CINAHL (1982-present) Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature: indexes books, journals and dissertations in nursing, physical therapy, medical technology and allied health areas.
ERIC (1966-present) Educational Resources Information Center: contains citations to education-related research and technical reports, and to journal articles.
MEDLINE (1966-present) Includes Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, & Index to Dental Literature. Covers over 3500 journals in medicine, clinical science and allied health. Includes Health Sciences Libraries journal holdings information and links to full-text articles available through Journals@OVID.
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) (1967-present) Covers books, dissertations and journals in the psychological and behavioral sciences, including the creative arts therapies. Uses the OVID interface and the Thesaurus of Psychological Indexing Terms.
Check catalog for print journals; for a comprehensive list, search "family therapy-periodicals," "marital therapy-periodicals," "family-periodicals" and "marriage-periodicals" as a Subjects.)
The web site of this organization, which represents 23,000 marriage and family therapists in the United States, Canada and abroad, provides a wealth of information relevant to the clinical practice of marriage and family therapy; includes listings of MFT graduate schools and state licensure boards.
Devoted to providing professional education and certification of sex educators, counselors and therapists, the AASECT site presents information for those in this field.
This is the web site of the ABA's Section on Family Law, organized in 1958, with the goal of improving the administration of justice in the area of family law.
AFTA membership consists of nearly 900 family therapy teachers, researchers and practitioners whose aim is the continued development of the field of family therapy; the Academy is a forum for the discussion of issues in the practice and teaching of family therapy, as well as research and theory.
This Association was "formed to provide credentialing, standards of practice, professional identity, and self-regulation for the psychotherapy profession."
An Association with a multidisciplinary membership involved in family therapy, AFT deals with credentialing and standards for practice and training in the U.K. site contains a discussion of "what is family therapy?" and tables of contents/abstracts of its publication, Journal of Family Therapy and Context.
Founded in 1993, this is a heterogeneous group of individuals, including family therapists, who study, implement and advocate for the "collaborative family health care paradigm."
This Association, a division of the American Counseling Association, promotes excellence in the field of family counseling by disseminating publications and providing a forum for issues relevant to families.
SAA is a non-profit association dedicated to promoting successful stepfamily living; its site provides educational information and resources for those interested in stepfamilies and stepfamily issues.
This not-for-profit agency, dedicated to family therapy and the study of families, presents information about the training, treatment and research going on at the Institute.
This is the home page of the ACF, a federal agency that funds family assistance programs; included is information abut programs, contracts, grants, conferences, etc.
This governmental agency, created in 1980, aims to promote the "identification and understanding of factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia."
Founded in 1996, this nonprofit group's membership consists of "noted national noted family researchers, mental health and social work practitioners, and clinicians"; its goal is to enhance "the national conversation about what contemporary families need and how these needs can best be met."
A Watertown, Massachusetts provider of post-graduate training (with CEUs) for professionals working with families, its site contains notices of its courses, workshops, etc.
This site consists of reports, speeches and resources from the annual Family Reunion conferences, which are moderated by former Vice-President and Mrs. Gore; each conference is devoted to a different topic of importance to families.
This web site provides featues the Family Scholar Directory; Family Index Database; Family Program Directory; Academic Journal Directory; and other relevant information.
The Institute's mission is "to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction"; its web site contains information and links to information about sex therapy and sexuality.
This site is intended to assisted MFTs seeking resources for marriage and family therapy; includes not only web resources, articles, radio broadcasts, journals, reading lists and general information.
NCFR "provides a forum for family researchers, educators, and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards..."
This is the web site of an independent U.K.-based research organization that deals with marital and family relationships; contains a section of "faqs" about marriage, divorce and relationships and a compilation of statistics relative to the U.K.
