Professional Organizations and Other Related Sites

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Helpful web page:  Glossary of Initials: Professional Degrees, Organizations and Other Jargon

1. Art Therapy Associations

   • American Art Therapy Association

   • Connecticut Art Therapy Association

   • Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association

   • England - Art Therapy Web Page

   • Illinois Art Therapy Association

   • New Jersey Art Therapy Association

   • Northern California Art Therapy Association

   • Ohio Buckeye Art Therapy Association

   • Potomac Art Therapy Association

   • South Texas Art Therapy Assn. Home Page

   • Westchester Art Therapy Association

2. Certifying Organizations/Agencies

   • American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work (ABE)
   • National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc.

3. Counseling Associations

   • Academy of Counseling Psychology

   • American Couns Association

   • American Medical Association

   • American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

   • American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy

   • American Association For Psychology And The Performing Arts

   • American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists

   • American Association of Suicidology

   • American Mental Health Counselors Association

   • American Psychiatric Association

   • American Psychiatric Nurses Association

   • American Psychological Association

   • Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP)

   • National Association of Social Workers

4. Creative Arts Therapies

   • Arts in Therapy Network

   • International Expressive Arts Therapy Association

   • Israeli Association of Creative and Expressive Therapies (YAHAT)

   • National Coalition of Arts Therapies

5. Dance Therapy Associations

   • American Dance Therapy Association

   • Association for Dance/Movement Therapy UK (England)

6. Drama Therapy Associations

   • National Association For Drama Therapy

7. Holistic Associations

   • American Yoga Association

8. Jewish Governing Boards

   • Rabbinical Council of America
   • Orthodox Union (OU)

9. Music Therapy Associations

   • American Music Therapy Association

   • Canadian Association for Music Therapy (CAMT)

10. Post Traumatic Stress and Dissociative Disorders Associations

    • Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

    • Canadian Traumatic Stress Network's mission

    • David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages

    • European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

    • International Society for the Study of Dissociative Disorders

    • International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)

    • Israeli Institute for the Treatment and Study of Stress (Maytal)

    • Israeli Psychological Association

    • UK Society for the Study of Dissociation

11. Recreation, Play, Sandplay and Pet Therapy

    • American Therapeutic Recreation Association

    • Canadian Play Therapy

    • The Israeli Sandplay Therapists Association

    • Play Therapy Australia

    • Pet Therapy - Delta Society Home Page

    • Sandplay Therapists of America

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