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  • APA
    Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With more than 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.
  • AAMFT
    The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) is the professional association for the field of marriage and family therapy. We represent the professional interests of more than 23,000 marriage and family therapists throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.
  • Adolescence Directory on Line (ADOL)
    Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources for health topics.
  • Child, Adolescent, and Family Intervention Science Initiative (CAFISI)
  • Teacher Talk
    Teacher Talk is published by the Center for Adolescent Studies at the School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington,IN. It is a publication for preservice and secondary education teachers that exists as a series of World Wide Web documents. Anyone is welcome to use these resources as long as they indicate that the article or lesson plan is a part of Teacher Talk which belongs to Indiana University.
  • Teacher Talk Forum
    This collection of electronic lesson plans covers a variety of topic areas. It is organized by topic area.
  • Sites for Parents of Adolescents
    Being a parent is no easy task. Being a parent of a teen can create stresses in the family as the young person struggles for independence Parents of adolescents are often at a loss as to how to respond. These sites are meant to serve a sources of information.
  • Blueprints for Violence Prevention (Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence)
    The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence has developed Blueprints for ten exemplary violence prevention programs. The Blueprints provide step-by-step instructions that will help communities plan and implement youth crime and violence prevention strategies. A sampling of the ten programs include: Bullying Prevention Program and the Midwestern Prevention Project.
  • Functional Family Therapy
    Functional Family Therapy is so named to identify the primary focus of intervention (the family) and reflect an understanding that positive and negative behaviors both influence and are influenced by multiple relational systems (i.e., are functional). FFT is a multisystemic prevention program, meaning that it focuses on the multiple domains and systems within which adolescents and their families live.
  • Surgeon General Report on Youth Violence (2000)
    Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General examines the factors that lead young people to gravitate toward violence, reviews the factors that protect youth from perpetrating violence and identifies effective research-based preventive strategies.
  • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
    The OJJDP Web site is designed to provide information and resources on both general areas of interest about juvenile justice and delinquency including conferences, funding opportunities, and new publications and the comprehensive strategy as a framework for communities to combat youth crime.
  • National Institutes for Drug Abuse (NIDA)
    NIDA was established in 1974, and in October 1992 it became part of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. The Institute is organized into divisions and offices, each of which plays an important role in programs of drug abuse research.
  • The Family Project, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
    The Family Project is the national center for the study, training, and delivery of Functional Family Therapy. The partnership between UNLV and the Department of Family and Youth Services (DFYS) also serves as a national model for collaborative delivery that combines the family therapists from UNLV and DFYS into a single, integrated family counseling service.