Context - The Association for Family Therapy in the UK

	Context 104 August 2009
	Training and personal professional development
	Issue editor: Ged Smith
Contents		page
Editorial
Ged Smith		1
Dear Julia and Paul – letters that tell a story
Barry Bowen		2
The family
Ged Smith		4
Ordinary life therapy: Experiences from a collaborative systemic practice
Carina Håkansson		5
Frantz Fanon: A forgotten psychiatry innovator
Carlos J Sanchez		8
Whiteness in clinical practice
Enid Colmer, Claire Dempster, Matthew Ganda, Philip Messent, Frances Minhinnick and Jennifer Wallis		11
The quantification of the genogram as a family history tool for adult patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Anastasia Tsamparli, Dimitra Siousioura and Marie-George Lily Stylianoudi		15
A family therapist in Africa
Philip Messent		18
A systemic approach to the ‘Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families’
Claire Sammut		22
Parenting apart
Jean Walker and Semra Gulbahar		24
Let’s talk: The application of systemic theory and practice to new religious movements and their past and current adherents
Alastair Pearson		26
Recovery, schizophrenia and family therapy
Annie Turner and Yasmin Siddiqi		29
A surprise in each encounter
Olga Rochkovski		31
Reflecting puppet shows: Evoking drama through improvisation
Pete Brown		33
Dialogue cards: Making difficult conversations possible
Richard Lahey-James and Irene Samuel		36
Book review
Chachamu, Miriam (2008) How to Calm a Challenging Child. Reviewed by Georgina Vintin		39
Research update – Amazing research by Russell Crane and colleagues
Peter Stratton		40
AFT news		58
Notice of Annual General Meeting		42
Advertising		42
Booking Form: AFT Conference 11 - 13 September 2009, Cambridge, “Families First – Family Therapy in and beyond the consulting room”		45
Elections for Management Committee and Association for Family Therapy Proxy forms		49
Cartoon: Brian Cade