Context - The Association for Family Therapy in the UK

	Context 99 October 2008
	Developing sytemic practice and ideas in Northern Ireland over the past 30 years
	Issue editors: Cathy Jayat and Moira Davren
Contents		page
Editorial
Moira Davren and Cathy Jayat		1
How did we get here? An exploration of the development of family therapy in Whitefield/Youth Justice
Artie O’Neill		2
Applying the randomised controlled trial (RCT) design in a ‘real world’ community-basedclinical setting
Stephen Coulter		6
Personal travels with my prejudices
Jim Wilson		10
Poetry reprised
Isobel Reilly		13
Towards culturally sensitive practice: One training course’s response to the challenge for systemic training within the context of a divided society
Isobel Reilly, Jo Marley and Laura Coulter		14
Student research dissertations: MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy, Queen’s University, Belfast
Isobel Reilly		18
Thirty plus years of family therapy activity in Northern Ireland
Sam Allison, Artie O’Neill and Isobel Reilly		20
30 years of AFT NI: A celebration in pictures
Photographs by John Briggs		24
Journeys
Barry Mason		27
Working in CAMHS – team perspectives
Eamon McMahon, Chrissie Maguire and Karen Fulton		29
Interview with Arlene Vetere
Carmel O’Hagan and Ann Lloyd		33
“Moving from dangerous to respectful cycles” – working systemically with domestic violence
Bernie Cunningham and Gerry Cunningham		35
A tribute to Dr Noel McCune
Clare MacAuley and Ursula McKeown		39
Working with families with children in the Youth Justice System
Mary O’Neill		41
Two different worlds
Michael Heaney		42
Journeys North and South
Marie Kenny		44
Into the West: A conversation on change from the margins
Keith Kerrigan		46
Research update: Political questions and research answers
Peter Stratton		50
AFT news		51
Advertising		55
Photography by John Briggs, with the exception of some images used on the cover, which were provided courtesy of Belfast Visitor and Convention Bureau.