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Human Systems: the Journal of Systemic Consultation and Management

Volume 8, Issue 1-4    1997


Volume Eight, Issue 1 1997

SPECIAL ISSUE IN APPRECIATION OF 25 YEARS OF SYSTEMIC INFLUENCE BY THE CENTRO MILANESE DI TERAPIA DELLA FAMIGLIA

 Editorial                                               P.1-2

 

Narrative-ating: Future Dreams in Present Living

Peter Lang and Elspeth McAdam            P.3-12

 

Love is not Love Which Alters When It Alteration Find

Philippa Seligman, Brian Cade (and Shakespeare)  

                                                             P.13

 Sprouts, Jigsaws and Acorns

Philippa Seligman                                  P.14-16

 

Unpredictability, Joan of Arc and Emigration

Brian Cade                                             P.17-22

 

Infatuations, Inspirations and Enduring Influences: An Appreciative Account of our Relationship with the Milan Approach since 1979

Queenie Harris and John Burnham              P.23-32

 

Is it Circular or is ir Round?  The Consequences of Curiosity Margery Pike                                            P.33-34

 

Multivalencies

Elsa Jones                                               P.35-38

 

From Milan to Milan: True Tales about the Structural Milan Approach

Eia Asen                                                   P.39-42

 

Taken at a Flood

Peter Reder                                                 P.43-48

 

Teams and Gurus: An Outing

Kate Stewart                                               P.49-50

 

‘Milan’ as a Cure for Therapy

Larry Anderson                                           P.51-54

 

From Colonialism to Co-Creation.  Salutations from Latin American Culture

Eduardo Villar                                            P.55-62

 

Luigi-‘n-Gianfranco

Bebe Speed                                              P.63-64

 

The Seeds of Devolution

Brenda Cox, Ros Draper, Jeff Faris, Sue Jones and Jim Wilson                                                     P.65-66

 

Reverence for Irreverence and the Paradox of Being Liberated by a Powerful Influence Peter Stratton and Helga Hanks

                                                              P.67-71


Volume 8 Issue 2

Contents:

Editorial                     Dr Peter Stratton                 73

 

This Issue of the Journal is a new venture. We have been struck by the high quality of research  dissertations coming out of MSc courses, and by the fact that most of this work is unlikely  to be  seen out side of the institution in which the degree was obtained.  We therefore decided on the experiment of producing an issue of the abstracts of dissertations from a number of institutions.

 

Sections 1    The relationship of clients to systemic therapists  

                                                                                             77

 What accounts do people give of the first session of therapy in relation to the decision to continue?

Barbara McKay                                                                 78

 

A study of pre treatment preparation and anxiety in clients referred to a new Family Therapy service.

Linda Jacobs                                                                     79

 

The effects of the clinical relationship in family therapy.

Ged Smith                                                                            80

 

To what extent do therapists and clients begin their relationship with shared objectives and ideas about family therapy?  Does this change over

Ron Graves                                                                         81

 

A pilot study to assess whether clients and their relatives experience

less anxiety when referred to a community mental health team if a

family therapy is used.      

Susan H.Petty                                                                        82

 

The clients's view of the reflecting team: a single case study

Olga Levitt                                                                                83

 

Where have they got to?  Family work in a child protection team.

Liz Rigg                                                                                     84

 

Co-ordinating different times

Carole Poole                                                                             85     

 

A social constructionist exploration of sexually abused man's dilemmas in using therapy.

Sheila Lauchlan

 

 Section 2

Children and Family Structure                                                 89

 

The significance of belief systems in child protection agreements.

Phillippe Mandin                                                                           90

 

Fostering Identities

Ann Fausset                                                                                     91

 

Literacy as autobiography:  A case study of a white working class boy and his family developing stories of his literacy.

Patsy Way                                                                                          92

 

Children in transition: A systemic approach to secondary transfer

Rita E McGrath                                                                                  93

 

Reaching Out:  An come study of adolescents  attending for systemic therapy at a family centre in west London

Catherine Rodger                                                                                94

 

 Perceptions of parenting:  Do childhood recollections of relationships with parents affect individuals perceptions of their own parenting?  A pilot study

Rosemarie Roberts

 

Section 3

Minority Races

 

Reflections on the accounts of professionals working with the Bangladeshi community

Jo Jackson                                                                                            97

 

Black families with black therapists:  A discussion on colour  matching in family therapy practice

Sharon Bond                                                                                          98

 

Factors affecting disclosure of HIV status to family members amongst Ugandan asylum seekers in the UK.

Derval Murray                                                                                         99

 

The refugee families referred to the child and family consultations service.  An outcome study

Pari Farzim                                                                                             100

 

 Section 4

Special Groups of Clients

 

A Systemic framework for working with couples and schizophrenia

Betty Drury                                                                                               105

 

Surfing Social Worlds: Living accounts of competence in a hospice setting

Alison Roberts                                                                                       106

 

Reflexive accounting: stories of Alcoholics Anonymous, AIAnon and couples who use them

Sheila Roche                                                                                            107

 

Schizophrenia, families and the community mental health team.  Are family interventions useful, needed or wanted?

Ron McGarvey                                                                                        108

 

Family backgrounds of adolescent males who kill

Andrew Hill-Smith                                                                                 110

 

A Social Construction of Carers

Paul Maher                                                                                               111

 

An episode of "primary participatory research": How moving into the position of "participating researcher" brought forth new narratives of legitimacy responsibility for a former Munchausen syndrome by proxy patient

Amanda Jones                                                                                         112

 

Section 5

Gender and the Functioning of therapists

 

'Women and men in Conversation'.  A study of interruptions in same-sex and cross-sex exchanges in family therapy

Jacqueline Stratford                                                                                115

 

Representations of gender in family therapy, performance repertoires

Graham Lee                                                                                              116

 

Gender reflections in therapy

John Quinn                                                                                               11 7

 

Lesbians, gay men and family therapy:  A contradiction in terms?

Maeve Mal                                                                                                  118

 

Therapist recognition of 'In Home' parental separation

Alan Hundson                                                                                          119

 

Exploring therapeutic change: a CMM approach to episode of lesbian violence

Caroline Priest                                                                                        120

 

Where does the father figure?  Therapists' consideration of mothers and fathers in children's psychopathology

Trish Evans                                                                                             121

 

Section 6

Systemic theory and technique and therapeutic process

 

Family group conferences:  An investigation into families considered for a pilot project in a South London Borough

Robert McCandless                                                                            125

 

 What do experienced family therapists do in first session interviews with families?

Marie McBride                                                                                       126

 

The distance between families' maps and therapists' maps and its influence on therapeutic engagement

Ali El-Hadi                                                                                             127

 

 The process question:  A moment of opportunity for the development of reflexivity?

Lesley Birchall                                                                                      128

 

Co-ordination within  marketing context:: A case study

Suri Poulos                                                                                          129

 

'Going on' together: A case study social construction of team work.

Miriam Richardson                                                                            130


Volume 8, Issues 3-4

SPECIAL ISSUE: PRIVATE PAIN, PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT

 GUEST EDITOR: SARA COBB

Editorial Sara Cobb                                              P.133-138

 

Working the Boundaries: the Enfamilied Self in the Traditional Organization Jane Jorgenson, Kimberley Weller Gregory and bethany Crandell Goodier                                        P.139-152

 

Parenting as an Effect of the Power/Knowledge Discourse of Child Custody Law: Foucault and the Regulation of a Gendered Private Sphere                                                        P.153-180

 

Newz from the ‘Hood’: The Stephanie Kuhen Murder in the Los Angeles Time Wayne Martin Mellinger                      P.181-208

 

The Mark of Cain: Consciousness and Testimony in the Epistemology                                                        P.209-224

 

Recovering the Experience of Freedom from the Collective to the Personal...and back Carlos E. Sluzki                      P.225-248

 

Power, Abusive Discourses and Women in Poverty Imelda Colgan McCarthy                                                  P.239-250

 

The Public Spectacle of Private Pain: The Social Construction of Violence and Community Sara Cobb                      P.251-274

 

The Systemic Model for Preventing Violence in Public Places: A Phenomenological Approach Sonya E. Delgado         P.275-288

 

Power, Control and Organizational Silence, Using Team Inquiry to Engender Multilogue Shoshana Simons                 P.289-310

 

The Pain of Politics and the Politics of Pain Sheila McNamee                                                              P.311-328

 

The Spectacle of Grief: A Personal Odyssey             P.329-348


 


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