Alliance for Psychosocial Nursing (APN)

resource and lobbying force for nurses and their patients containing memberships, meetings, a job bank, online journal, and discussion areas for important issues and questions.

American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress

multidisciplinary network of professionals who are committed to the advancement of intervention for survivors of trauma.

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

comprised of marriage and family therapists from the U.S., Canada and abroad.

American Association of LifeStyle Counselors (AALC)

working in the fields of weight control and stress management.

American College of Mental Health Administration (ACMHA)

organization for mental health and substance abuse administrators and for consumer and family leaders.

American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA)

for discussion of issues in the clinical practice, and teaching of family therapy, and in research and theory building on therapuetic and family systems and their contexts.

American Mental Health Alliance

A member owned, non-profit professional marketing organization preserving client privacy and professional integrity.

American Psychotherapy Association

provides credentialing, standards of practice, professional identity, and self-regulation for the psychotherapy profession.

Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents

professional organization studying the dynamic interaction of the psychological, biological, social, and cognitive systems within the infant and the infant/parent relationship.

British Association for Counselling (BAC)

professional body for U.K. counsellors and psychotherapists with benfits including accreditation, codes of ethics and practices, and the Register of Counsellors.

British Association of Psychotherapists

British Confederation of Psychotherapists

a linking body of psychoanalytic psychotherapy societies in the U.K. Maintains a voluntary register of appropriately qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

California Chapter of American Psychiatric Nurses Association

engaged in continuing education programs, legislative advocacy, and other professional activities of interest to psychiatric/mental health nurses.

ENTER

Seeks to provide the basis for collaborative research funding, with an emphasis on education, training, models, and standards.

International Society for the Study of Dissociation

brings together professionals dedicated to the search for answers to improve the quality of life for all patients with dissociative disorders.

International Stress Management Association (ISMA)

exists to promote sound knowledge and best practice in the prevention and reduction of human stress.

Kansas Alcohol & Drug Service Providers Association

composed of program directors of substance abuse prevention and treatment programs.

Kentucky Psychological Association

dedicated to the promotion of psychology as a science and a profession.

Masterson Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The

nonprofit organization teaching and researching the object relations approach to personality disorders. Also offers postgraduate training programs.

Mental Health Association of Orange County

includes information on types of mental illness and advocacy.