Context magazine

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Editorial – Nick Pendry

Stronger families, safer children – Alison Noble and Paula Newsome

Developing social work using systemic ideas – managing risk differently – Sam Howlett

“Have you got a minute?” – recognising the pressures of time in a safeguarding context – Karen Schiltroth

Can you be ‘systemic’ in a social work crisis? Liz Bosanquet

Safety, production and back again: A recursive relationship between social work and systemic practice – Sarah Favier

Systemic positioning within social care: Making the most of Munro – Mark Chidgey and Helen Mahaffey

Systemic landscapes for thinking and acting in inter-agency meetings – Barbara McKay

When social workers do the right thing: A whole cloud of philosophy condensed into a drop of grammar – Richard McKenny

Uncovering the invisible wounds of socio-cultural trauma in working with oppressed children and families – Kenneth Hardy

Simon, G. & Chard, A. (eds.) (2014) Systemic Inquiry; Innovations in reflexive Practice Research. London: Everything is Connected Press. Reviewed by Ged Smith

AFT Annual Conference 2014: Irrevence – (Dis)respect, freedoms, loyalty, ethics & survival. In association with Merseyside AFT.

The Family Institute honours Philippa Seligman; founding member of AFT

AFT news

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Editorial – Kevin Hawkes, Val Jackson and Alex Reed

Open dialogues with clients with mental health problems and their families – Jaakko Seikkula

Open dialogue – a family perspective – Jen Kilyon

On being dialogical: An ethics of ‘attunement’ – John Shotter

An illuminated bridge to open dialogue in the fog of life – Ray Middleton

Getting on with it: The Early Network Response trial in Leeds – Val Jackson

Open dialogue in Somerset? Frank Burbach, Chris Sheldrake and Estelle Rapsey

Becoming dialogical in Nottingham – Corrine Hendy, Diane Wright, Linda Sunderland and James Shutt

Braiding hopes and intentions with people affected by intellectual disabilities and their networks of family and carers – Glenda Fredman and Henrik Lynggaard

Early contact family meetings in psychiatric services – Kevin Hawkes and Alex Reed

Peer-supported open dialogue – Mark Hopfenbeck

Getting ‘withness’– thinking through theatrical improvisation – Matt Selman

What constitutes an open-dialogue training? Education, education, education – Nick Putman

Breakthrough moments: Open dialogue in the Ridiculusmus play, “The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland” – David Woods

Combining the use of open dialogue with narrative therapy – Hugh Fox

Widening the dialogue: Psychoanalysis and open dialogue – Brian Martindale

Mindfulness and open dialogue: A common foundation and a common practice – Russell Razzaque

Montagu, R. (2014) A Humour of Love: A Memoir. London: Quartet Books – Reviewed by Alasdair Macdonald

Imelda McCarthy, Friends of KCC workshop: A day of retreat in the fifth province, 7 November 2014 – Mary Spence

Conference report: Parental alienation, October 2014, London – Nick Child and David Secrett

Memories of Luigi Boscolo (1932-2015) – Paolo Bertrando and Brian Cade

Interactions – news and updates from AFT project 4 – Karen Holford

Reflections on Clare Margaret Hawks, 1957-2014

AFT news

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Editorial – Yoko Totsuka

Working as an expert witness within the family courts – the performance of giving evidence – Sarah Helps

So what about the children? Offender deportation and systemic social-work expertise – Alastair Pearson

Well-judged interventions? Sue Hickman

Under pressure: A child psychotherapist’s perspective on parenting assessments – Beverley Tydeman

A six-step invariant consultation model: Helping family workers have new ideas for going forward – Percy Aggett

Live supervision and the ‘team without the screen’: A home-based approach to training social workers in systemic practice – Jenny Summer

‘There is no room in CAMHS for providing intervention without an evidence base’: The case against – Bernadette Wren

One step at a time: Talking about strength-based approaches – Yoko Totsuka

The AFT project diaries:

• AFT project 4 – developing the membership – Karen Holford
• AFT project 1 – developing the profession – Tessa Jones

Honorary doctorate for Peter Lang – Sharn Tomlinson and Miriam Richardson

AFT news

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Editorial – Brian Cade

Family therapy, the third wave and the day-to-day work of an outreach worker – Stefania Angela Parks

Reflections on the introduction of a loving-kindness orientation in an NHS CAMHS family therapy clinic – Jane Wilson

The declaration of interdependence: Remaking supervision – Paul Hackett

A leopard changing its spots, an old dog learning new tricks: Advanced brief-strategic therapy with a septuagenarian – Don Boardman

A window of hope: Capturing the ethos of a third sector well-being group from the perspective of a group facilitator – Julia Evans

Speaking as a listener: The dialogical word – Tanisha Curthan

Therapeutic space and the creation of meaning – Blanche Douglas

‘Culture’ in child mental health assessment – Begum Maitra and Muffazal Rawala

Course feedback in family therapy training as a transformative dialogue: Creating a context for reflexive learning – Gail Bradbury

AFT 40th Anniversary Conference, 16 – 17 April 2015, Durham: Daring to be Different – a time to remember, looking back to the future

Minutes of the 39th AGM of The Association For Family Therapy and Systemic Practice held on 18 September 2014 at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool

Report of the Directors and Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st December 2014 for The Association for Family Therapy Ltd (a Company Limited by Guarantee)

2015 annual reports

AFT news

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Editorial – Pat Gray

Culturally grounded therapy in the Palestinian context: Lessons learned by an African American therapist – Makungu Akinyela

Inspiration – Alison Herbert

The Noahgram – part 2 – Noah Solarin

Can the over-intellectualisation of racism within the context of the GRRAACCEESS be its downfall and that of the therapeutic community as a whole? – Calvin Malcolm

Placing black children with white carers: Does it matter? – Brenda O’Loughlin

Journeying self: Back to the future. Dedicated to my father, Md. Mosaddar Khan – Nasima Khanom

Reflection on self-identity and working with difference – Charity Tawodzera

Making visible the invisible – Parveen Kaur

Systemic film evenings – Noah Solarin, Lucy Cavanagh, Annette Barrett, Nasima Khanom and Liz Day

Whose family name? – Yvonne Ayo

A dolly like me – Kenyah Nyameche

Aspens noticeboard

AFT news

AFT Code of Ethics and Practice

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Editorial – Ged Smith

The art of neglecting children: Passing the responsibility back – Brian Cade

Avoiding a complaint – is it good enough? Do we need a practical and useable framework for positive ethics? – Chris Burroughes

Using systemically-informed consultation in a residential older- adult care home to understand repeat referrals made to a community mental health team – Tim Clarke, Tal Moore, Dave Bennett, Julia Weatherley and Constantina Markides

PDQ-4, a diagnostic tool used in the individual systemic therapy of a patient with panic disorder: A case study – Dimitra Siousioura

Panic attacks: Some stories – Brian Cade

A multi-family workshop with donor-conceived teenagers and parents – Roni Pea, Lorna Brunstein and Nessa O’Mahony

Clinical psychology, power and position: A reflection at resignation – Chrissie Blackburn

“What are your best hopes?” Some developments in solution-focused brief therapy – Chris Iveson

Generations – a short story – Ged Smith

Simulating families: Building confidence and skills in working with families and networks – Christopher Kowalski, Isabelle Ekdawi, Claire Parry and Sabrina Phillips

Through the haziness of what is systemic: A critical self-reflexive question – Chiara Santin

Delivering the tree of life group as a pre-therapy intervention for clients from black and minority ethnic backgrounds experiencing first-episode psychosis – Chanelle Myrie and Louisa Codjoe

Branch reports: Annual reports from AFT branches

Mandy … a conversation – Christine Stupples and Ros Jackson

Life Appreciation for Brendan Flynn: 1958 – 2015 – John Hills

1st Systemic Postgraduate Research Conference – Karen Carberry and Maureen Taylor

Overcoming problems – creating possibilities through…wrestling with restraints and embracing resources in therapy and supervision – Report by Beryl Sanderson on workshop by John Burnham

AFT news