Context 101 February 2009  
Living with dying and bereavement
Issue editors: Judith Bevan and Eleanor Anderson
Contents page
Editorial  
Judith Bevan and Eleanor Anderson
1
Sculpture as communication  
Jill Watson 3
Engaging the ‘reflecting community’: the impact of suicide in a small rural community
Sarah Eldrid
2
A personal perspective on researching childhood bereavement  
Ana Draper
5
A children’s bereavement service: a personal view
Karina Russell 7
Groups within groups: a programme for bereaved children  
Pam Goldstein and Sue Friend 9
Loss and looked after and adopted children  
Sara Barratt 11
Using therapeutic letters  
Liz Day 15
Living with terminal illness  
Judy Rathbone 18
The multiple faces of hope  
Ana Draper 20
Journeying towards death: a life’s work  
Chris Hannah 22
Thai culture, death and emotion: a personal reflection  
Caroline Wells 24
Responding to a tragedy: an invitation to self-reflexive dialogue  
Enid Colmer and Rupalee Suresh 26
Becoming a family of three  
John Wheeler 29
The professional impact of client suicide: a research study  
Gina Bird 31
Talking about talking, hesitations to talk and not-talking  
An Hooghe 33
Losses and new positions  
Rory Worthington 36
Between the material and the supernatural: Therapeutic implications of bereaved individuals’ experience of contact with the deceased person  
Hugh Palmer 40
Facing down death: short reflections on death, love and happiness  
John Hills 44
Workshop reports: AFT conference, Manchester: 48
RICAP – reflective interpersonal therapy for children and parents.  
Workshop presenter: Hermione Roff. Workshop reporter: Jennifer Atkinson  
Co-constructing narratives: an exploration of the journey of unaccompanied refugee young people and their therapist – a tale from qualitative research.  
Workshop presenter: Máire Stedman. Workshop reporters: Pete Harmsworth and Lorna Edwards.  
Responding to the MMM challenge: making systemic therapy happen in multi-agency, multi-disciplinary, multi-modal contexts.  
Workshop presenter: David Amias. Workshop reporter: Branwen McHugh.  
ADHD – regeneration: linking the old and the new.  
Workshop presenter: Gary Robinson. Workshop reporter: Tom O’ Neill  
Stories with a therapeutic twist.  
Workshop Presenters: Mark Rivett and Steve Killick. Workshop reporter: Shelagh Wright.  
Into the new: the AFT conference as experienced by a newly qualified family therapist.  
Workshop reporter: Linda Staines.  
The AFT Conference, Manchester, in pictures 52
Research adventures  
Peter Stratton 54
AFT news 55
Advertising 58
Cartoons and photography: Posy Simmonds, Brian Cade, Chris Hills, Tony Widdowson and Louise Norris. Cover photograph © Benjamin Tindall.  

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

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