IASA Activities

To facilitate communication amongst members

• Newsletter, website, reviews of published research, theory, and applications, construction of databases

To promote DMM thinking and methods

• Talks, conference presentations, publications
• Reviews, meta-analyses
• Teaching, training, supervision

To foster basic research on development and adaptation

• Continuing to integrate new theory and empirical results into existing theory (correcting error, increasing precision, expanding into new areas)
• Promoting research on both basic and applied aspects (Research consultation)

To foster research on interventions and treatment

• Research on existing treatments and techniques, informed by DMM (with a specific focus on interpersonal processes in treatment, including the therapist processes)
• Production of new (testable) theory on integrated treatments

To influence treatment and social policies

• Social policies
• Organization of services for treatment and prevention
• Clinical treatment