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2017 Context issues
149 | ContentsEditorial – Brian Cade Family therapy and improvisation – awareness and adapting to alternatives when two fields mix – Matt Selman and Shawn Kinley The Boys Baking Club: Embracing creativity to explore emotions in boys who have a learning disability – Peter Jones, Gemma Worthington and Laura Graham Learning with and from each other: A patchwork process – Fiona Kennon The personal is political: The political is personal – Mary Morris Insights from inside: Working systemically with high risk prisoners with signs of emerging personality disorders – Patrick Kuhn Inviting the outside in: Working systemically in a therapeutic residential setting – John Agudelo Viva voce – the trainee-supervisor voice – collaborative examination? The Tavistock Centre experience – Sara Barratt, Laura Glendinning and Gillian Hughes A diagram for family-of-origin conversations – Danny McGowan and Sarah Wolfe Foundations – Michelle McLaughlin Reflections on the 2016 AFT conference, Brighton: Making Waves: Diverse Conversations by the Sea – Tanya Smart Comments on the 2016 AFT conference, Brighton: A short story – Chiara Santin Ged Smith workshop – Language, risks and relationships in the art of therapy: Becoming a therapist – Mark Hurst Annie struggles with contracts AFT news Become a systemic practioner member of AFT 150 | ContentsEditorial – Marilyn Brennan and Jeanne Ziminski Dialogical dramatics: Role-play with professional actors in family therapy training – Matt Selman Family interventions for adults: A learning journey for students and tutors – Tanya Smart Facilitating the development of self-reflexivity with first and second year trainees – Marilyn Brennan and Cathy Taylor Moving with the times: Responsive training for changing professional contexts – Barbara McKay The experience of intermediate training in family therapy – Masuma Rahim A pathway through the landscape of theory – Jeanne Ziminski Taking a chance – reclaiming social work practice the Scottish way – Fiona Crombie Community networks for family care – Delroy Powell and Annie Turner A journey to becoming independent – Sharon Bond Video review and CYP IAPT systemic family practice training – Tom O’Neill and Gary Robinson Planting little acorns and such!! Gerry Cunningham and Donal McAteer A day in the life of a CRED panellist: Have case, will travel! Gill Wyse Wake up! Wake up! Where have all the family therapists gone? Billy Hardy I, Daniel Blake (2016) British/French film, directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty. Starring Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan and Briana Shann. Review by Liz Burns. Paul Hingston (2016) Rethinking Psychotherapy. Leicester: Matador. Review by Liz Burns. Annie enjoys sparkling moments at the Aspens conference The Aspens conference Duchess of Cambridge visit – Julia Evans AFT news Branching out 151 | ContentsEditorial – Sarah Helps Gender – gender identity – geography – race – religion – age – ability – appearance – class – culture – caste – education – ethnicity – economics – spirituality – sexuality – sexual orientation – writ large on the wall – Rukiya Jemmott (Dis)gracefully engaging with diversity learning – reflections on the social graces as a training tool – Lizette Nolte Graces that bite: Unleashing the GRR in the graces – Karen Partridge and Nicola McCarry Working with religious people: Personal and professional reflections – Barry Mason Equalism: The heart of the social graces – Nick Child Intersectionality and systemic therapy – Catherine Butler Exploration of attire as an unvoiced ‘GRACE’ – Sophie Cockell How DNA helped to go deeper: A Puerto Rican therapist’s reflections of his exploration of ethnicity – Jason Maldonado-Page Putting the pieces together – Jos Twist Therapeutic coherence: Exploring the lived and untold stories of our lives – Davy Evans, Frances Minhinnick & Simon Thompson Be-wilder – Stephen Mills ‘Dissing’ the social graces – Victoria Jones and Donna Reeve Ability and the graces: Dancing gracefully (or not) around difference – reflections on the meaning of ability – Sarah Coles G is for geography – Leah Salter Commentaries on this issue – John Burnham and Alison Roper-Hall Jo Bownas & Glenda Fredman (eds.) (2017) Working with Embodiment in Supervision: A Systemic Approach. London: Routledge. – Reviewed by Jim Wilson International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) Congress, 16 – 18 March 2017, Malaga – Shan Tate and Hannah Sherbersky Annie explores the social GGRRAAACCEEESSS Branching out AFT news
152 | ContentsEditorial – Ged Smith Systemic therapy: From the other side – Rachael Lambe The aesthetics of interruption: Points of entry in systemic therapy – Ged Smith Signposts and weathercocks: Travels with ethics in supervision practice in Hull – Nuala Cullen A mind crammed full isn’t mindful: ‘We are upset and angry and we’re talking politics and money – it’s a dirty subject’ – Maggie Usher and Elaine Holliday Systemic practice in an inpatient unit: Limitations and frustrations – how do we move forward? – Philippa Donald ‘Having a learning disability isn’t the end of everything’: Reflections on creating the tree of life with individuals with intellectual disabilities – Aleksandra Laszczynska and Lorna Robbins Celebrating differences: Improving psychological well-being in children and young people living with chronic physical illness – Jennie Robertson, Tara Shea and Louise Rylatt The Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Peer Supported Open Dialogue service: Perspectives from the team – James Osborne, Marcus Colman, Annie Jeffrey, Teresa Barker, Michael Bowley, Rachel Waddingham, Ben Sanders and Catherine Kinane A course within a course: An evaluation of shared learning on a systemic foundation course for clinical psychology trainees and multidisciplinary staff – Catherine Butler and Jo Black Using narratives with children in care to communicate about challenging issues – William Coman, Sinead Dickson, Lynda McGill and Michelle Rainey Mabel’s story – Mabel Advanced brief-strategic therapy with a bulimic client lost in grief and bereavement: Some ideas on how to navigate circuitous therapeutic terrain – Don Boardman Report of the Directors and Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st December 2016 for The Association for Family Therapy Ltd (a Company Limited by Guarantee) Minutes of the 41st AGM of The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, held on 15 September 2016 at The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton from 4pm to 5.15pm Chair’s report Treasurer’s report for the 2017 AGM reporting on the financial year ending December 2016 Liaison and professional development project Project 4 report: Membership and communication AGM reports from committees (from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017) Report from AFT representatives on the Council of the College of Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy (UKCP) Branching out – Northern Ireland AFT news The Grenfell Tower inferno – thoughts and words from an AFT member – Nasima Khanom buy Read (AFT members only)153 | ContentsEditorial – Pat Gray and Gary Robinson Thoughts about systemic practitioners and family therapists – Gary Robinson and Pat Gray Throwing and catching hearts – Lindsey Hampson The tree of life and supervision narratives – Sue Colegrave Childhood obesity – thinking systemically – Hayley Tuffin Therapeutic practices and shame – Mark Evans Coffee and emotions – Gemma Rubio Working in the outdoors using a systemic lens – Paul Andrews Working in uncomfortable positions: Adapting Karl Tomm’s ethical postures for use with care staff in intellectual disability services – Matt Selman and Scott Wall A liturgical framework for systemic family-practice – Chris Heseltine-James Making waves – in whose ocean? – Shaziyah Afzal My experiences of the systemic family-practitioner training (eating disorders strand) at the University of Exeter – Louise Cooper The value of training: CYP IAPT systemic family-practice (eating disorders) – Jo Lauri Resources and restraints in anticipating systemic training – Gary Robinson A service evaluation of the experiences of trainees on the Systemic – Family Practice Child IAPT (Improved Access to Psychological Therapies) programme – Hannah Sherbersky Mothers on the spectrum – Felicity Rosslyn Annie sets up her website Branching out – AFT Cymru AFT news 154 | ContentsEditorial – Lindsey Hampson and Danny McGowan SCORE 15: A tool that just keeps on giving! – Gary Robinson Routine outcome monitoring and clinical supervision: A conversation starter – Danny McGowan Using routine outcome measures to inform practice – Ella Mosby Missing the mark? Outcome measurement of systemic therapy with people with intellectual disabilities – Erica Clayton “Dancing between discourses” and evidencing change in early intervention in psychosis – Helena Rose Feedback and conversational tools: How come? – Rolf Sundet One in a million (and a half). Doing one’s best as an NHS governor – Sigurd Reimers How do we know we are helping? From outcomes to impact – Steve Flatt and Suzi Curtis Routine outcome measures: What would Marx and Foucault say? – Lindsey Hampson and Danny McGowan A systemic formulation of the barriers and facilitators to engaging in routine outcome measures in a child and adolescent mental health service – Lindsey Hampson Remembering how to live – Ken Storey Teaching the systemic use of routine outcome measures – Elaine Farrer and Tom O’Neill Just how effective is systemic therapy? Can SCORE help? – Peter Stratton Feedback-oriented family therapy – Peter Rober, Karine Van Tricht and Rolf Sundet Dialogical supervision in an NHS open-dialogue service – James Osborne, Yasmin Ishaq, Marcus Colman, Ben Sanders and Michael Bowley Exploring new paths: A therapeutic metaphor for taking risks in and outside of therapy – Maddy Sal Minuchin, 1921 – 2017 – Alan Cooklin Branching out – Manchester (MAFT) Nick Child challenges Aspens: Be bold not bashful! AFT news The professional affairs committee’s position statement on AFT systemic practitioner membership |
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