Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
MAS to MDZ

MAMFT works to promote and develop the profession in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. MAMFT represents over 528 qualified practitioners in Massachusetts dedicated to the promotion of the profession of marriage and family therapy and the advancement of the practices and principles which enhance individual and family well being.

• Understand human intelligence at all levels, including reasoning, perception, language, development, learning, and social levels
• Build useful artifacts based on intelligence

MaMHCA membership is open to professional mental health counselors, counselor educators and counseling students and interns who have an interest in the advancement of the mental health counseling profession.

MaMHCA is a state chapter of the American Mental Health Counselors Association.

These activities in time created a further demand for more intensive, in-depth training which resulted in the establishment of formal three-year part-time postgraduate certificate programs in New York (1986) and San Francisco (1987). Special certificate programs were also begun in Spokane, Washington and Copenhagen, Denmark (1987), and another is planned for Montreal, Canada in the fall of 1997. The current faculty of the east and west coasts has been enlarged to include alumni of the postgraduate training program after being supervised by Dr. Masterson for an extended period.

Objectives:

• Create a Scottish centre of excellence in the field of technologies for home care
• Create a network of permanent staff from identified and new academic, industrial, care and housing partners
• Elaborate existing techniques from the academic partners into a viable and integrated research base
• Develop specialised laboratories for key themes in home care
• Establish a shared demonstration centre as a focal point for the project, and as a means of integrating and showcasing the project solutions
• Provide a specialised training environment for young researchers
• Integrate existing products from the industrial partners into the research base
• Integrate current practices of the care-providing partners into the research base
• Prepare management and technical guides for use of home care technologies
• Establish care models for appropriate and ethical use of the technologies

Areas of focus include:

• Home care networks and services
• Lfestyle monitoring
• Speech communication
• Human interfaces using novel techniques

The Matrix Center originated as the Horizon House Technical Institute, providing research and training and technical assistance in the identification of effective human services programs and the preparation of skilled human services personnel to outside organizations. It was renamed the Matrix Research Institute [MRI] and became an independent entity in 1972, then was brought back under the purview of Horizon House in 2003.