by Saliha Bava | Jul 18, 2018 | AFTA Blog |
The post below is a reflection from Deliana Garcia who visited a Federal Court where people charged with illegal entry were processed. Ms. Garcia was one of our AFTA Conference 2018 Sunday Workshop presenters in Austin, TX. She is the Director of International...
by Kyle Killian | Jul 4, 2018 | AFTA Blog |
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This inscription on the Statue of Liberty has been a beacon to the world. Lately, it has become conditional, with an addendum like, “Offer may vary” or “Huddled masses from Norway...
by Laurie L Charles | Jul 16, 2015 | AFTA Blog, Mental Health |
*This post is an updated and modified version of an article by the same name, published in the July/August 2015 issue of Family Therapy Magazine. Used here with permission. Last night was the final meeting of our Shoufi-Mafi: Global Mental Health [1], a student driven...
by drchenfeng | Jun 21, 2015 | AFTA Blog, Couples, Couples Therapy, Training |
Authors: Jessica ChenFeng and Aimee Galick There were probably many times when we hijacked our therapy with couples. We are both marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and had been seeing clients for a few years before we joined the Socio-Emotional Relationship...
by cknudsonmartin | Mar 30, 2015 | AFTA Blog, Couples, Couples Therapy, Training |
Therapists know that sociocultural contexts such as gender, sexual orientation, culture, race, and class are important, but most practice models offer few guidelines for how to actually address these issues. The newly released AFTA Springer Brief Socio-Emotional...
by Laurie L Charles | Jan 19, 2015 | AFTA Blog, Community, Family Therapy, Health, Health Care System, Training, Wellness |
***Originally published at Mental Health Innovation Network*** Every Tuesday afternoon, my family therapy trainees and I meet to see clients at our university supported family therapy clinic. Yesterday, Simone,* a woman in her late 40s who was once a legal...
