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

Context overview

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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