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EFTA Newsletter N 5

The Society of Family Counsellors and Therapists, a non-commercial organization, was registered in 1998 in Moscow (Russia).

The Society brings together reputable family specialists that are recognized by the professional community. It provides professional support to colleagues and organizes concilia to discuss difficult cases.

The Society assists in the professional development of its members and helps to build a positive image of the profession in society. The Society furnishes the means for the development, evaluation and diffusion of theoretical and applied professional information.

The Society promotes the development of a system of psychological support to families and the creation of preconditions for childhood without violence, old age without loneliness, and a better quality of life for the working-age population.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Society of Family Counsellors and Therapists expresses its profound gratitude to Chana Wainer, the President of the International Family Therapy Association in 2002-2003 and the first psychologist who taught systemic family therapy in Russia (many of the Society's members were her students); Boris Masterov for conducting fund-raising seminars for the Society; Florence Kaslow, Kittie La Perrier and Gianfranco Cecchin, who held free training seminars in Moscow; Arild Aambo, Catherine Baker and Peter Titelman, who taught courses for the Society's members.

The Society would like to thank its many colleagues - psychologists, psychiatrists, educators and social workers - for their free presentations, lectures and reports, which furthered the development of family theory and served to build a good image of our profession.