The adaptation of a Solution Focused Brief Therapy domestic violence perpetrator programme: a case study with a client with a learning disability
Re‐offending rates of perpetrators of domestic violence are high (Hester et al., ) and there is a need for perpetrator programmes to reduce victimization. There is no clear evidence for the effectiveness of existing programmes (Bowen, Gilchrist and Beech, ; Herman, Rotunda, Williamson and Vodanovich, ; Smedslund et al., ). A new perpetrator programme based on Solution Focused Brief Therapy has been developed (Bowen, ), and whilst in its infancy it has received positive feedback from services and clients (International Innovation, ). Solution Focused Brief Therapy has been found to be effective in the reduction of aggress...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosemary Banting, Catherine Butler, Charlotte Swift Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The adaptation of a Solution Focused Brief Therapy domestic violence perpetrator programme: a case study with a client with a learning disability
Journal of Family Therapy, EarlyView. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The importance of adoption of formal client feedback in therapy: a narrative review
Couple and family therapy has well‐established benefits. Although the majority of clients benefit, some worsen, some show no positive change, and some drop out early. This suggests that existing treatment modalities require further advancement. One promising avenue to achieve advancement involves instituting, as the standard of care, formalized client feedback, which has been shown to improve outcomes. This paper is a non‐systematic review that outlines several formalized feedback systems currently available and highlights each system's utility with application to couple and family therapy. While couple and family ther...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sara Lappan, Zain Shamoon, Adrian Blow Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The importance of adoption of formal client feedback in therapy: a narrative review
Journal of Family Therapy, EarlyView. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of Ecologically ‐Based Family Therapy with substance‐using, prostituting mothers
Studies report that high rates of prostituting women seek substance use treatment, and that most of these women have children in their care. However, compared to non‐prostituting women, they show poorer treatment outcomes. Effective intervention for this population is needed, and the current study is the first to test family therapy with mothers seeking substance use treatment, who also reported prostitution. Sixty‐eight treatment‐seeking women with children in their care were randomly assigned to receive twelve sessions of Ecologically‐Based Family Therapy or twelve sessions of individual treatment. Results showed...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Aaron Murnan, Qiong Wu, Natasha Slesnick Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Effects of Ecologically ‐Based Family Therapy with substance‐using, prostituting mothers
Journal of Family Therapy, EarlyView. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Journal of Family Therapy, Ahead of Print. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
John Shotter: a personal tribute
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Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Rober Tags: Tribute Source Type: research
A girl in the ‘boys’ club’: supervision, narrative ideas, ethics and intersectionality
This article describes some of the challenge involved in supervising a well‐established and experienced team of two Family Therapists and one Clinical Psychology trainee in placement. It highlights the journey of a female trainee family therapist's supervisor in the context of a male team. In this article the author argues the importance of using a working framework and structure to unbalance power pressures and bring forth trust in the team. It is illustrated with narrative ideas, practices in supervision and a brief description of intersectionality applied to this context. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mariangels Ferrer Duch Tags: Student prize winning essay Source Type: research
Parenting advice for intercultural couples: a systemic perspective
This article presents advice for intercultural parents, based on findings of a qualitative study that examined how intercultural parents negotiated their cultural differences. Semi‐structured in‐depth interviews were conducted with fourteen intercultural heterosexual couples/parents in South East Queensland. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data and understand the meanings of participants’ experiences. The findings revealed that not only aspects of cultural background, but also systemic and contextual factors impacted on the experiences of intercultural parents. Advice for intercultural parents is described from...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dharam Bhugun Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Systemic psychotherapists as expert witnesses in the family court: ‘visitors to another world’?
This article is based on research on the interface between systemic psychotherapists who as expert witnesses write reports for the family court in England and the judges who receive them. It explores how well a systemic stance is suited to this type of work and whether there is scope for more systemic therapists to involve themselves in it. The research was conducted through semi‐structured interviews with systemic psychotherapists with experience of acting as expert witnesses and with family court judges. The results were analysed using grounded theory. In the process of the research the focus expanded from an abstract ...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Hickman Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
A dialogical research methodology based on Buber: intersubjectivity in the research interview
This article briefly details a unique Buberian dialogical research methodology, devised for research into psychological and emotional abuse in families. Informed by Buber's premise that dialogue is the source of knowing, this methodology privileges the intersubjectivity between participant and researcher. It is operationalized in methods that highlight the dialogical process within the research interview, from which dialogical knowing may emerge. Analysis of the intersubjective process is based on the conceptualization of five poetic images that recur in Buber's work, as illustrated in the micro‐analysis contained in thi...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Judith M. Brown Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
New paradigms of parenthood: researching practice in a fertility clinic incarnating new forms of family
This article presents a model where the ‘small’ stories of everyday lives are turned from a passing event into a research enterprise as witness to social change. For the social skills we use to do both practice and research attach us to real human beings in deeply human ways.
Practitioner points
One counselling conversation can help people to reflect on creating the new forms of family they envision and place this in an ethical context.
Conversational practice challenges institutional traditions and moves towards a more philosophical model of collaborative inquiry
Clients telling their story become observers of their o...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Helen Bohme Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
