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.
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Back issues
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Brian Cade
Family therapy and improvisation – awareness and adapting to alternatives when two fields mix – Matt Selman and Shawn Kinley
The Boys Baking Club: Embracing creativity to explore emotions in boys who have a learning disability – Peter Jones, Gemma Worthington and Laura Graham
Learning with and from each other: A patchwork process – Fiona Kennon
The personal is political: The political is personal – Mary Morris
Insights from inside: Working systemically with high risk prisoners with signs of emerging personality disorders – Patrick Kuhn
Inviting the outside in: Working systemically in a therapeutic residential setting – John Agudelo
Viva voce – the trainee-supervisor voice – collaborative examination? The Tavistock Centre experience – Sara Barratt, Laura Glendinning and Gillian Hughes
A diagram for family-of-origin conversations – Danny McGowan and Sarah Wolfe
Foundations – Michelle McLaughlin
Reflections on the 2016 AFT conference, Brighton: Making Waves: Diverse Conversations by the Sea – Tanya Smart
Comments on the 2016 AFT conference, Brighton: A short story – Chiara Santin
Ged Smith workshop – Language, risks and relationships in the art of therapy: Becoming a therapist – Mark Hurst
Annie struggles with contracts
AFT news
Become a systemic practitioner member of AFT
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Marilyn Brennan and Jeanne Ziminski
Dialogical dramatics: Role-play with professional actors in family therapy training – Matt Selman
Family interventions for adults: A learning journey for students and tutors – Tanya Smart
Facilitating the development of self-reflexivity with first and second year trainees – Marilyn Brennan and Cathy Taylor
Moving with the times: Responsive training for changing professional contexts – Barbara McKay
The experience of intermediate training in family therapy – Masuma Rahim
A pathway through the landscape of theory – Jeanne Ziminski
Taking a chance – reclaiming social work practice the Scottish way – Fiona Crombie
Community networks for family care – Delroy Powell and Annie Turner
A journey to becoming independent – Sharon Bond
Video review and CYP IAPT systemic family practice training – Tom O’Neill and Gary Robinson
Planting little acorns and such!! Gerry Cunningham and Donal McAteer
A day in the life of a CRED panellist: Have case, will travel! Gill Wyse
Wake up! Wake up! Where have all the family therapists gone? Billy Hardy
I, Daniel Blake (2016) British/French film, directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty. Starring Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan and Briana Shann. Review by Liz Burns.
Paul Hingston (2016) Rethinking Psychotherapy. Leicester: Matador. Review by Liz Burns.
Annie enjoys sparkling moments at the Aspens conference
The Aspens conference
Duchess of Cambridge visit – Julia Evans
AFT news
Branching out
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Sarah Helps
Gender – gender identity – geography – race – religion – age – ability – appearance – class – culture – caste – education – ethnicity – economics – spirituality – sexuality – sexual orientation – writ large on the wall – Rukiya Jemmott
(Dis)gracefully engaging with diversity learning – reflections on the social graces as a training tool – Lizette Nolte
Graces that bite: Unleashing the GRR in the graces – Karen Partridge and Nicola McCarry
Working with religious people: Personal and professional reflections – Barry Mason
Equalism: The heart of the social graces – Nick Child
Intersectionality and systemic therapy – Catherine Butler
Exploration of attire as an unvoiced ‘GRACE’ – Sophie Cockell
How DNA helped to go deeper: A Puerto Rican therapist’s reflections of his exploration of ethnicity – Jason Maldonado-Page
Putting the pieces together – Jos Twist
Therapeutic coherence: Exploring the lived and untold stories of our lives – Davy Evans, Frances Minhinnick & Simon Thompson
Be-wilder – Stephen Mills
‘Dissing’ the social graces – Victoria Jones and Donna Reeve
Ability and the graces: Dancing gracefully (or not) around difference – reflections on the meaning of ability – Sarah Coles
G is for geography – Leah Salter
Commentaries on this issue – John Burnham and Alison Roper-Hall
Jo Bownas & Glenda Fredman (eds.) (2017) Working with Embodiment in Supervision: A Systemic Approach. London: Routledge. – Reviewed by Jim Wilson
International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) Congress, 16 – 18 March 2017, Malaga – Shan Tate and Hannah Sherbersky
Annie explores the social GGRRAAACCEEESSS
Branching out
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Ged Smith
Systemic therapy: From the other side – Rachael Lambe
The aesthetics of interruption: Points of entry in systemic therapy – Ged Smith
Signposts and weathercocks: Travels with ethics in supervision practice in Hull – Nuala Cullen
A mind crammed full isn’t mindful: ‘We are upset and angry and we’re talking politics and money – it’s a dirty subject’ – Maggie Usher and Elaine Holliday
Systemic practice in an inpatient unit: Limitations and frustrations – how do we move forward? – Philippa Donald
‘Having a learning disability isn’t the end of everything’: Reflections on creating the tree of life with individuals with intellectual disabilities – Aleksandra Laszczynska and Lorna Robbins
Celebrating differences: Improving psychological well-being in children and young people living with chronic physical illness – Jennie Robertson, Tara Shea and Louise Rylatt
The Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Peer Supported Open Dialogue service: Perspectives from the team – James Osborne, Marcus Colman, Annie Jeffrey, Teresa Barker, Michael Bowley, Rachel Waddingham, Ben Sanders and Catherine Kinane
A course within a course: An evaluation of shared learning on a systemic foundation course for clinical psychology trainees and multidisciplinary staff – Catherine Butler and Jo Black
Using narratives with children in care to communicate about challenging issues – William Coman, Sinead Dickson, Lynda McGill and Michelle Rainey
Mabel’s story – Mabel
Advanced brief-strategic therapy with a bulimic client lost in grief and bereavement: Some ideas on how to navigate circuitous therapeutic terrain – Don Boardman
Report of the Directors and Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st December 2016 for The Association for Family Therapy Ltd (a Company Limited by Guarantee)
Minutes of the 41st AGM of The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, held on 15 September 2016 at The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton from 4pm to 5.15pm
Chair’s report
Treasurer’s report for the 2017 AGM reporting on the financial year ending December 2016
Liaison and professional development project
Project 4 report: Membership and communication
AGM reports from committees (from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017)
Report from AFT representatives on the Council of the College of Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy (UKCP)
Branching out – Northern Ireland
AFT news
The Grenfell Tower inferno – thoughts and words from an AFT member – Nasima Khanom
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Pat Gray and Gary Robinson
Thoughts about systemic practitioners and family therapists – Gary Robinson and Pat Gray
Throwing and catching hearts – Lindsey Hampson
The tree of life and supervision narratives – Sue Colegrave
Childhood obesity – thinking systemically – Hayley Tuffin
Therapeutic practices and shame – Mark Evans
Coffee and emotions – Gemma Rubio
Working in the outdoors using a systemic lens – Paul Andrews
Working in uncomfortable positions: Adapting Karl Tomm’s ethical postures for use with care staff in intellectual disability services – Matt Selman and Scott Wall
A liturgical framework for systemic family-practice – Chris Heseltine-James
Making waves – in whose ocean? – Shaziyah Afzal
My experiences of the systemic family-practitioner training (eating disorders strand) at the University of Exeter – Louise Cooper
The value of training: CYP IAPT systemic family-practice (eating disorders) – Jo Lauri
Resources and restraints in anticipating systemic training – Gary Robinson
A service evaluation of the experiences of trainees on the Systemic – Family Practice Child IAPT (Improved Access to Psychological Therapies) programme – Hannah Sherbersky
Mothers on the spectrum – Felicity Rosslyn
Annie sets up her website
Branching out – AFT Cymru
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Lindsey Hampson and Danny McGowan
SCORE 15: A tool that just keeps on giving! – Gary Robinson
Routine outcome monitoring and clinical supervision: A conversation starter – Danny McGowan
Using routine outcome measures to inform practice – Ella Mosby
Missing the mark? Outcome measurement of systemic therapy with people with intellectual disabilities – Erica Clayton
“Dancing between discourses” and evidencing change in early intervention in psychosis – Helena Rose
Feedback and conversational tools: How come? – Rolf Sundet
One in a million (and a half). Doing one’s best as an NHS governor – Sigurd Reimers
How do we know we are helping? From outcomes to impact – Steve Flatt and Suzi Curtis
Routine outcome measures: What would Marx and Foucault say? – Lindsey Hampson and Danny McGowan
A systemic formulation of the barriers and facilitators to engaging in routine outcome measures in a child and adolescent mental health service – Lindsey Hampson
Remembering how to live – Ken Storey
Teaching the systemic use of routine outcome measures – Elaine Farrer and Tom O’Neill
Just how effective is systemic therapy? Can SCORE help? – Peter Stratton
Feedback-oriented family therapy – Peter Rober, Karine Van Tricht and Rolf Sundet
Dialogical supervision in an NHS open-dialogue service – James Osborne, Yasmin Ishaq, Marcus Colman, Ben Sanders and Michael Bowley
Exploring new paths: A therapeutic metaphor for taking risks in and outside of therapy – Maddy
Sal Minuchin, 1921 – 2017 – Alan Cooklin
Branching out – Manchester (MAFT)
Nick Child challenges Aspens: Be bold not bashful!
AFT news
The professional affairs committee’s position statement on AFT systemic practitioner membership
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