Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
Z through ZZ

Established in 1965, Zenkaren (National Federation of Families of the Mentally Ill) was the oldest and largest stakeholders organization for families of people with mental illness and the only organization officially designated for promoting vocational rehabilitation for people with mental illnesses. It had over 130,000 members and covered 1,600 associations nationwide. It operated 800 psychosocial sheltered workshops throughout Japan, where stigma largely prevents employers from hiring a person who has been treated for mental illness.

Found to have misappropriated funds, Zenkaren was unable to meet its financial obligations and dissolved itself.

The official publication of Zero to Three is Zero to Three.

• Provide innovative and challenging continuing education for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counselors, nurses and other health care providers
• Make available to psychotherapists and counselors cutting-edge resources on numerous aspects of mental health and psychotherapeutic interventions
• Fight the abuses and harm done by managed care to consumers by denying them care, and to psychotherapists, who are often unreasonably and unjustly denied the opportunity to provide quality and much needed care
• Help psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, marriage and family therapists and counselors build and market a fee-for-service and managed-care-free private practice.
• Educate psychotherapists about the risks of and harm done by rigid risk management practices
• Replace therapists' fear of boards, attorneys and lawsuits with clinical integrity and quality care.
• Help health practitioners substitute rigid practices and dogmatic thinking with flexible approaches, humane practices and critical thinking
• Encourage health care practitioners to focus on health and wellness, rather than on the DSM and pathology