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| American Holistic Nurses' Association
PO Box 2130
Flagstaff, AZ 86003-2130
800/278-2462
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| American Holistic Nurses' Association [AHNA] was founded in 1981 with the philosophy that:
- Nursing is an art/science with the primary purpose to nurture others towards the wholeness inherent within them
- Nurses have a unique opportunity to provide services that facilitate wholeness
- Holistic Nurses demonstrate expertise in a variety of roles and activities
- Holistic nursing assists people to assume personal responsibility for self-care
- Clients, families, and communities have the right to health care that honors the body, mind, and spirit
- Disease and distress are viewed as an opportunity for increased awareness of the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit
- Holistic modalities and therapies provide support and options in healing
- ANHA serves as a foundation and dynamic force for nursing practice, committed to unity and healing self, the nursing profession, and the planet
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| American Horticultural Therapy Association
909 York Street
Denver, CO 80206
303/370-8087
303/331-5776 fax
ahta@ahta.org
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| In 1879, the first known greenhouse for use with individuals with mental illnesses was built by Pennsylvania's Friends Asylum for the Insane (today known as Friends Hospital).
The American Horticultural Therapy Association [AHTA] is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and advance the profession of Horticultural Therapy as a therapeutic intervention and rehabilitative medium
AHTA:
- Disseminates information relating to the principals and practices of horticultural therapy
- Promotes research in horticultural therapy
- Establishes professional standards and accreditation in horticultural therapy
- Provides professional registration based on academic achievements, work and volunteer experience
- Offers members to individuals, students and institutions both nationally and internationally
- Manages the annual Douglas J Schwartz Greenhouse Grants Program
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| American Hospital Association
155 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
312/422-3000
202/ 626-2255 fax
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| Founded in 1898, the American Hospital Association [AHA] is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA.
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American Hospital Association
Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services
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| Merry Beth Kraus
American Hospital Association
One North Franklin, Suite 32
Chicago, IL 60606
312/422-3338
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| American Humane
63 Inverness Drive East
Englewood, CO 80112
303/792-9900
303/792-5333 fax
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| The American Humane Association was formed in 1877. The mission of the American Humane Association, as a network of individuals and organizations, is to prevent cruelty, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children and animals and to assure that their interests and well-being are fully, effectively, and humanely guaranteed by an aware and caring society.
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| American Hyperlexia Association
479 Spring Road
Elmburst, IL 60126
630/415-2212
630/ 530-5909 fax
president@hyperlexia.org
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| The American Hyperlexia Association is a non-profit organization comprised of parents and relatives of children with hyperlexia, speech and language professionals, education professionals, and other concerned individuals with the common goal of identifying hyperlexia, promoting and facilitating effective teaching techniques both at home and at school, and educating the general public as to the existence of the syndrome called hyperlexia.
AHA is dedicated to the advancement of the education and general welfare of children with hyperlexia. We advocate and encourage research related to hyperlexia and seek to assist families of children with hyperlexia in accessing appropriate services.
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| American Hypnosis Training Academy
c/o Ron Klein, MCS, NBCCH
111 Fidler Lane
Suite 1218
Silver Spring, MD 20910
800/343-9915
301/565-0103
301/588-9535 fax
aims@erols.com
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| The American Hypnosis Training Academy [AHTA], founded in 1981, provides continuing professional education in Ericksonian hypnosis, brief outcome oriented psychotherapy, and neurolinguistic programming [NLP].
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| American Institute for Cognitive Therapy
136 East 57th Street
Suite 1101
New York, NY 10022
212/308-2440
AICT@AOL.com
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| Founded in 1985 as the Center for Cognitive Therapy, the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy [AICT] provides treatment and training.
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American Institute of Life-Threatening Illness and Loss
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| American Institute of Life-Threatening Illness and Loss
914/779-4877
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American Institute of Medical Education [AIMED]
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| American Institute of Medical Education
2625 West Alameda Avenue, Suite 504
Burbank, CA 91505
800/348-8441
818/789-9857
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| A non-profit educational organization
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| American Institute of Stress
124 Park Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10703
800/247-3529
914/963-1200
914/965-6267 fax
914/965-7398 fax
stress124@earthlink.net
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| The American Institute of Stress is a non profit organization established in 1978 at the request of Hans Selye to serve as a clearinghouse for information on all stress related subjects.
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| The American International Health Alliance [AIHA] establishes and manages partnerships between health care institutions in the United States and their counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. AIHA also sponsors a number of regionwide program initiatives.
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American Journal of Psychotherapy
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| AJP
Belfer Education Center
Room 402
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461
888/257-7924
718/430-3503
718/430-8907 fax
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| The American Journal of Psychotherapy is published by the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, New York. It sponsors conferences in association with other organizations.
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| American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc
Mill Pond Offices
293 Route 100
Somers, NY 10589
914-277-6970
914/277-6974 fax
Inquire@aldf.com
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| Founded in 1990, the American Lyme Disease Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and control of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.
The Foundation supports critical scientific research and plays a key role in providing reliable and scientifically accurate information to the public, medical community and government agencies about tick-borne diseases and their potentially serious effects on our health and quality of life.
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| AMBHA
700 Thirteenth Street, NW
Suite 950
Washington, DC 20005
202/434-4564 fax
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| The American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association [AMBHA] was founded in 1994 to enable the leading companies in this new industry to work together on key issues of quality, public policy and communication. AMBHA membership currently includes 9 national and regional organizations, managing the cost and quality of mental health and substance abuse services for 100 million subscribers.
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American Managed Care and Review Association
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| American Managed Care and Review Association
1200 19-th Street, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
202/728-0506
202/728-0609 fax
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American Managed Health Care Association
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| American Managed Health Care Association
700 13-th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
202/739-5640
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| American Medical Association
515 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312/464-5000
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| With its over 240,000 members the American Medical Association [AMA], founded in 1847, is the largest non-profit professional organization of physicians and medical students in the U.S.
The official publication of the AMA is JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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| American Medical Development
67 Middle Street
Lowell, MA 01852
800/742-1674
978/937-9021
978/937-5249 fax
978/454-8409 video
info@americanmeddev.com
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| American Medical Development [AMD] supplies medical devices and video and data peripherals to telemedicine programs and integrators.
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| American Medical Directors Association
10480 Little Patuxent Parkway
Suite 760
Columbia, MD 21044
800/876-2632
410/740-9743
410/740-4572 fax
info@amda.com
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| The American Medical Directors Association [AMDA] is the professional association of medical directors and physicians practicing in the long term care continuum dedicated to excellence in patient care by providing education, advocacy, information, and professional development.
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American Medical Electroencephalographic Association [AMEEGA]
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| (This organization has merged into the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society [ECNS])
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| American Medical Seminars
PO Box 49947
Sarasota, FL 34230-6947
866/267-4263
941/388-1766
941/365-7073 fax
mail@ams4cme.com
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| American Medical Seminars [AMS] presents continuing medical education meetings aimed at primary care physicians.
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| American Medical Student Association
1902 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191
703/620-6600
703/ 620-5873 fax
amsa@www.amsa.org
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| The American Medical Student Association [AMSA] was founded in 1950 under the auspices of the American Medical Association [AMA] to provide medical students a chance to participate in organized medicine. It became independentt in 1968 and now focuses its energies on the problems of the medically underserved, inequities in our health-care system and related issues in medical education. Its membership consists of over 30,000 medical students, pre-medical students, interns and residents.
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| American Medical Women's Association
801 North Fairfax Street
Suite 400
Alexandria, VA 22314
703/838-0500
703/439-3864 fax
info@amwa.doc.org
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| The American Medical Women's Association is a national organization of women physicians and medical students. It is dedicated to promoting women's health, improving the professional development and personal well-being of our members and increasing the influence of women in all aspects of the medical profession.
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| American Medical Writers Association
40 West Gude Drive
Suite 101
Rockville MD 20850-1192
301/294-5303
301/294-9006 fax
info@amwa.org
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| The American Medical Writers Association [AMWA] was founded in 1940 to help medical authors. There are 20 regional Chapters in the United States and Canada and one in Europe.
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| American Mental Health Alliance - USA
PO Box 4075
Portland, OR 97208-4075
888/577-3386 fax
amhainfo@nwlink.com
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| The American Mental Health Alliance - USA [AMHA-USA] is a professional non-profit member-owned interdisciplinary organization that promotes an indemnity fee-for-service reimbursement model opposed to managed care and provides resources for members to market their services over the World Wide Web.
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| American Mental Health Counselors Association
801 North Fairfax Street
Suite 304
Alexandria, VA 22314
800/326-2642
703/548-6002
703/548-4775 fax
mhamilton@amhca.org
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| Founded in 1976, the American Mental Health Counselors Association [AMHCA] claims to be the only organization that exclusively represents Mental Health Counselors on the full range of professional issues. Its mission is "to enhance the profession of mental health counseling through licensing, advocacy, education and professional development." Unlike the American Counseling Association [ACA], the AMHCA is geared more to licensed private practice counselors.
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| American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence
217 Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10007
212/566-5555
212/349-2944 fax
info@aatod.org
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| The American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence [AATOD], formerly the American Methadone Treatment Association, was founded in 1984 as the Northeast Regional Methadone Treatment Coalition.
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| American Music Therapy Association, Inc
8455 Colesville Road
Suite 1000
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301/589-3300
301/589-5175 fax
info@musictherapy.org
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| The American Music Therapy Association [AMTA] was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organization. Its purpose is the progressive development of the therapeutic use of music in rehabilitation, special education, and community settings.
Predecessors to the American Music Therapy Association included the National Association for Music Therapy founded in 1950 and the American Association for Music Therapy founded in 1971.
AMTA is committed to the advancement of education, training, professional standards, credentials, and research in support of the music therapy profession.
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