Context magazine

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Editorial: Working in primary healthcare settings – Sara Barratt, Helen Halpern and Jack Czauderna

Maintaining a systemic approach in primary care through the pandemic – Rupal Shah, Josephine Sauvage and Sanjiv Ahluwalia

Tales from the surgery: Working together in general practice – Sara Barratt and Mark Brownfield

From family doctor to family therapist – Hilary Graham

Can you be your own grandparent? – Julia Nelki

Brief reflections from a recently retired GP – Dave Tomson

From symptoms to systems: Reflections on the collaboration between systemic family therapy, mental health services and primary care – Kate Jolowicz and Eia Asen

Working in CAMHS whilst managing personal mental health difficulties: The 10.10 appointment – Pooja Bhambra

Traversing the zone of uncertainty and opportunity: A view from secondary care – Kevin Hawkes and Caroline Waugh

ANT PIE – a recipe for inclusion health and equity of access to psychotherapeutic support in primary care in Bradford: Attachment narrative therapy influenced implementation of a psychologically-informed environment – Sarah Faithorn

‘Conversations inviting change’: Systemic and narrative practice for primary care – Lucy Andrews, Sue Elliott, John Launer, Jo Sudell and Richard Walthew

Found in translation: Working with medical teams on Lesvos – James Alster

Sheffield community contact tracers 2020 – 2021 – Jack Czauderna

Suzanne O’Sullivan  (2021) The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness. London: Picador. Reviewed by Sharon Evans

Tributes to Judy Hildebrand – 29/10/1937 to 17/5/2021 – Ellie Kavner, Gwyn Daniel, Lizette Nolte, Jenny Jenkins, Jane Dutton, Arnon Bentovim, Sara Barratt and Charlotte Burck

AFT Conference 2021, in collaboration with Friends of KCC and CMM Institute: Making better social worlds for the 21st century; Legacies and expanding horizons –  23, 24 and 25 September 2021 – Nigel Jacobs

Once upon a time……The healing and transformational power of stories lived and told – Sharon Bond – Written by Rubi Salam-Ahmed

Cosmo Kidz – the larger story – Marit Eikaas Haavimb, Hossein Kaviani and Alastair Pearson – Written by Erica Widdowson

CMM and liberation psychology post George Floyd – Taiwo Afuape – Written by Nina Viljoen

On the importance of (re)claiming M/mystery as part of our deeply-lived experience of being human(e) – Kim Pearce – Written by Judy Rathbone

FKCC film: Stories lived, stories told, living legacies and future dreaming – FKCC film team – Written by Eleanor Anderson

Justice-doing at the intersections of power: Responding to mean and hate-filled necropolitics in community work – Vikki Reynolds – Written by Eleanor Anderson and Mark Chidgey

A new “U” in systemic bereavement: Undigested grief, embodied stories and CMM – Tracey Johnston and Peter Robinson – Written by Marion Dixon

Transforming personal and social narratives for social change – Beth Fisher-Yoshida – Written by Amy Urry

From service delivery to relational collaborative welfare – Jacob Storch – Written by Jo Bownas, Sandra Fortuna and Glenda Fredman

CosmoCouples: One approach to working therapeutically with couples – Barbara McKay – Written by Marion Dixon

Continued professional development policy for family and systemic psychotherapists validated to the UKCP register via AFT – Updated December 2021

Approved supervisors list CPD policy requirements – Updated December 2021

New AFT research officer – Naureen Whittinger

AFT news

Letter to the editor

Report

Context Zoom discussion

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Editorial – Ged Smith

Tributes to Brian Cade (19 August 1942 – 23 February 2021): Context editor 2007 to 2021 – Louise Norris, Ged Smith, Gary Robinson, Alex Millham, Emilia Dowling, Sue Walrond-Skinner, Douglas C Breunlin, David Secrett

Treating the house like a hotel: From simile to metaphor – Brian Cade, with introduction by Yoko Totsuka

Spirituality, religion and family therapy: Competing or complementary worlds? Research into the systemic training of Muslim community leaders – Nadir Khan

Using systemic narrative therapy with a young person in residential care – Lucy Rathbone

Shoes and stones: A human rights perspective on puberty blockers – TK Vincent

A relational stance as part of the supervisory dance: Embodying the position of appreciative ally with novice systemic practitioners – Phil Laing

A reflection on personal and professional development – Rebecca Harvey, Hannah Kenison, Natalie Shoreman and Semra Akan

Receiving NVR – Jack Wilson

Do intercultural couples come from different semantic worlds? Report on a research study funded by the (AFT) David Campbell creative fund – Valentina Lugli, Julia Kalaydjian, Melis Aktas, Sara Lerussi and Reenee Singh

Reading groups: Transformative spaces for our time? – Liz Burns

Working systemically with organisations: Applying systemic concepts to team working – a webinar by Matthew Adam, 14 January 2022 – Reviewed by Kenyah Nyameche

Letter to the government – Rudi Dallos

Branching out: Surrey Association for Family Therapy – Gill Wyse

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Editorial – Pete Brown and Judy Rathbone

Riding the moving carpets of the “borderline personality disorder” world: Contradictions, paradoxes and multiple realities – Amy Urry

Combining eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) and systemic therapy – Peter Callis

Reflections on working systemically with families affected by severe trauma – Arlene Healey

A journey from multiple traumas and abuse, to strength, hope and connection: A survivor’s view of rehabilitation – ‘Buba’ and Gillian Hughes

Developmental trauma: From protection to connection – working towards a ‘secure base’ in the treatment of an adopted adolescent boy – Gonce Ahmet

Hayat Min Damar – towards a collective response to trauma – Hayat Nazer, interviewed by Pete Brown

Living outwith terminal illness – Judy Rathbone and Mariangels Ferrer-Duch

In support of phase-based trauma treatment – Pete Brown

Reflections on working with unaccompanied minors using narrative ideas – Vanessa Yim

Working systemically with adoptive families – Hugh Palmer

Healing the wounds of the past through therapeutic encounters in the present – Sharon Bond

“Stop me if you dare!” – Rory Worthington

The evolution of the application of the witnessing model: A multi-decade perspective – Kaethe Weingarten

Listening for stories of trauma and stories of hope with older people – Polly Kaiser and Daniel Blake

Creative collaboration with families: Finding ways to language the impact of trauma – Jennifer McKinney and Daron Askin

Summary from the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 7-9 April 2022 – Shan Tate

Puberty blockers after Bell v Tavistock: A counter-narrative – Mark Hurst

A rebuttal to Mark Hurst’s counter-narrative – TK Vincent

Meet Shila Rashid, the new course lead on the qualifying masters in systemic psychotherapy (M6) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust – Shila Rashid

Branching out: AFT North East – Laura Lane, with obituary to Sean Tomlinson by Emily Barber

Diversity working party introduction – Parveen Kaur

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Editorial – Carole Payne

On remaining true to our values as we become more senior in public services: Speaking as a ‘late career’ family therapist – Philip Messent

Combining art therapy and systemic family therapy – Lyn Williams, Helen Beach and Natasha Dimaki

Diversity dialogue: A model for practice – Kamala Persaud

Family therapy in an inpatient CAMHS setting: Dilemmas and possibilities – Hugh Palmer

Systemic voice: A reflection of voice entitlement across professional identities – Stacey Wagstaff

Feeling unwanted – Rory Worthington

Mastering pathogenic prose – constructing transformative emotional experiences through dialogue – Padraic Gibson

The spirited child – Ruth Morgan-Jones

Learning and reflections from piloting a systemic supervision family therapy clinic and reflecting team within an adult eating disorder service in London – Nadia Daer, Yang Yang Teh and Stephanie Archer

Using all your colours: A creative online course for professionals working in health and social care settings – Elaine Holliday, Chiara Santin and Jane Pointon

AFT webinar series: More than families: systemic model and working with groups and individuals – a webinar by Francesca Curti-Gialdino and Julie Talvi, 4 March 2022 – Mara de Lacy

Villa Russo. A Jewish Story. Julia Nelki – Reviewed by Gail Simon

Gender and sexuality diversity working group – Sarah Favier and Rosie Buckland

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Editorial – Chana Hughes and Sue Harris

On not being ‘passed over’ – Annette Golker, Liz O’Gorman, Michael Baliousis, Bethany Griffiths, Rubina Singh and John Burnham

Do Jews count after all? A review of David Baddiel’s book ‘Jews Don’t Count’ (2021) – Sylvia Metzer, Sofi Robinson and Viv Sanassy

Working as a systemic insider within the orthodox Jewish community – Jonathan Rabson

‘This is the bread of affliction’: Positioning and being positioned around meanings of oppression – Jonathan Summers

Changing my story of ‘descendant fragility’ – Conny Kerman

21st century Rebbetzin – a bridge to belonging – Chana Hughes

Antisemitism – an exploration through the lens of CMM – Adele Wieder

Diversity within Judaism: Reform and secular perspectives – Sue Harris and Beth Levy

How do we talk or not, about the social graces of religion and spirituality: A Jewish perspective? – Kate Benaim, Amanda Austen and Sana Katan

To be or not to be, that is the binary – Gail Simon

Work with trauma in southern communities in Israel – David Amias

The relationship between parents and adult children: Considering Jewish cultural and lived family values and expectations – Myrna Gower

Who are we now? Who’s asking? What is the question? Fitting in or standing out? We have a choice, or do we? – Gila Hackenbroch and Esther Usiskin Cohen

Pebbles in the Mayyim Hayyim – Shoshana Simons

The diversity working party: Disability/ability group – Fionnuala McKinley and Linda Pow

We would like to hear from you at the professional affairs committee – Adam Lewis

AFT webinar series: Addressing racial trauma in the clinical setting – a webinar by Jamila Holcomb, 5 May 2022 – Sarah Christie

Branching out: AFT Northern Ireland – Margaret Fawcett

Pat Gray Memorial Day conference: Saying hello again to Pat – 24 June 2022 in Bury – Kenyah Nyameche and Pete Harmsworth

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Editorial – Jenny Altschuler and Sarah Helps

Drawing on personal experiences when working with babies and their families: Translucent practice in a neonatal intensive care unit – Sarah Helps

Dancing into a solution-focused model in paediatric diabetes: From counting the steps to finding our rhythm – Sophie Burgess and Ellie James-Gibbs

Reflection shouldn’t be a luxury: A paediatric systemic special interest group discusses a paper on co-parenting – Angela Shanly

Incorporating solution-focused brief practice into occupational therapy for musculoskeletal health – as simple as falling off a horse! An interview with Alexandra Ashida – Matt Selman and Alex Ashida

Meeting the entire older person: Systemic working with elders and physical frailty – Harry Leitch and Eleanor Martin

Death: Personal and professional stories – Moyosore Olorunoje

A long-COVID survivor experience and systemic psychotherapy – Frances E Courtney

A letter from long-COVID province – David Pocock

Being present: Change is difficult. Change requires loss. Loss is hard to see and harder to accept – Carmel Sher

Reflections on the supervision of healthcare professions: Stories of loss, pain and inspiration – Jenny Altschuler

European Family Therapy Association: Journal editors’ round table event – Liz Forbat

European Family Therapy Association congress: Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2022 – Shan Tate and Ged Smith

Branching out: West Yorkshire AFT. A story of continued and continuing development – have we reached adulthood now?! – Bernadette Ruttle and Carole Hunt

Introducing the diversity working party group for ‘Race’ – Amell El Guenuni, Calvin Malcolm, Jan Lampard, Jennifer Achan, Jill Morgan, John Burnham, Maria Joy, Noah Solarin, Prudencia Woode and Shakira Maknoon

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