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Human Systems: the Journal of Systemic Consultation and Management

Volume 5, Issue 1-4    1994


Volume 5, Issues 1-2 

Editorial Peter Stratton                                                    P.1-4

 

Language and Action: Wittgenstein and Dewey in Practice of Therapy and Consultation

Vernon Cronen and Peter Lang                                       P.5-44

 

Issues of Interpretive Methodology

Kirsten Costain Schou and Jenny Hewison                    P.45-68

 

The Context of Culture in Systemic Therapy

Chris Hannah                                                              P.69-82

 

Beyond Instrumentalism: The Use of Metaphor in Family Therapy

David Spellman                                                           P.83-96

 

Reflections on the Practice of Systemic Management in the Climate of the “Contract” Culture

Viv Gross                                                                  P.97-108

 

Research Process and Gendered Reflexivity

Charlotte Burck and Stephen Frosh                           P.109-122

 

Perspective: Practices in Search of Theories

John Burnham, Jeanette Samper, Eduardo Villar        P.123-126


 Volume 5, Issues 3-4

 SPECIAL ISSUE: POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION

 GUEST EDITOR: IMELDA COLGAN McCARTHY

 Editorial Imelda Colgan McCarthy                             P.127-130

 

THEORY AND FIRST PERSON NARRATIVES

 Culture, Class, Race and Gender

Monica McGoldrick                                                  P.131-154

 

Just Now I’d Like to be Called Myra

Myra McGuirk and Nollaig Byrne                               P.155-168

 

Gender and Poverty as Contexts for Depression

Elsa Jones                                                              P.169-184

 

Ask and You Shall Receive: A One Way Street? 

Bernadette O’Sullivan                                               P.185-190

 

Some Central Ideas in the “Just Therapy” Approach

Charles Waldegrave and Kiwi Tamasese                    P.191-208

 

Living and Working in a Poor Community

Jo Kennedy                                                             P.209-218

 

DECONSTRUCTING NORMS

 The Family We Live and the Family We Think

Helosia R. Szymanski Gomes                                  P.219-228

 

Abusing Norms: Welfare Families and a Fifth Province Stance Imelda Colgan McCarthy                                          P.229-240

 

Therapy with the Culturally Different

Adele Garcia                                                           P.241-251

 

DILEMMA AND SOCIAL SERVICES

 Working with Families in Institutions for Juvenile Offenders: An Ecosystemic Model for the Development of Family Involvement Yoel Elizur                                                              P.253-266

 

Focusing the Network: Multicultural Experiences from the Crisis Unit in Botkyrka, Sweden

Gunner Forsberg and Johan Wallmark                       P.267-282

 

Rehabilitation, Child Abuse and Poverty: A Quintet of Problems Entailed by the Dominant Discourse

Alan Carr                                                                P.283-292

 

Responding to the Mental Health Needs: The Indian Dilemma Clyde, M. Murthy                                                     P.293-304

 

Who is a Customer for Social Service: Some Risks for Abusive Practices in the Transition to Purchaser-Provider Systems in Swedish Social Servies

Ernst Salamon                                                        P.305-318

 

Poverty and Social Services

Laura Fruggeri and Massimo Matteini                       P.319-336