Context magazine

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Too 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

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AMHS 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

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Just 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

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Editorial – 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

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Editorial – 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

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Editorial: 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