NCFR Sections are groups for our members who are interested in a particular family topic area.

Papers are submitted through the peer-review process. Section members review and select which proposals to accept for the conference, plan invited special sessions, and serve as presiders and discussants. In the printed conference program, an abbreviation for whichever section organized or recommends a session for its members to attend is listed next to the session title.

Here's more about each Section:

 

Advancing Family Science (AFS)

• Expands, strengthens, and enhances Family Science as a scholarship discipline.

Education and Enrichment (EE) 

• Shares information on effective Family Life Education, teaching materials and methods, and marriage enrichment interests.

Ethnic Minorities (EM)

• Unites members who are concerned with issues pertaining to ethnic minorities families, to help create a better understanding of the variations in families from diverse ethnic groups.

Families and Health (FH)

• Promotes the health of diverse families and their members across the life span through interdisciplinary activities that facilitate excellence in family health practice, research, education, and policy development.

Family Policy (FP)

• Devotes itself to promoting effective social action for individuals and families by monitoring pressing policy issues, evaluating the potential impacts of new policies, working for effective change, and creating strategies to educate and raise awareness resulting in improved quality of life for individuals, families, and society.

Family Therapy (FT)

• Unites members who share common interests, goals, and purposes in marital and family therapy.

Feminism and Family Studies (FF)

• Works to integrate feminist scholarship and perspectives into theory, research, and applied work with families.

International (IN)

• Generates better understanding of unique variations of family process throughout the world by promoting cross-national family research, facilitating communication among international family scholars, sharing information on current and proposed research projects, and sponsoring educational cross-national family programs, presentations, and seminars.

Religion, Spirituality, and Family (RSF)

• Furthers the cause and study of religion and its relationship to the family. The study and examination of the impact of religion on family life is examined as well as the relationship of religion to other family-related disciplines.

Research & Theory (RT)

•  Facilitates research and theory activities in all content areas related to marriage and the family.

A few other non-Section groups also organize conference sessions:

Students and New Professionals (SNP)

•  Includes anyone who is a student (undergraduate or graduate) or a new professional (within five years of last degree).

Affiliate Councils (AC)

• State, regional, and student chapters of NCFR.

Theory Construction & Research Methodology Workshop (TCRM)

• A forum for the discussion, development, and refinement of theory and research methods relevant to the study of families.