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2020 Context issues
167 | ContentsEditorial – Brian Cade Words are not trivial: Taking care with language – Mark Hayward Facilitating a staff support group for an older adult community mental health team – Claire Lee Dialogical writing in supervision – Rachel Ames and Beth Ruffell The beginnings of what was to become a major development in the field – Brian Cade Working privately: A shy story – Maggie Usher The GRACES and Brexit – Vince Hesketh Bringing systemic thinking and ideas to mental health liaison work – Shagufta Balquis Daniel, G. (2019) Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare’s Tragedies. Abingdon: Routledge – Reviewed by Sara Barratt AFT conference, Newcastle, 19-20 September 2019 in association with AFT North East
Parenting a child with ‘diabulimia’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis – Fiona Kennon Markovic, D. (2017) Working With Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide Using A Systemic Social Constructionist Framework. London: Palgrave Macmillan – Reviewed by Jim Sheehan AFT news 168 | ContentsEditorial – Yoko Totsuka and Sylvia Metzer Initial family meetings in adult mental health – Derek Batten, Ryan Holmes, Lucy Hickey and Maeve Malley Family interventions in the Sheffield Early Intervention Service – Kevin Simmons and Diane Morrison Challenges and observations working with adult eating disorders patients and their families – Marilyn Brennan and Sylvia Metzer Who’s driving your life? A group for adults with eating disorders – Ian Lea The masks we wear in friendships: A systemic therapy and dramatherapy group for adults with learning disabilities – Paul Kimber and Laura Blatherwick NewDAy, an innovation project: Bringing systemic ideas to working with domestic violence in a child protection context – Rebecca Infanti-Milne and Lee Walton “Hearing my story”: Collaborative teaching of narrative therapy with an expert-by-experience – Matt Selman Managing risk and making connections in independent practice: Aspens 2020 conference – Gretchen Siglar and Penney Hames AFT news 169 | ContentsReflections on the Covid-19 pandemic – John Hills Uncertain times and certainty – Joanne Hipplewith Editorial – Joanne Hipplewith and John Hills Meeting each other: Improvisation and a generous spirit – Jim Wilson Coming ‘together’ in a family therapy clinic as trainees – Vicky Bristow-Smith, Simone Doffoh, Melissa Nicholas and Eszter Szabo On both sides of the wall – Henry Cockburn The tactics of mistake – on being pushed and pulled – David Steare Thinking about engagement and joining with asylum seeking and refugee families – Matthew Hodes Engaging and being – Gill Wyse Engaging clients through re-engaging ourselves – Hendrix Hammond and Derek Nasseri Working together across country lines: Cultural familiarity and unfamiliarity in both professional and personal contexts – Joanne Hipplewith Engaging those with complex trauma through ‘belonging’ – Michelle Newman Brown Reflections of joining from boy to man to therapist: Influenced by a Joiner – John Cavanagh Growing old disgracefully and working with the disgracefully old: Significant landmarks in the ‘unexplored territory’ of older adulthood – Melanie Shepherd and John Hills Jones, V & Haydon-Laurelut, M. (eds.) (2019) Working with People with Learning Disabilities: Systemic Approaches. London: Red Globe Press. Book review by Joanne Hipplewith From ‘joining’ to ‘social distancing’ – John Cavanagh Lennox Thomas, 1952 – 2020 Annie thinks about ways of using online continued professional training Branching out: Oxford and Chiltern AFT branch update – Shona Reed-Purvis and Sarah Coles AFT news 170 | ContentsEditorial – Ged Smith Ways of working during the COVID-19 crisis – Sarah Helps, Conny Kerman and Carol Halliwell The good enough family therapist: We may choose to be family therapists but not necessarily in circumstances of our choosing – Amy Urry The Dillington conference – family therapy learning jewel in the South West – Richard Clarke Exploring human and societal connection to the climate crisis through the lens of systemic theory – Beki Brain Islamophobia – a systemic perspective: Unpacking prejudices and assumptions – Nasif Nijabat Dr Strangeloop or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mindfulness – Davy Evans “Systemic suitcases, storms and smooth sailing”: Some of my experiences of supervising a family therapy team in a CAMHS disability service – Rachel Ames Groups in family therapy – Ged Smith and Richard Curtis The situation is hopeless but not serious: A tribute to Steve Bennett – Gary Robinson Reflexive positioning as a tool for organisational change: Systemic approaches to implementing outcome measurement – Rob Whittaker and Chloe Lack Spotlight on the AFT office Report of the Directors and Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2019 for The Association for Family Therapy (a Company Limited by Guarantee) 45th AGM agenda Minutes of the 44th AGM of The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice held on Thursday 19th September at the Hilton Hotel, Newcastle, NE8 2AR from 5.30pm to 6.45pm Acting chair report Chief executive officer report Treasurer’s report for the 2020 AGM reporting on the financial year ending 31 December 2019 Journal of Family Therapy report Branch reports AFT news The Association for Family Therapy (AFT) Proxy form for the AGM to be held on Monday 19 October 171 | ContentsEditorial – Pete Brown “You cannot pour from an empty cup”: Self-care in continuing personal and professional development – Gerrilyn Smith The Breakfast Club: A journey of peer supervision and mutual care – Mark Dumbrill, Jason Maldonado-Page and Lottie Scull Am I responsible for all this? From individualising to re-responsibilising NHS organisations – Rachel Dean and Sarah Coles A journey of self-care discovery – Rachel Samuel Towards positions of positive delinquency – Pete Brown Why self-care in education is a three-dimensional process and how therapeutic supervision can benefit all professionals involved – Linda Hafez Looking after ourselves at work: Embracing the principles of non-violent resistance as a method of self-care – Luke Cousins, Mark Batterham and Ramon Wilson “Physician, [first] heal thyself…” Have we lost the art of practitioner self-care? – Charlene Amey Tales from the dark side: Prison nursing, burn-out and the dilemmas of organisational care and self-care – Francesca Antoncino Is this systemic? Navigating occupational risk as a newly qualified family therapist – Deirdre Finneran The resilient practitioner: Self-care strategies for helping professionals – Pete Brown Working in teams: Developing “We-dentity” – Jo Culver, Bruce Kissell, Mike O’Connor, Tim Roberts and Sara Skoglund An antidote to despair: Narrative therapy and burnout – Matt Selman “Being kind to yourself is one of the greatest kindnesses” said the mole: Twelve questions about self-care using a non-violent resistance framework – Nicky Maund and Lydia Stafford The cost of caring – Christiane Sanderson AFT’s webinar programme – bringing continuing professional development to you: A student review – Sezer Fahri and Becky Midlane Branching out – Isle of Wight AFT committee annual reports AFT news Self-care activities 172 | ContentsEditorial – Phil Arthington and Rhonda Mitchell Bringing up baby – the power of a script in infant mental health – Helen Vincent Mighty oaks from little acorns grow: Why beginnings matter – Phil Arthington Co-creating a ‘context of love’: How video can help increase confidence and compassion in our relationships – Helen Gibson “Seeing the wood and the trees”: Repositioning attachment within a dialogical discourse – Rhonda Mitchell Conceiving, gestating and starting to deliver ‘baby family therapy’ services – Michael Galbraith When beginnings look different to what we had planned – the impact of becoming a father to a premature child – Carmel Gould Family therapy in perinatal mental health: A practical approach to using systemic ideas within a developing perinatal mental health service – Abigail Kent To begin and how to begin: Seeking the ‘pattern which connects’ in working systemically with resettled refugee families – Mona-Karina Theodosius “It isn’t what’s said, it’s what’s not said; what says it all” – Lemn Sissay (2016) – Nicola Herring Working systemically with high conflict parents: Encapsulating basic systemic ideas through a process of change – Joanne Jackson and Shadi Shahnavaz Beginnings: On being and becoming a family therapist – Marianne Le Coyte Grinney, Paula Edgington and Sam Wild AFT webinar series: Working Online with Families – presented by Sarah Helps, 9 September 2020 – Reviewed by Amanda Hess AFT webinar series: Insights from the Reducing Parental Conflict Programme – presented by Emily Ingle, 20 August 2020 – Reviewed by Kam Kaur AFT webinar series: BLACK Lives Matter: Let’s Talk about Race – Sharon Bond and Nigel Jacobs in conversation, 19 August 2020 – Reviewed by Victoria Sharman Branching out: AFT Hull and East Riding branch c dreams, aspirations and activity of a new AFT branch – Charlotte Cosquer Screens and teams in systemic psychotherapy: Beginnings, evolution, legitimacy – from the clinic room to professional affairs talk – Lorraine Davies-Smith, Gill Goodwillie and Tracey Woodcock, on behalf of AFT AFT news Cover image © Carly Wagner Photography |
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