Founded in 1977, the American Family Therapy Academy is a non-profit organization of leading family therapy teachers, clinicians, program directors. policy makers, researchers, and social scientists dedicated to advancing systemic thinking and practices for families in their social context.

Through diversity in its membership, continuous dialogue, collaborative interchange, and commitment to social justice, AFTA flourishes as a learning organization that offers value to its members and those whom they serve.

Objectives

• To advance theories, therapies, research and professional education that regard 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.