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2024 Context issues
191 | ContentsEditorial – Ged Smith Loneliness and connection in the therapy room – Jill Michiels and Dirk De Wachter How to navigate family therapy conferences: Or FOMB(o)P (fear of missing a better presentation) – The Systemic Scribblers Stealing attention from the body and the personal – Jo Warren Emotionally focused family therapy (EFFT): Restoring connection and promoting resilience – James Furrow and Sarah McConnell Systemic psychotherapy and EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing): A story of mutual influence – Rita McGrath On becoming a therapist: A counsellor’s journey towards maintaining person-centred ideas whilst training as a systemic therapist – Luke CousinsInviting change through community expertise: Embedding a systemic model of practice in the relationships between volunteers and young people – Rachel Lythe How might clinical psychologists use systemic theory and practice in a child and adolescent mental health service? Lucy Jones We need to talk about youth violence – Naomi Beet “A lot of different flowers make a bouquet”: The 4th autism and systemic practice conference, July 2023 – Reviewed by David Steare and Monica Whyte South West AFT annual conference 2023: Dillington relocated. Every Brilliant Thing: A theatrical performance. Angus Crutchfield Matthew Ganda – Sharon Evans A ‘draw up’ of reflections about the ‘Building bridges for peace’ AFT conference 2023 – Ruth Imber JoFT goes digital – Sarah Helps AFT news 192 | ContentsEditorial – Danny McGowan and Abigail Bode Class without the tea – TK Vincent Voicing the untellable: Inviting class to the conversation – Vicki Kitts Know your place – Abigail Bode ‘We need to talk about capitalism’ – class and curiosity – Danny McGowan Healing – a function of a connected community? – Angela Fell Black and brown people have no class – Telema Jack Class, inequality, and family therapy: *From 7/84 to 1/90 – Jim Wilson What did the social graces do for us, and why is therapy hiding from politics? – Nicola Bowden-Jones On a journey towards authentic anti-racist practice: Reflections from the Surge Team in Hackney – Amandine Mourière, Rebecca Infanti-Milne, Aaron McDonald, Cherelle Johanson, Claudia Rodrigues and Michelle Simmons-Safo Introducing multi-systemic therapy – Amy Jackson Review of an audio presentation of the book Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey – Neisha Lowe AFT diversity working party: Meet the class, employment and income group – Jennifer McKinney, John Burnham, Carole Rich and Donna Wright The centre for individual and family identity: Establishing a service for families created through donor conception and surrogacy and others involved in this process – Sharon Pettle AFT webinars: Setting out the landscape – donor conception and surrogacy – a webinar by Sharon Pettle, 15 January 2024 – Report by Kirsty Fallow Billy Hardy – friends in dialogue (Billy Hardy –1961-2024) – Leah Salter and Kieran Vivian-Byrne Branching out: Derbyshire AFT (DAFT) – Nicola Herring An interview with Jeff Young, author of No Bullshit Therapy: How to engage people who don’t want to work with you, 2023, Routledge UK – Ged Smith and Jeff Young Systemic practice research survey: Mapping training activities across the UK – Naureen Whittinger AFT news 193 | ContentsEditorial – Esther Usiskin Cohen and Ana Draper Reflexive rationalities for everyday leadership – part 1: The lens of theory – Christine Oliver Leadership coaching with a systemic twist: A coach’s perspective, part 1 – tuning into the systems conditions within which coaching takes place – Barbara McKay Felting into leadership: Wefts, wisps, and entanglements – Rozen Rauf and Karen Partridge Tavistock’s D24 course: Child, adolescent and family mental wellbeing multidisciplinary practice – reflections of a new course lead – Jason Maldonado-Page “Tread softly, breathe peacefully, laugh hysterically” (Nelson Mandela): Navigating the treacherous land of systemic leadership during a pandemic…and other tales – Heleni-Georgia Andreadi Moments as a form of leadership – Ana Draper, Rachel Scott and Elisa Marcellino How do we teach systemic leadership management and consultation? Reflections on delivering such a course – Esther Usiskin Cohen, Ngozi Anuforo and Hazel Hyslop Embracing the embroidery: Black women leading authentically within multifaceted narratives – Antonia Ogundayisi Reflexive rationalities for everyday leadership – part 2: The lens of practice – Christine Oliver Leadership coaching with a systemic twist: A coach’s perspective, part 2 – tuning into the person and the professional as an influential voice in the system – Barbara McKay IFTA Congress 2024, Toyama, Japan – Shan Tate and Chip Chimera Branching out: Manchester AFT – Lisa Nicolson Update on ‘Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people’ AFT news
194 | ContentsEditorial – Carole Payne Therapy at one remove – using the professional network to work with a young person in care through correspondence – Helen Stead Conversations on gender and sexuality – Ali Knight, Matei Dudu, Patience Akande, Rosie Buckland and Sarah Favier On being a sibling: Resonances in research – Faye McDonell Decolonising systemic constellations – Sonya Welch-Moring ‘Roses’ – practising independently as a family therapist: What happens when amidst these beautiful rose petals – we find thorns? – Rory Worthington The positioning of the ballerina: A playful narration of reading about the positioning of the therapist – Ruth Imber Experimenting with action-oriented reflecting-team techniques – Pete Brown, Shayo Bryan-Fenelon, Gemma Kelly, Mallika Verma and Hanna Crease Talking about “noise”: The challenges of working systemically with complex trauma, issues of context, epistemology, and paradigm – Arlette Kavanagh Growing together: A tree of life informed sibling intervention – Amy Johnson and Manus Moynihan Who will we be to each other? A letter to my future, fully-qualified systemic psychotherapist self – Alexa Smith Report of a West Country AFT workshop located at Bath City Farm offering mental, emotional and spiritually enriching possibilities for nature-based systemic work – Angus Crutchfield Adolescent self-harm in the family: A systemic attachment perspective, presented by Ramón Karamat-Ali, hosted online by Derbyshire Association of Family Therapy (DAFT) on 23 May 2024 – Report by Nicola Herring Listening, learning and reflecting: The AFT community’s response to Context 191 AFT news 195 | ContentsEditorial – Prudencia Woode, Emma Louise Short, Shakira Maknoon, John Burnham, Sharon Evans and Jill Morgan Ancestral re-membering in the systemic community – John Burnham and Anne-Marie Reid Systemic social location wheel –
Shakira Maknoon, Emma Louise Short, Prudencia Woode and Sharon Evans Race: The cornerstone to connection, relationships and change – Heidi P. Karamat Ali and Ramón Karamat Ali POWERS – emerging spaces for discourses on power – Shakira Maknoon, Emma Louise Short, Prudencia Woode, John Burnham, Jan Lampard, Gurminder Neta, Jill Morgan, Samuel Angus and Sharon Evans ‘Race’ matters: Widening the gaze – a self-reflexive account of personal and professional stories when working with organisational systems in CAMHS – Farzana Lina Navigating ‘White Fragility’ in systemic practice: Clinical supervision and management – a personal reflection – Kenyah Nyameche Raw earth – handbuilding and beyond: An artist tutor’s experience of being with(in) clay – Munirah Olton Stepping back and/or stepping forward: Motion in poetry – dancing to the beat of systemic thinking and towards collaborative authorship – Prudencia Woode and John Burnham Poetry – Shakira Maknoon European Family Therapy Association (EFTA); National Family Therapy Organisations (NFTO) Branching out: AFT Cymru – Clare Cribb AFT news 196 | ContentsEditorial – Pete Brown and Miriam Chachamu Towards a theory of temperament in systemic therapy: Building a bridge between temperament and attachment in the systemic domain – Pete Brown I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand: A creative, needs-led approach for parents – Linda Hoggan and Carmen Kane The pizza technique: A fun activity to challenge negativity – Miriam Chachamu Understanding therapeutic parenting: A trauma-informed approach – Sair Penna A Westminster weave – from parent programme participant to systemic supervisor – Sara Thomas Possibility parenting: Systemic ideas in practice – Paul Hackett Including infants in systemic family therapy and parenting approaches – Sally Fraser The journey of parenting: A narrative approach to exploring changing identities, resources and hope for parents and carers – Orla Jordan Being fair as a parent is hard: Parenting siblings of children with additional needs – Barbara Babcock Interweaving PACE principles and systemic ideas: To provide an emotional anchor for parenting work – Joanna Latham and ‘Michelle’ They think it’s all over: Searching for the invariant parenting prescription – Gary Robinson Outside in to inside out: Bringing the body into a systemic approach to parenting work – Charlotte Jaggar EFTA: Montenegro – Jola Dojic A tribute to Donna Dell Smith, who died aged 92 on 12 August 2024 – Jane Batchelor, Jan Cooper, Judith Lask, Angela Markham, Isobel Reilly, Jacqui Sayers, Margaret Sykes, Shan Tate and Amy Urry Ana Draper, Elisa Marcellino and Samantha Thomson (2024) Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation, published by Routledge – Review by Eleanor Osman Branching out: AFT North East – Justin Woodward-Court, Caroline Waugh, Tonia Forster and Stephen Harrison Feedback from the AFT conference AFT news – end of year report Asian Academy of Family Therapy (AAFT) annual conference 2024, Shanghai: Rethinking “mental health” in the context of radically changing familial and social norms – Sarah Helps Letter to Context |
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