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2019 Context issues
161 | ContentsEditorial – Pete Brown Passing ‘The Hug’: A therapeutically playful group-technique to improve relationships and self-esteem – Michelle Newman Brown Genograms at the kitchen table – tea, teabags and sugar cubes: Playfully working with genograms and timelines with families in transition – Sabine Vermeire Old and new creative tools when working with children, young people and families – Sarah Coles and Shona Reed-Purvis In Your Corner: Using psychologically-informed boxing groups to reach young people – Kathy Adcock Reaching for the stars: To boldly go where no astronomy projects have gone before – Sheila Kanani and Sherell Salmon Working therapeutically in the Goldilocks zone – Pete Brown Dogs don’t wear clothes – Rose Maxwell Building on a fragile foundation: How art psychotherapy interventions help to unlock the inner strength of a family – Esther van Egmond “We are always becoming”: Using the migration of identity model with substance-using adolescents – Luci Hammond Internalised other interviewing: Having fun in family therapy – Mark Dumbrill Finding our feet: Safe uncertainty as newly qualified clinical psychologists – Kyla Evans, Colin Murphy and Siobhan Jones Working creatively with resistance in the neurodevelopmental family therapy clinic – Melissa Baxter, Nimisha Tanna and Esther Donkor Palmer, H. (2018) The Heart of the Matter: Music and Art in Family Therapy. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge – Shona Reed-Purvis The FUN Multi-group Family Therapy project – Chiara Santin American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy conference, 2018 – Shan Tate Branch reflections on AFT conference 2018 Branching out: Hampshire Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (HAFT) AFT Code of Ethics and Practice for members as of January 2019 AFT news 162 | ContentsEditorial / Golygyddol – Billy Hardy, Kieran Vivian-Byrne and Leah Salter, with translation by Ann Jones How to build a foundation for a career in family therapy: The Family Institute years – Douglas C. Breunlin Talking legacies in Wales: A conversation with Elaine Simpson, family therapist and service manager, Action for Children – Leah Salter A journey on the Celtic margin – Jim Wilson Recollections – David Epston Qualifying training at the Family Institute: The knotty coherence of the MSc – Mary Morris Decentred but highly influential – John Burnham Humanising our practice – Sheila McNamee How the personal informs the professional: An experiential journey – Shane Smith Three decades of resistance: A conversation with Jeff Faris of The Family Institute – Leah Salter Systemic counselling – towards systemic mindedness – Kieran Vivian-Byrne The analysis of the request as the main door to interventions – Umberta Telfener The Family Institute – 11 years of transformation – Michele Ryan Crossing borders and crashing gates – a reflexive first-person account of the 2018 AFT annual conference – Vicci Langdon Letters from home: Hopes, fears and relationships towards the end of the Second World War – Barry Mason A special place in my heart: A thank you from a graduate – Jill Lubienski Moments of transformation, creative edges and collaborative practice – with, within and between – Kieran Vivian-Byrne and Billy Hardy Renewing systemic practice, from Milan to dialogues: An exercise in irreverence – Paolo Bertrando An bean gheal: The bright woman. Festschrift for Imelda McCarthy – 8 December 2018 – Miriam Richardson NICE update: AFT and NICE consultations – a year in retrospect – Laura Sanger AFT news Letter of reply 163 | ContentsEditorial – Sarah Coles and Sarah Helps Editorial – part 2 – Brian Cade Performing clinical psychology and systemic selves: Negotiating similarities and differences – Manus Moynihan Both-and or neither-nor? The ‘shifting sands’ of training as a clinical psychologist and systemic practitioner – Eleanor Chatburn and Sarah Densham Multiple professional identities – who am I? – Sarah Coles What happens in systemically informed practice? Talking with Henry and his parents – Sarah Helps From relative to researcher – Pooja Bhambra More than a ‘tapestry of fragments’ – working with Aboriginal Australians – Ruth Crowley Brown Hidden in plain sight: Unravelling human trafficking myths to uncover the victims – Tamara Barnett Radicalisation or exploitation? Working systemically in the National Health Service with “religiously radicalised youth” – Nasif Nijabat A systemic case report – Charlotte Clark Supervision for non-violent resistance: Raising practitioner presence – Luke Cousins What’s on YouTube? – Steve Littlewood The International Family Therapy Association world congress, Aberdeen, March 2019 – Shan Tate Branching out: AFT Scotland – Eoin Power, Sam Petrie and Sarah Eldrid Interviewing family therapists at the World Family Therapy Congress, organised by the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA), held in Aberdeen, March 28-30 2019 – Deni Gordon-Jackson, Charlotte Chiu and Sarah Eldrid AFT news Family and Systemic Psychotherapy – information sheet
164 | ContentsEditorial – Lizette Nolte The politics of practice and the state we are in – Jim Wilson Towards systemic praxis for social change: The politics of practice and practices of hope – Jan Parker Privilege and struggle: A personal journey towards anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice – Pieter W Nel “The ‘us’ and ‘them’ situation… it’s been a humanitarian failing since the oldest time”: When one’s very sense of self is a political matter – Victoria Cantons and Lizette Nolte Making an art of failure: ‘These are not ordinary lives’ – Hamilton Kennedy ‘Going out towards Hackney by coach for the ayre’: Walking and talking together – Jacqui Henry, Bruce Edwards, Anita Finch, Stephanie Monteilh, Jessica Muir and Angela Byrne Reflections on the value of trauma-informed care in a refugee-camp setting in Greece – Jacqui Scott, Lotus Warren, Alex Sonkin and Batseba Asefaw The professional, political and personal self: A faith-based indigenous psychology service in the context of disaster and loss, grief and trauma work. Grenfell Tower Fire, 14 June 2017 – Nasima Khanom Political PIEs: Learning from frontline housing services – Rachel Brown, Coral Westaway and Clare Watson Triumph in the face of adversity – Anonymous Providing a humanising service for our dehumanised clients – Jessica Saffer The Zone of Fabulousness: Resisting vicarious trauma with connection, collective care and justice-doing in ways that centre the people we work alongside – Vikki Reynolds Holding onto hope in the midst of austerity: A staff response to serial cuts and restructuring of a CAMHS – Elizabeth Boyd Supporting people with intellectual disability and autism – resisting burnout and preventing sleepwalking: A conversation between systemically minded psychologists – Nina Viljoen, Helen Ellis-Caird, Louisa Rhodes and Annabel Head Navigating turbulent waters with hope to co-create islands of safety – Afrah Abdullahi, Sureya Ali, Lauren Canvin, Kim Coulson and Shirin Mustafa “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”: Palestinian families under occupation – Gwyn Daniel Report of the Directors and Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2018 for The Association for Family Therapy (a Company Limited by Guarantee) 44th AGM agenda Minutes of the 43rd AGM of The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice Report from the chair CEO report Treasurer’s report for the 2019 AGM reporting on the financial year ending December 2018 Reports from the chairs of AFT committees AFT branch reports AFT news buy Read (AFT members only) 165 | Contents166 | ContentsEditorial – Ged Smith Engaging with our curiosities: Exploring and evaluating reflecting processes to develop clinical practice – Emma Irwin, Matthew Selman, Mair Thomas and Catriona Gray Brexit – regaining the sense of security – Szymon Chrzastowski ‘I hear dead people’: Attending to the voice of the departed – Roland Glover Managing the building blocks of my life; Tommy’s therapy – Michelle Newman Brown Creating meaning in the third wheel of learning: Celebrating systemic social work with gestures of relational artistry – James Owen, Tim Fisher, Sarah Browne and Charlotte Williams BBC Three programme – 2019 – Arinola and Hannah Sherbersky A whole context scenario approach to reduce cyberbullying – Sue Robinson Researching the muscle dream experience through a series of invitations: Dialogues, connection and change – James Randall, David Wellsted and Lizette Nolte The centrality of playfulness and expression in trust-building and meaning-making with at-risk children and youth in psychotherapy – Blake Griffin Edwards European Family Therapy Association conference Naples: 11-14 September 2019 – Shan Tate and Ged Smith Nightmares and trauma: From narrative to embodied reprocessing – Dzmitry Karpuk, Tom Stoneham and Robert Davies Annie thinks about ways of staying connected and maintaining confidence Branching out: Shining a light on AFT NE – the North East branch of the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice UKCP registration and CPD AFT news |
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