Context - The Association for Family Therapy in the UK

	Context 93 October 2007
	Systemic practice and psychosis: Diversity and inclusion
	Issue editors: Nicola McCarry & Karen Partridge
Contents		page
Editorial: Systemic practice and psychosis; diversity and inclusion
Nicola McCarry and Karen Partridge		1
Supporting systemic thinking in an early intervention in psychosis team
Alex Reed and Kevin Hawkes		3
Drawings and poetry
Allan Haj (throughout this issue)		5
My story
Lillian Robins		6
Family therapy and psychosis: struggling to integrate systemic and biological models
Julia Bland		7
Meeting the needs of families living with psychosis: implications for services
Dan Pearson, Frank Burbach and Roger Stanbridge		9
Three journeys towards integrating models when working with families and psychosis
Sara Meddings, Debbie Owen, Frank Burbach and Mair Thomas		13
Family intervention and psychosis: the story of the continuing development of the Leeds early intervention in psychosis service
Val Jackson with Gemma Elks		17
A carer’s perspective
Anonymous		19
Dipping your toes into change: a family clinic in an adult acute psychiatric ward
Nicolette de Villiers, Ché Rosebert and Annie Turner		20
Holding onto fragments: reflections on using mind maps in therapy
Karen Partridge and Marie		22
Psychosis: a personal perspective
Anonymous		27
Using a systemic family perspective in a secure in-patient setting for adults with psychoses
Jo Bownas		30
The experience of hearing voices: who do we listen to?
Mark Hayward		34
The inspiration of hope in early psychosis
Dan Pearson		37
Living with psychosis: a narrative framework
Jelena Manojlovic		41
Developing a rural family intervention service: the family’s perspective
Cathy Clegg and Margaret Cogan		44
AFT news		47
Advertising		51
Cover image by Allan Haj. Cartoons throughout by Brian Cade and Merinda Epstein.