AMHA-USA - Goals
Who We Are:
AMHA-USA is a national community of psychotherapists organized to protect clients and to preserve the profession.
AMHA-USA is multidisciplinary - all mental health professionals licensed or certified for independent practice may join.
AMHA-USA is not for profit. AMHA state chapters organize as cooperative professional groups under the laws of each state.
Our Objectives
Create a professional community that provides therapy of the highest quality and ethical standards.
Support therapists in independent practice by assisting them in cooperative marketing and by providing expertise on relevant current issues.
Offer mental-health and substance-abuse services free from the constraints often imposed by for-profit "managed" programs.
Support education, supervision, and research opportunities for members.
Oppose legislation and regulations that invade patent privacy and confidentiality.
Form alliances with groups that advocate or litigate for ethical treatment and patient privacy.
Build a national network of psychotherapists communicating and cooperating in these objectives.
Create public and professional awareness about our vision of quality mental-health care.
The Mission of The American Mental Health Alliance-USA is to support and market competent, ethical mental health services that preserve privacy and confidentiality.
We offer hundreds of cross-linked consumer information web pages about mental health professionals, psychotherapy and mental health topics.
We train and support our members in presenting their professional practices on the Internet and in their communities.
Client choice, privacy, preservation of psychotherapy.
Article discusses internet utility - present and future for mental health needs.
A discussion of MC's invasive forms
Finding comfort in professional relationship.
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