Context magazine

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Editorial: Emotion as a systemic issue – David Pocock

“I feel, therefore……”: Being there in systemic psychotherapy practice – Britt Krause

Emotions, attachments and systems – Rudi Dallos and Arlene Vetere

Home, emotion and deep subjectivity – Jeremy Woodcock

Emotions – in need of a supplementary language – Vigdis Wie Torsteinsson and Rolf Sundet

Emotional positioning and the therapeutic process – Paolo Bertrando

Emotional trauma in the system: A role for EMDR – Mary Roddick

Using energy psychology – Heather Redington

An interactional look at humour in therapy – Brian Cade

Understanding the self and understanding therapy: An attachment perspective – Una McCluskey

AFT national conference, Cambridge, September 2009: “Families  first – family therapy in and beyond the consulting room”

Research update: Research for family therapists – Peter Stratton

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Editorial – Yoko Totsuka and Enid Colmer

Depressed women talking about mothering – Susan Wagstaff

“Then Mum got taken into hospital”: Young people’s experience of  parents’ admission to psychiatric hospital – Yoko Totsuka

Addressing mental health legacies: Learning from research – Enid Colmer

The house on Glenwood Street: “I keep it in the family” – Carlos J. Sanchez

Lost his father to suicide: The survival testimony of a young man – Razi  Shachar

I can tell you a thing or two about parental mental health – Sonja Upton

Grandparents looking after grandchildren – between a rock and a hard place – Gwen Sandfield and Michael Göpfert

West Barnet Family Work Service: An adult mental health training and clinical provision project – Lorraine Davies-Smith, Anne Whelan and Rachel Gibson

Working in a CAMHS setting with families where both an adult and a child have a diagnosis – Annette Wetherell and Trish Huitson

Crossing the bridge: To dip our toes in the water? Learning to take tentative steps towards setting up and delivering a service for adults within a children’s voluntary organisation – Leah Salter and Billy Hardy

Reflections on my work with depressed parents and their babies – Carolyn Ramsamy

Parental mental ill health: What informs good practice? – Michael Göpfert, Nora McClelland, James Wilson

New narratives for parents with mental health difficulties – Ruth Pluznick and Natasha Kis-Sines

Engaging with agency cultures in parental mental illness training – Gwyn Daniel and Jasmine Chin            

New perspectives in working with parental mental health – Elan Hoffman

“If we value our children, we must cherish their parents” – David Bailey

The dance of attempting to break down barriers: Working with children and families where a parent is experiencing mental health difficulties – Karen Daniel

Making Links: The reality of a CAMHS and adult mental health venture – Shan Tate, Kate Perry, Amanda Fox & Shane Matthews

To come to reasonable terms with one’s own history: Children, parents and mental health – David Denborough

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Editorial – Ged Smith

Reflections on the set-up and practice of a new CAMHS primary mental health worker service – Lumi Henshaw & Emma Harries

Language and family therapy:  Some brief notes on practice – Ged Smith

Talking without fear: A therapeutic programme for mothers and children who have experienced domestic violence – Shadi Shahnavaz

Families and the professional network revisited – Peter Hardwick

The application of the ‘tree of life’ to an individual psychological intervention – Ella Cullen

Opinion: The systematic deconstruction of Mum and Dad – Shelagh Wright

Perspectives: A case study from the perspective of the therapist then reviewed by the client and co-worker – Annette Mac Artain-Kerr

A difference that is making a difference: The Tayside post-trauma therapy team – a truly systemic initiative offering therapy for families delivered by therapists from child and adult services – Alastair Hull, Bill Ness and Helen Smith

Riding a bike with the brakes on:  A new family therapy team reflect on working in a medium secure unit through an interview with Elsa Jones – John Doran, Andrea Davies and James Godfrey

‘Changing things without changing things too much’: The challenges of bringing a new project into an existing system – Matthew Lister

The power of the genogram – Matthew Adam

Working with marginalised families: “Can you do that without breaking too many eggs?” – Carlos J. Sanchez

Reflections on PPD in the third age – Liz Burns

Book review: Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View, by Liz Burns (2009), Karnac – Ruth Reay

The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session – A book review and interview with Brad Keeney – Alex Millham

Research is political. So is politics – Peter Stratton

AFT news

On the making of a training DVD about the cultural genogram – Wilma C. Mangabeira

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Debating truth, error and distortion in systemic psychotherapy: A contribution from the DMM – David Pocock

Attachment and systems theory: Does the concept of triangulation offer a useful bridge? – Rudi Dallos

Hearing and listening – Zoe Deligiannis

An interview with Pat Crittenden – Chip Chimera

In love and addiction – Amy Rose

Dear Johnnie – AM Toase

The potential of systemic practice: A huge army of great workers – Nick Child

Working with families in the context of inpatient settings – Introduced by John Burnham

A parent in the team – reflections on involving a parent in a workshop at the annual ‘Working with families in the context of inpatient settings’ conference, Birmingham, December 2009 – Verena Csejtei, David Kingsley, Lindsey Cree, Jan Ellingworth, Miranda Casswell, Ingrid Myhr and Cara Livingstone

Establishing family inclusive inpatient mental health services in Somerset – Roger Stanbridge and Frank Burbach

Dynamics and dilemmas in working with families in an inpatient CAMH service – Vivienne Gross and Jon Goldin

Us, them, you, me …. we – Julie Barber

Space talks – Anne-Marie Schuller

Considering the family in substance misuse treatment – Christine Senediak

The home-based model of family intervention in early psychosis – Val Jackson and Anjula Gupta

Systemic therapy within Family Support & Intervention – Claire Sammut

Working in partnership – Newbridge Learning Community and Wigan CAMHS – Michelle Alty, Denise McCarthy and Danny McGowan

Why family therapists and family law solicitors should no longer be inhabiting parallel universes – Richard Gregorian

Laying down the law in family therapy: An invitation for more discussion with our legal colleagues – Chip Chimera

Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy – a book review through a discussion – Peter Stratton, Ali McLewin and John Hills

Researching what systemic psychotherapists can do – Peter Stratton

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Transgressive lives/transgressive practices – Gwyn Whitfield and Gail Simon

Ripples across the pond – Shoshana Simons

Just when you thought it might be safe to go back in the water… Becoming queer and what I did afterwards… – Carter Portch

Fluid and imperfect ally positioning: Some gifts of queer theory – Vikki Reynolds

Down to the wire……. – Gail Simon

A traumatic intrusion with transgressive possibilities: Power as a relational and discursive phenomenon – Imelda McCarthy

Encountering the unique otherness of the other: Exploring inner landscapes of feeling – John Shotter

Working with trans youth and their families: Personal and professional reflections – Alex Iantaffi

The therapist’s tale – Helen Böhme

Finding ways of going on with LBTQ women’s health inequalities – Tanisha Curthan

Comfortable, not numb – Hugh Palmer & Sam Palmer

Heterosexual – the ‘normal’ delusion – Catherine Butler

Remembering KCC – Gill Goodwillie

A tribute to the Kensington Consultation Centre (KCC) – John Burnham

Reseeeaaarrrch! – Gail Simon

Relate Institute Research Symposium – Gloria Flynn-Piercy

Research update: Partial answers to interesting questions – Peter Stratton

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Training in a Woman’s Voice:

Making the exotic ordinary – Sharon Bond

The fifth province: Imagining a space of dialogical co-creations! – Imelda McCarthy

Retrospective reflections on “training in a woman’s voice” workshops – Iona Cook

Unlocking anorexia: Finding keys through dialogue – Nicola McCarry

Kensington Consultation Centre:

Unfinished business: A retrospective on dilemmas of abrupt endings in clinical work – Nina Gotua and Claudia Forero

Sowing the seeds of KCC in Sweden! – Miyabi Watanabe interviews Kicki Oljemark

A bundle of treasures for a wandering therapist: An exploration of personal and professional resources to sustain a therapist on a systemic journey – Karen Partridge

Systemic practice: “Getting out there” – Helen Mahaffey and Mark Chidgey

Resilience, community, hope: Using the tree of life approach for building positive futures – Jo Bownas

Kensington Consultation Centre (KCC). A celebration? – Raymond (Dick) Docking

A new initiative in child and family counselling: Dorset child and family counselling trust – Robert Montagu and Alasdair J Macdonald

Keeping up with the Joneses while being unpopular: News from the editor of the Journal of Family Therapy – Mark Rivett

Using literature to bridge audience and graduates in a graduation ceremony context – Douglas C Breunlin

Research update: Realistic research positioning for family therapists – Peter Stratton