Context magazine
In this edition
Editorial
Editorial – Mark Chidgey and Jo George
Feature articles
Kinship and community: Harnessing the power of family group conferencing for children in care – Alexandra Benyon
Heart and hope: The meaning of home for children and young people in foster care – Andrea Warman
Holding onto hope, talking and being with heart. Towards building home: Centring narratives of gain and moving away from narratives of loss – Shakila Emmanuel and Anees Fatima Hakim
From herd to community: How horses inspire hopeful journeys in residential childcare – Deborah Judge
Exploring art-making in therapeutic group work with unaccompanied, asylum-seeking, young men – Lucy Gorell Barnes
Complex caring systems: Systemic work within residential childcare – Abi Jordan and Samantha Hogan
Having to be systemic to survive: Personal and professional stories of being in care – a conversation – Susan Crawford and Mark Chidgey
Be-longing – Emma Palmer
The sleeping giant: Working systemically with sleep issues – Christy Reynolds
Reports and reviews
EFTA-NFTO Norway: Family therapy and systemic practice in Norway – Lennart Lorås
Looking back and forwards – Gillian Petrie
Association news
About Context
Context is the Association for Family and Systemic Psychotherapy (AFSP)’s well-respected bi-monthly magazine. It’s a valued, accessible, user-friendly resource and forum for qualified family and systemic psychotherapists, students and other health professionals interested in systemic practice.
The magazine is packed with news and views on the issues that matter to professionals working with families, adults and children in a therapeutic environment. A space to share and stimulate therapeutic ideas, it features the latest events, publications, training, conferences and workshops.
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Back issues
Contents snapshot
Editorial: Effects of acquired brain injury on the child, the family and the wider system – Sarah Helps
Systemic thinking and neuropsychological assessment following childhood stroke related to sickle-cell disease – Ruth Erskine
Adapted narrative therapy for children with severe traumatic brain injury – Alison Perkins
Why a child’s brain injury is a family affair – Sarah Helps
“Think family”: A staff consultation service set up within a rehabilitation centre for children with an acquired brain injury – Rachel Ames & Cath Jones
Rewriting the story of childhood brain injury: How systemic and narrative approaches help – Katie Byard & Sophie Gosling
‘Seeing is believing’ – Sara Pearlman, Fiona Seth-Smith, Madelon Treneman & Carry Gorney
Manoeuvring in multiplicity: Widening the context through developing a systemic family therapy service embedded within an adult community-mental-health service – Stella Collis, Jo Hadfield & Emma Hartley
AFT Annual Conference 2012
The national conference as a tribal event – Sigurd Reimers
AFT National Conference workshop reports
Research update: A family therapy hope for NICE – Peter Stratton
What to look out for in the Journal of Family Therapy in 2013 – Mark Rivett
Theresa Hendra, 1956 – 2012: “A much respected and well loved member of our Association” – Sue Jones, chair, AFT
AFT CYP-IAPT conference, Birmingham, 6 December 2012 – Cameron Anderson
CYP-IAPT family therapy – David C. Low
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies for Children and Young People (CYP-IAPT) – AFT position statement – Update by Sue Jones and Judith Lask
Aspens noticeboard – Nick Child
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – a passion for action – Chip Chimera
“I’ll be the coat hook and you be the mother” – improvisation, action and drama in systemic practice: Approach, method and technique – John Burnham and Kerri Newns
Internalised-other interviewing, inclusion and the avowal of psychological reality: An anti-disablement action method – Mark Haydon-Laurelut
Performative understandings in family therapy: From hypothesising to sensing similarities – John Shotter (in collaboration with Jim Wilson)
“I did not realise that a young tree could have wounds” – Jocelyn Avigad, Lourdes Berdasco, Anne Elton, Jane Fisher, Bitenge Makuka & Zohreh Rahimi
Our use of action techniques in att achment narrative therapy – Arlene Vetere and Rudi Dallos
Sand, see and sound: Action-based techniques – Patrick Belas and Mags Josephs
Getting our mojo workin’ – the magic of action-methods therapy through a neuroscience looking glass – Chip Chimera
Using reflecting role-plays in reflecting teams – Pete Brown
Family sculpting – Brian Cade
Rediscovering spontaneity – Martin Gill and Hannah Sherbersky
A hidden history of action in family therapy – Chip Chimera
Delivering an autism spectrum disorder post-diagnosis workshop in Urdu – Emma Hartwell, Zaibunnisha Patel, Sukhjinder Dheraj and Jonathan Espie
Dowling, D. & Elliott , D. (2012) Understanding Children’s Needs When Parents Separate. Milton Keynes: Speechmark Publishing. Reviewed by Myrna Gower
Research update: An academic and research lucky dip – Peter Stratton
Letter to the editor: Where are we now? – Pieter W Nel
Systemic thinking and Shakespeare’s tragedies. Presenter: Gwyn Daniel. Reviewed by Sue Fyvel
AFT news
Guidance notes and frequently asked questions for those seeking UKCP registration – AFT registration committee
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Stuart Delve
When the political became personal – Jessica Betts
Retirement blues without the blues? John Hills
Systemic family kayaking on the tidal Thames – Jonty Perchard
Adoptive families: Unintended consequences and restricted choices – Chris Burroughes
Systemic therapy and adult mental health – a perspective on therapy and service delivery – Colm O’Keefe
Non-diagnostic practice – Sami Timimi
From hostile to host-ing: My journey into the evidence-based meme – Stephen Callaghan
The ground beneath my feet … – Joady Brennan
Embodiment conference – Mary Spence
Reflections on being a learning disability child-and-adolescent-mental-health family therapy team: The first three years – Miranda Wrigley and Bob Budd
Connie, E. (2013) Solution Building in Couples Therapy. New York: Springer Publishing. Reviewed by Kate Daniels.
Hills, J. (2013) Introduction to Systemic and Family Therapy: A User’s Guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Four reviews.
Introducing emotionally-focused therapy in Scotland: Gail Palmer – Conference report by Nick Child
Research update: Doctor, I keep getting fantasies of doing research – Peter Stratton with contributions from Liz Forbat, Jan Parker, Gill Goodwillie, Lynne McCandless, Dawn Luff and Sara Meddings
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Brian Cade
Part 1: Visiting Gogos in South Africa – Sue McNab and Bebe Speed
Part 2: Reflection – Sue McNab and Bebe Speed
Couples therapy: Emotionally-focused and mindfulness-based – Marcus Averbeck
How might a systemic psychotherapy be evaluated? – Sim Roy-Chowdhury
Exploring gang violence in young women’s lives: The ‘context and discourse map’ – Inés Valero Rivas
From “passengers to navigators”: Shared journey in creative work with a family in crisis – Lumi Henshaw and Prabashny Pillay
Bereavement support for vulnerable children and families – Louise Walker
The Aspens goes DAFT conference
A changing world of accountabilities: News from the ethics committee of an important new context for AFT members
Rules of conduct for members: Policy document
Procedures for managing breaches of the rules of conduct for members: Policy document
Research update: Academic and research development stocktaking – Peter Stratton
AFT news
Why register as a systemic supervisor? – Judith Lask
AGM reports
Financial reports
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Ged Smith
The social construction of familial masculinities: Creating a context for change through an exploration of masculinities – Matthew Adam
Reflections on ‘Masculinities’ ten years on – Liz Burns
Working with men who have experienced childhood family violence – Penny Priest
The disempowerment of men: The elephant in the consulting room – Jeremy Young
Is masculinity still in crisis in 2013? Michael Day
Narr-anthropology – Sarah Walther
Working with men in systemic therapy: Challenging masculinities – Ged Smith
Masculinities today – John Rowan
How to make a man – Moritz, Maurice and me – David Pocock
Research update: Goodbye – Peter Stratton
Aspens noticeboard – Susan Mary Benbow
AFT news
Diversity and monitoring – Victoria Sharman
Contents snapshot
Editorial: Don’t mention the war – personal experiences beneath the gaze of the system – John Hills
“My leaving speech – 4th July 2013” – Stuart Delve
No way to run a railroad: Dirty tricks and dodgy deals in tendering for addictions services. How the ideal of ‘partnership’ is undermined by the ideology of competition – Trevor McCarthy
The Tour de NICE and the art of deception – Penny Priest
Returning the gaze: Complaining about the NHS – Tony Hamlin
The pyramid: An unsuitable shape for treatment agencies (a brief polemic) – Brian Cade
Examining ‘the gaze’ and its story – John Hills
Returning the response: Some snapshot gazes from ‘managing Mr Angry’ – David Steare
Beneath the ‘medical gaze’: Burden or burdened? Tanisha Curthan
Losing the gaze: An unnecessary tragedy? Maria Nichterlein
Returning the gaze – a family observed: Preparing to see and be seen – Claire Ramsay
Immortality – Chris Burroughes
An ethics problem
Diversity and remembering
Letter to the editor
AFT news
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