy theories based on the way these approaches focus on different dimensions.

• MTP describes a catalog of key strategies that counselors can learn over time.
• MTP describes a method of integrative treatment planning based on collaborative dialogue with individual clients.
• MTP uses the following focal dimensions for theory integration: thoughts, actions, feelings, biology, interpersonal patterns, social systems, and cultural contexts.

Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration: This website contains the homepage of SEPI, the foremost integration organization. It gives information on professional membership, conferences, the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, and training opportunities.

Transtheoretical Model: This is the homepage of the transtheoretical model. It gives publications, measures, and research studies on the stages of change.