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.
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Back issues
Contents snapshot
Editorial – 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
Contents snapshot
Editorial / 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
Contents snapshot
Editorial – 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
Contents snapshot
Editorial – 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
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Susan Mary Benbow, Eleanor Martin and Sophie Jeffery
Developing cultural humility in work with older people – Liz Curtis and Marion Dixon
Family therapy when a person has dementia – some practical and ethical considerations – Lynda Moore
Pruning the blackberry bush: Reflections on challenging dominant narratives related to dementia – Claire Haddlesey and Jessica Amos
Knitting meanings with semantic dementia – a collaborative consideration of family therapy – Sophie Jeffery, with Jeni and Jayne Webster
Listening for older peoples’ voices in the independent sector: Reflections on a journey from the NHS – Rebecca Corney
When a tremor strikes through the family core: Travelling through unfamiliar landscapes – Dickon Millett and Amy Urry
The journey of facilitating a systemic staff consultation group in an older adult inpatient setting – Jasmeet Kaur Bassi
A peer supervision group reflects on getting older (on occasion of the retirement of one group member) – Susan Mary Benbow, Suzanne Cerfontyne, Gill Goodwillie and Brian Turner
Love and leather in later life – Arlene Vetere and Paul Burton
A catch-up on research and evidence for systemic therapies in later life – Sophie Jeffery
Using coordinated management of meaning to help restore harmony between Walter and his sheltered-housing staff – Emma Fowler
AFT training review summary and background – Shan Tate
Annie shares her experience of EAP work
Hanvey, C. (2019) Shaping Children’s Services. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge – Review by Liz Burns
Dowling, D. (2019) An Independent Practitioner’s Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Playing with Ideas. London: Routledge – Reviewed by Caroline Penney
Two AFT members reflect on their experiences of the Asian Academy of Family Therapy 2019 conference and their experiences in Singapore – Karen Carberry and Maureen Greaves
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – 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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