Revised by Marcia Chappell May 5, 2008			News and Coming Events 2008 AFTI Announced The next Advanced Feminist Therapy Institute will be held October 17-19, 2008 in Chicago. Participants will be part of a working group devoted to developing a new model to guide feminist, cultural and critical assessment and intervention in therapy and activism. The model will be based on the Contextual Ecological Feminist Model described by Susan Barrett and Mary Ballou in Feminist Therapy: Theory and Practice, edited by Mary Ballou,  Marcia Hill and Carolyn West. Psychology has the need for a shared language and organizational structure for assessment and intervention that includes the awareness of power, culture and other socio-cultural variables in addition to the still relevant variables of the individual and interpersonal relationships.  An alternative model couldn’t have been done 25 years ago when FTI began and it won’t be finished or widely available for use anytime soon.  However it is important to work toward that goal, both for the sake of therapy and to keep ourselves energized. Feminist Therapy and Practice Published Feminist Therapy Theory and Practice: A Contemporary Perspective, edited by Mary Ballou, Marcia Hill, and Carolyn Hill, with chapters contributed by many FTI members, is now available. It's published by Springer and is available from Springer, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online retailers.