47.504 The Family System

Spring 2004

Family Systems Resource Links

Family Therapy

• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

• Massachusetts Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT)

• International Family Therapy Association (IFTA)

• Directory of Marriage and Family Therapy Training Programs

• Allyn & Bacon's Family Therapy Website

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention:  Functional Family Therapy

• Yale-New Haven Health Overview of Family Therapy

• National Institute on Drug Abuse:  Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Adolescent Drug Abuse (book online)

• Ellen, E.F. (1998). Family Therapy Approaches to Alcoholism.  Psychiatric Times, 15.

• Kanapaux, W. (2002).  The Patient as Parent:  Family Matters. Psychiatric Times, 19.

• Addictions Alternatives Guide to Family Systems Theory

• Bump, J. The Family Dynamics of Victorian Fiction

• Hinkle, J.S. (1992).  Family Counseling in the Schools.  ERIC Digest.

Family Diversity

• Family Diversity Project, Amherst, MA.  Home page and Smith College article

• UMBC Early Childhood guide to children's books on family diversity

• Schwartz, W.  Family  Diversity in Urban Schools.  ERIC Digest reprinted EdStar MN

• Family Diversity Activities by the Diversity Council

• CCR links to Articles on the Changing American Family

• Berry, B.M. (2001) All the Ties that Bind:  Race, Ethnicity, and why Families Support Adult Children. PCS Research Report: 01-437

• Goulbourne, H. & Solomos, J. (2003).  Families, ethnicity, and social capital.  Social Policy & Society, 2, 329-338.

• PBS The New Americans

• Fix, M., Zimmerman, W., & Passel, J.S.  (2001).  Integration of Immigrant Families in the United States.  Urban Institute.

Family Policy

• US Dept. of Education, Family Policy Compliance Office

• Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy

• University Missouri Center for Family Policy and Research

• National Council on Family Relations policy links

• Henneck, R. (2003). Family Policy in the US, Japan, Germany, Italy and France.  CCR briefing paper

• Smock, P.J. & Coontz, S. (2003) Marriage preparation programs offer no quick fix to welfare families dilemmas

• American Prospect Special Issue:  The Politics of Marriage.  Online versions of all articles and essays with additional policy and data links.

• Family Support America policy page

• Family & Child Policy Center, Heller School, Brandeis University.  Welfare, Children, and Families: A three city study

• National Gay and Lesbian Task  Force:  Family Policy Institute

• UMass Center for Adoption Research:  Policy