Context - The Association for Family Therapy in the UK

	Context 109 June 2010

	Issue editor: Ged Smith
Contents		page
Editorial
Ged Smith		1
Reflections on the set-up and practice of a new CAMHS primary mental health worker service
Lumi Henshaw & Emma Harries		2
Language and family therapy: Some brief notes on practice
Ged Smith		4
Talking without fear: A therapeutic programme for mothers and children who have experienced domestic violence
Shadi Shahnavaz		5
Families and the professional network revisited
Peter Hardwick		7
The application of the ‘tree of life’ to an individual psychological intervention
Ella Cullen		11
Opinion: The systematic deconstruction of Mum and Dad
Shelagh Wright		15
Perspectives: A case study from the perspective of the therapist then reviewed by the client and co-worker
Annette Mac Artain-Kerr		16
A difference that is making a difference: The Tayside post-trauma therapy team – a truly systemic initiative offering therapy for families delivered by therapists from child and adult services
Alastair Hull, Bill Ness and Helen Smith		21
Riding a bike with the brakes on: A new family therapy team reflect on working in a medium secure unit through an interview with Elsa Jones
John Doran, Andrea Davies and James Godfrey		24
‘Changing things without changing things too much’: The challenges of bringing a new project into an existing system
Matthew Lister		27
The power of the genogram
Matthew Adam		30
Working with marginalised families: “Can you do that without breaking too many eggs?”
Carlos J. Sanchez		32
Reflections on PPD in the third age
Liz Burns		35
Book review: Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View, by Liz Burns (2009), Karnac
Ruth Reay		38
The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session – A book review and interview with Brad Keeney
Alex Millham		39
Research is political. So is politics
Peter Stratton		41
AFT news		42
On the making of a training DVD about the cultural genogram
Wilma C. Mangabeira		44
Advertising		46