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 – Amanda Middleton and Alex Iantaffi – a dialogue
Reflexions – Kris Black
In his own words: A narrative analysis of the stories of trans men in gender transition – Claire Ely
Multi-family support for adolescents with gender variance – Yang Yang Teh and Carolyn Bush
The theatre of life: Collective narrative practice with young trans people – Dane Duncan Mills, Maria Castro Romero and Jesse Ashman
Re-ordering gender: The challenge of responding to trans and non-binary young people in CAMHS – Damian McCann
An invitation to explore: A brief overview of the Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Development Service – Jason Maldonado-Page and Sarah Favier
G’s lesson: A journey from ignorance to advocacy – Alison Yocom
‘What’s fabulous about being non-binary?’: Non-cisgenderist clinical responses to systemic trauma – Y. Gavriel Ansara
The social construction of non-binary gender identity – Catherine Butler
Being a non-binary therapist within a binary therapy system – Meg-John Barker
What therapists need to know when working with intersex clients: A primer – Jane Czyzselska
Beyond trans tolerance and trans inclusion: Contributing to transformative spaces in an all-genders youth, live-in, substance-misuse programme – Vikki Reynolds in dialogue with James Kelly
Narratives of sexuality and intimacy in the partners of trans people – Jos Twist
Trans sexualities in the therapy room – Amanda Middleton and H Howitt
Book review: Gorell Barnes, G. (2018) Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times. London: Karnac – Reviewed by Alex Reed
Obituary: Lynn Hoffman, 1924 – 2017 – Judy Davies
Cutting the crap together: A report on a collaborative training event in Scotland – Kirsty Darwent, Alison Burgess and Naomi Nyamudoka
“The unbalanced woman” – Annie gets feedback from an ‘expert by experience’
AFT news
AFT Code of Ethics and Practice, January 2018
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Philip Messent and Alastair Pearson
Schools and mental-health practitioners: What parents, carers and young people want you to know – Denise McDermott and the Tower Hamlets CAMHS People Participation Group
Systemic practice in schools: A teachers’ perspective – Lesley Swarbrick
CosmoKidz: Teaching children response-abilities in their relationships – Kim Pearce and Marit Eikaas
Developing the ‘Empowering Parents Empowering Communities’ programme in schools in Newham and Ealing – Caroline Penney
Creating a secure base: Promoting learning and development through systemic consultations in education – David Levy and Chryssa Chalkidou
Some principles and practices for getting started with consultation with school staff – Victoria Mattison and Glenda Fredman
Negotiating the hierarchy in schools: Some ideas for CAMHS professionals – Chris Glenn
Starting up a CAMHS outreach service in primary schools – Deborah Kemp
Family therapy goes to school – Sharon Bond
Narrative therapy: Working systemically with schools and their communities – Charmian Hobbs and Cate McQueen
Team of life: Collective narrative practice in UK schools – Vicky Eames
Branching out – running an LGBTQ group in school – Harriet O’Brien
The Family School London – Brenda McHugh and Neil Dawson
The evolution of a schools systemic-practitioner – Alastair Pearson
Kathryn Abel and Rosalind Ramsay (eds.) (2017) The Female Mind: A User’s Guide. London: Royal College of Psychiatry Publications – Reviewed by Liz Burns
Joining with Bangladesh at IFTA Malaga 2017 – Glenda Fredman, Sabiha Jahan, Philip Messent and Md. Zahir Uddin
Aspens conference, Manchester, Saturday 20 February 2018
Wide-open spaces – reflections on the 2017 AFT conference in Dunblane – Karen Holford, Sarah Eldrid, Eoin Power, and a few lines from Jackie Kay
Mindful reflections – Irene Cronin
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Chip Chimera
What we mean by parental alienation: Information for parents – Prepared by Chip Chimera
Parental alienation – a systemic perspective – Brian O’Sullivan
Developing coherent narratives for children of high-conflict parents – Emma Morris and Eia Asen
Wishes and feelings – Chip Chimera
Action oriented and experiential work in the context of high-conflict divorce – Justine van Lawick and Margreet Visser
Has parental alienation any relevance for your practice? Myrna Gower and Anna Gupta
Alienation: A view from the bridge – Nick Child
The challenges of working with parental alienation – Frankie Zimmerman and Finella Hill
Special interest group report – Judy Henry
Cafcass Positive Parenting Programme: Reducing parental conflict – a new intervention – a briefing and some initial reflections – Charlotte Cooklin
Annie looks for work – Jeannette Thompson
Vetere, A. & Dowling, E. (eds.) (2017) Narrative Therapies with Children and Their Families: A Practitioner’s Guide to Concepts and Approaches (2nd edition). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Reviewed by Viv Gross
Salvador Minuchin memorial conference
- Foreword – Arlene Vetere
Grenfell Tower fire: Zikir – in awe and remembrance of you – Nasima Khanom
Four presenters reflect on the AFT day-conference: Making a difference in Wales – family and systemic psychotherapy in practice. Cardiff University Conference Centre, February 15th 2018.
Branching out – London AFT – Elizabeth Day
The Association for Family Therapy Data Protection Policy
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Ged Smith
The birds discuss diversity – Gina Crowley
Exploring power in therapeutic relationships – Manus Moynihan and Sherry Rehim
Creativity in systemic supervision – Matt Selman, Margaret Dimmock, and Emily Barber
How transparent are we really? A case study in minding the gap between family and team conversations – Von Kelso
The sheepdog technique: Making appointments effective, efficient and maybe even ethical? – Nick Child
The systemic psychotherapist’s guide to the galaxy (abridged): 5 strategies – Blake Griffin Edwards
The personal politics of becoming a visibly tattooed psychologist: Participating in a chosen social grace of appearance – James Randall
A personal dilemma – seeing the bigger picture using context lenses – Anonymous
Learning emotional logic: A systemic lifelong-learning intervention for adaptability – Christiaan Stirling, Elizabeth Bunce and Trevor Griffiths
2nd Systemic Postgraduate Research Conference: Curiosity and Critical Practice Research – The 4th Bedfordshire International Systemic Spring School, Brathay Hall, Ambleside, The Lake District: “Making a ‘NewSense’ of practice and research” – Monica Whyte and Paula Kennedy
Report of the Directors and Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2017 for The Association for Family Therapy (a Company Limited by Guarantee)
43rd AGM agenda
Minutes of the 42nd AGM of The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice held on 14th September 2017 at The DoubleTree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro, FK15 0HG from 6pm to 7.15pm
Report from the chair
Treasurer’s report for the 2018 AGM reporting on the financial year ending 31 December 2017
Annual reports from the chairs of AFT committees
AFT branch reports
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Brian Cade
Stepping stones across the river: Sharing ideas for couples with intellectual disabilities who have relationship difficulties – Kelly Cocallis, Jack, Vicky and Matt Selman
A modern day fairy-tale: John and the ‘battling of jealousy’ – Michelle Newman Brown
Familiar ideas for changing times: Our Cambridgeshire experience continued, using ‘approach, method, technique’ to address innovation and sustainability – Rachel Watson
Commentary: ‘Approach method technique’ (AMT), 1992 – 2018, 30+ years – John Burnham
Developing a position of safe uncertainty in stroke rehabilitation – Fiona Grant and Mair Thomas
Embedding family-inclusive practice in a secondary adult mental health service: An expanded role for family therapists – Gail Bradbury and Steve Greenway
Systemic consultation clinics in a community service for people with intellectual disabilities – Matt Selman and Mark Oliver
The unruly path of healing after an affair – Blake Griffin Edwards
Un-professional hug – Chiara Santin
Goal-based outcomes in systemic therapy: Clever, but not SMART – Mark Hurst
Cognitive connections: Creativity in the reflecting team experience – Linda Jorgensen-Taylor
Just a minute! Visions for a therapy with hesitation, repetition and deviation – Sigurd Reimers
Polly the dog – Lauren Grainger, Tracey Woodcock, Hilary Graham and Alex Walker
Branching out: Cornwall and Plymouth branch (CAPAFT) – keeping a branch alive within such a vast geographical area
AFT news
Contents snapshot
Editorial – Barbara McKay and Yoko Totsuka
Is it me, is it you or is it us? Using systemic theory to understand one professional dilemma – Jackie Miles and Barbara McKay
One story of partnership working – Clare Corrigan and Barbara McKay
Using systemic frameworks and language to explore and embed safeguarding practices within the GP role – Georgina E. Edwards and Barbara McKay
Practice gains: Introducing ‘signs of safety’ alongside systemic theories – Tony Stanley
Shame in families and shaming families – Matthew Gibson
A richer system: A reflecting team in primary care – Sebastian Kraemer, Hilary Graham, Rob Senior, Sue Dickie, Irene Bard & Mark Chan
Collaborating, connecting and shared learning – the need for a community approach to trauma – Nicola Turhan and Nick Barnes
The power of relationships – systemic conversations in the community – Martin Pratt and Becca Dove
Organising a social ecology to transform youth difficulties in schools and communities – Matthew D. Selekman
An absolute beginner – Mariangels Ferrer-Duch
UKCP registration
Re-cording technology; twists turns and ethical dilemmas – Letter for Context from the ethics committee
Association for Family Therapy (AFT) membership survey 2018 – Charity Tawodzera
AFT news
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