There are over 1,500 members of AFT .
Overseas members are welcome.
Although only a minority of AFT members are entitled 'family therapists', one of AFT 's purposes is to develop the profession and to establish standards for training and registration through the UK Council for Psychotherapy. Members of AFT work to improve the standards of professional family therapy and systems practice by using family systems ideas and methods and promoting these ideas in practice, training, management and research.