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2012 Context issues119 | ContentsToo hot, too cold or just right? Supervising family work with young children - Chip Chimera A training tutorial on solution-focused therapy: A forum of voices sharing their reflections - Chiara Santin “Walk a mile….. and/or sit a while”, with both/and in mind - Alison Burgess Supervision, a place to learn a profession: Psychotherapy - Olga Rochkovski Medical conversations inviting change - Lisa Miller So you’re thinking of doing an MSc? - Helen Atkins & Christopher MacGovern Mud pools and daisies: Using the CMM Daisy to aid decision making in live-training supervision - Mary Morris Systemic means much more – in the community and for other professions - Nick Child The AFT National Conference, September 2011, Buxton A history of DAFT Pre-conference event - Report: Gary Robinson The opening plenary: “One big tip and ten top systemic tips” - Presenters: Kathryn Blackshaw and Ged Smith. Report: Gary Robinson Straight talk in the therapeutic session - Presenter: Paolo Bertrando. Report: Brian Cade On reflection and reflexivity as a triadic relational space: Theory invitations to creative and diverse reflective practices in family therapy - Presenter: Carmel Flaskas. Report: Heather Townsend AFT National Conference workshop reports The creative toolbox: Invigorating situations of stuckness - Presenters: Nina Gotua and Claudia Forero. Report: Viv Uttley Living and working with ADHD & ASD: The art & science of systemic diagnosis, treatment & support - Presenters: Gary Robinson and Lucia Whitney. Report: Julie Brough Narratives of connection, difference and belonging: The complexities that arise for gay and lesbian-headed families - Presenters: Sara Barratt and Julia Granville. Report: Kate Pelissier Making the most of ordinary moments - Presenters: John Burnham and Barry Mason. Report: Karen Loveridge Untitled workshop - Presenter: Brian Cade. Report: Caroline Wells Language: Risks and relationships in systemic therapy - Presenter: Ged Smith. Report: Hugh Palmer Transparency in action - Presenters: Sarah Favier, Simon Jubb and Charlie Stanley. Report: Debbie Holmes Using the ‘tree of life’ as a framework for brief systemic family assessments within CAMHS - Presenter: Gill Goodwillie. Report: Ruth Pugh Creative ways of building a collaborative practice within a trauma setting - Presenters: Kathleen Van de Vijver, Liz Forbat and Roy Farquharson. Report: Ann Overton Outcome-orientated CAMHS: A whole service model for CAMHS - Presenter: Sami Timimi. Report: Sara Barratt Mindstep: A whole new mindset for systemic practice - Presenters: Caitlin Blythin and Natalie Alleyne. Report: David Glenister Update of how families report the quality of their life together using the SCORE outcome measure - Presenter: Peter Stratton. Report: David Amias Involving young people in the planning and running of a service - Presenter: Ian Lea. Report: Lucy Robertson-Ritchie Kinky not straight-laced practices - Presenters: The diversity, equal opportunities & inclusivity committee (Pat Gray, Nicola McCarry, Rory Worthington). Report: Deb Moore and Cathy Taylor Ordinary training for extraordinary practice – a meeting of counselling and psychotherapy - Presenters: Kieran Vivian-Byrne and Billy Hardy. Report: Karen Allan Picnic among the Aspens - Report: Michelle Newman Brown Systemic behavioural couples treatment for depression: The Exeter model - Presenter: Hannah Sherbersky. Report: David Secrett Reflections on research presentations - Facilitator: Mark Rivett. Report: Jane Masters Post conference reflections - Gary Robinson Burck, C. & Daniel, G. (Eds.) (2010) Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision. London: Karnac - Reviewed by Ged Smith Research update: The New Savoy Conference - Peter Stratton Reflexive dialogues in CRED accreditations - Jeanette Neden and Annie Turner
120 | ContentsCAMHS and the art of outreach - Alistair Pearson Responsiveness, permission-seeking and risk: Three motifs in the development of outreach family therapy services and therapist reflexivity - Percy Aggett Finding a voice - Sue Robinson and Helen Mahaffey Working with excluded teenagers in schools - Sylvia Metzer Challenges and benefits in the creation of an interdisciplinary clinic - Jerry Gale A story of a family and multisystemic therapy: What stories do families tell about their experiences of it? - Collette Wiliams Narrative approaches to group parenting work: Using the tree of life with 'hard-to-reach' parents - Fiona McFarlane and Hannah Howes Going beyond: Collaborative work between a community mental health team and a children's centre - Noah Solarin Lyra's compass: Some reflections on the tensions between knowledge and relationships in developing community outreach services - Percy Aggett and Dermot Ryall Outreach - reaching out in differing contexts - Nick Barnes Therapeutic responses to families in crisis: From 'Family Rescue' to 'I Hate Mum' - a family therapy team's experience of participating in a documentary for BBC television - Melissa Aitken, Gill Stevens, Ben Wellens, Alison Martin and Pete Brown Bateson's legacy to systemic practice - Dorothy Reynolds Research update: Academic and research implications of government moves - Peter Stratton 121 | ContentsJust do it: The therapist’s recursive relationship of being and acting with couples in therapy – Frank Thomas and Timothy Dwyer Solution building with couples: A solution-focused approach – “The most amazing thing I have ever heard a client say” – Elliott Connie Bipolar thinking and therapy: A mania for diagnosis? – Sue Gagg Integrative behavioural couple-therapy: Couple therapy with couples where there is depression – Gill Wyse and Annie Turner Building rafts with couples and families – John Wheeler Tell it like it is: How professionals misrepresent sexualised violence against children – Linda Coates and Allan Wade Families’ views on the family-liaison service on mental health wards in Somerset – Sara Gore and Roger Stanbridge Roger and me: The odd couple – Anna Dias Working systemically with groups – Chiara Santin When social service stops serving social service: A fragmented reconstruction of the original text fragments – Frank Thomas Working with multi-problem high-stressed families and young people with serious behavioural problems – Christine Senediak Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Torture: To Have Our Hearts Broken, by Taiwo Afuape (London: Taylor & Francis, 2011) – Gillian Hughes interviews Taiwo Afuape about her new book Research update: USPs for SCFTs – Peter Stratton
122 | ContentsEditorial – Ged Smith The use of resonances in supervision – Shadi Shahnavaz Family therapy MSc theoretical essay: The use of questions in the family therapy literature – Tom Jewell CDT: Competence-directed therapy – an outline – Paul Hackett Journeying with hope: Group work with children from refugee and asylum-seeking families – Sharon Soper and Joanne Anning “A fish across the water” – an international externship with Karl Tomm and his team in Calgary – Kyla Mckillop Training about non-shared family experience: Listening to the unsaid and addressing the untaught – Rob Wrate and Alison Burgess Illness in the family: Reflections on personal and professional experiences of care giving and illness – Alex Reed “Family therapy: Yes-no-maybe?” – Chris James, Annie Fatima and Eva Murphy “The big bang”: A story of evolution through the MSc in systemic psychotherapy – Susannah Melville, Leah Salter and Billy Hardy The session recording: Myth, meta-narrative or metamorphosis – Mark Wheeler Postmodernism, social constructionism, culture and narrative as a basis for systemic rehabilitation of long-term conditions in the NHS in Scotland – Stewart Donald The smartphone in the therapy room: The tiny heads of vast pan-dimensional beings – Mark Wheeler Working in partnership and systemically within a social work unit: Workers’ own experiences – Cinzia Taffagli Research update. HELP: We need somebodies (with apologies to The Beatles) – Peter Stratton Update from the diversity, equal opportunities and inclusivity committee – Roy Farquharson 123 | ContentsEditorial - Serena Potter & Chris Mannings Talking heads: Alan Cooklin and Eia Asen reflect on the history of the multi-family model at the Marlborough Family Service in London - Alan Cooklin, Eia Asen, Chris Mannings & Marta Costa-Caballero The history and development of Marlborough multi-family groups in education - Neil Dawson and Brenda McHugh A day in the life of the Marlborough Family Education Centre - Serena Potter, Anthony Scrafton & Trish Kenna Whose challenging behaviour is it anyway? - Cecily Engle & Marta Costa-Caballero Voices - Rosan McCall & Trish Kenna “The experts are the parents in the room”: The school perspective - Viv Sanassy, Laura Downes & Chris Mannings Multi-family groups in schools – working with parents as partners: A mother’s story - Serena Potter A life in the day of a Marlborough early-intervention worker (a composite picture of a typical day) - Cecily Engle, Lottie Scull & Rosan McCall FiSch – family in school – a German experience - Ulrike Behme-Matthiessen, Thomas Pletsch & Andree Nykamp Multi-family work within and across cultures: Challenges and opportunities - Rakhee Haque & Philippe Mandin The school as a ‘secure base’ for therapeutic work: Multi-disciplinary working in multi-family groups - Marta Costa-Caballero & Joanne Early Kidstime - Alan Cooklin A multi-family group in a standard CAMHS outpatient context - Sami Timimi The Willows family group: A special school setting - Jo Hickford Marlborough multi-family inclusion in Næstved: Training professionals in Denmark - Helge Andreasen, Trine Rønne & Karen Lindegaard Multi-family therapy at The Bridge Academy - Marcia Rowe Book review – Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives, edited by Inga-Britt Krause (2012, London: Karnac) - Reviewed by Rachel Watson Book review – Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques, by Harvey Ratner, Evan George and Chris Iveson (London: Routledge, 2012) - Reviewed by John Wheeler and Alex Millham In memory of Peggy Penn - Brian Cade AFT news Aspens noticeboard - Dana Mills-Powell First Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) conference: Held at UCL – 16 July 2012 - A report by Sue Jones who attended on behalf of AFT 124 | ContentsEditorial: Systemic practice in forensic settings – Andrea Davies & John Doran Gathering momentum: Working systemically in forensic contexts – Andrea Davies Working on the quiet: Systemic work in forensic settings in the UK – Compiled by Andrea Davies & Reena Shah Warm welcomes in unfamiliar places: A systemic approach to including families in a secure adolescent mental health inpatient unit – Jo Bownas & Esther Wilson Working across the borderlines: Applying systemic thinking to a forensic psychiatric-nursing context – Matthew Klaushofer Nowhere to hide – Andrea Davies & John Doran Looking through the mirror: Perspectives of a forensic psychiatrist – Gaynor Jones Reflections on conversations about risa, risc and risco – Susannah Melville Including families in therapy: Challenges and opportunities – Clare Bingham & Rachel Smith Supporting ‘family day’: Occupational therapy with a solution focus in a prison setting – Margaret Marlow, Carolyn Morris & Rayya Ghul Systemic practice in higher education: A systemic consultancy for postgraduate-research students – Annette MacArtain-Kerr People with learning disabilities and the construction of interpersonal relationships – Danielle Wilson, Lorna Robbins & Carol Martin Thomas Szasz: 1920 – 2012 – John Hills News from the Journal: Papers that challenge us to be better clinicians – Mark Rivett Call for articles and invitation for networking: Working with “troubled families” (Context 131: 2014) – Yoko Totsuka Research update: Making a difference – Peter Stratton AFT news Aspens noticeboard – Tessa Jones This issue is not available |
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