Immediate opportunities for independently licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage Family Therapists, Clinical Professional Counselors or Psychologists to provide information, coaching, training, and education to adults dolescents, children, military families and service members.

The Counselor provides on-site, mobile, and telephonic non-clinical problem solving counseling to families when other resources are not available and makes appropriate referrals and warm transfers to military and community resources according to the needs of families and service members.

From time to time, VAMFT receives information related to potential job opportunities. They are posted here. If you have information regarding MFT-related job opportunities, please email them to jobs@vamft.org.

JobConnection - AAMFT's employment connection resource

Health Net, Inc. - Full-time Positions available in Arlington/Crystal City or Norfolk

Inova Kellar Center is co-sponsoring this conference.

These workshops provide participants with an opportunity to both complete an ethics training program and learn more about the application of Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy with Children and Adolescents. The ethics training will provide practical advice concerning how to follow your ethical obligations to clients while conforming to all legal requirements that cover the practice of psychotherapy. The Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach helps therapists work effectively with children and adolescents who present with oppositional, explosive, self-harming, eating-distressed, school-disruptive and heavy substance-abuse behaviors. Such clients can be a nightmare for even the most seasoned therapists. This “hands-on” practiceoriented workshop will help participants learn how this approach can capitalize on the strengths of clients and family members. A special emphasis in this workshop will be placed on the therapist’s creative use of self and inventiveness.

Reduced fee couples therapy from licensed therapists

We are conducting a clinical trial for couples who are experiencing problems in their relationship and are committed to trying to improve their relationship in couples therapy. Couples will receive discounted therapy from licensed professionals in exchange for answering questions about their experiences.

Couples will attend therapy sessions at locations convenient to them in therapist offices in Northern Virginia, DC, or Maryland.

Please consider referring couples to the study. For more information, see the Virginia Tech Center for Family Services website (http://www.nvc.vt.edu/cfs).

Virginia has several graduate programs that conduct and publish research directly applicable to clinical practice and other issues relevant to our work as Marriage and Family Therapists. This page is for sharing information about clinical studies and to reference helpful literature. Please submit your requests to president@vamft.org.

Virginia Tech: Strengthening Bonds Clinical Trial

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For decades, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has sparked debate. Is it a biological illness, the dangerous legacy of genes or environmental toxins, or a mere alibi for bratty kids, incompetent parents and a fraying social fabric?

With 4.5 million U.S. children having received a diagnosis of the disorder -- and more than half of them taking prescription drugs to control it -- the question has divided doctors and patients, parents and teachers, and mothers and fathers.

Scientists maintain that they've been narrowing in on the origins and mechanics of disabling distraction, while gathering increasing evidence that ADHD is as real as such less controversial disorders as Down syndrome and schizophrenia. Their most recent progress is described in a Sept. 9 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, based on a new study that indicates a striking difference in the brain's motivational machinery in people with ADHD symptoms.