{"title":"Training in systems theory using a contextual pedagogical approach during the October revolution in Lebanon: Reflections from a clinical psychology program","authors":"Tania Bosqui, Estefania Hanna","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12395","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12395","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The October 2019 <i>thawra</i> (revolution) in Lebanon saw unprecedented mass protests across the country in response to governmental corruption, mismanagement and a looming economic disaster. Students learning family systems theory as part of the Clinical Psychology Program at the American University of Beirut faced, at this time, a disconnect between applying systems theory at the individual family level, and their overwhelming experiences at the collective national level. A contextual pedagogical approach was used to apply systems theory to observations of societal level processes during the revolution. Students reported positive feedback about the approach, particularly for being responsive and flexible to student needs, and demonstrating the relevance of systems theory at the community level and not just the family level. Lessons learned, such as sensitivity to both divided and multiple perspectives on national events, are also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 3","pages":"434-442"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43842935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflecting Team Practices outside the therapy room: A thematic analysis of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) away-day process with a team undergoing change","authors":"Sarah Jane Coles, Shona Reed-Purvis","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12393","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12393","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper evaluates whether Reflecting Team Practices (RTP) are a helpful tool to a team (i) undergoing change and (ii) to facilitate staff being heard across the hierarchy. We hypothesised that RTP would enable staff to speak and be listened to, in relation to their experiences of organisational restructuring. We offered three team away-day and follow-up processes. Due to the paucity of systematic research in this area, we designed a qualitative process, utilising individual interviews with four team members aged 30–59 years. Interview data were analysed using thematic analysis. Thematic analysis yielded seven themes, which enabled understanding of our team’s experiences of separating talking and listening. It has also led to wider changes in our teams functioning and our communication with other parts of the organisation in which we work. The results are very limited due to the small sample size, but further research in this area is warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 3","pages":"422-433"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45580892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What can families really do? A scoping review of family directed services aimed at preventing violent extremism","authors":"Håvard Haugstvedt","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12392","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12392","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract The activities of extremist groups are perceived as a key threat to modern democracies. However, much remains unknown about the role families can play in prevention or disengagement from such groups. A scoping review identified seven studies that were eligible for inclusion. The findings suggest that there is limited, yet some, support for family-directed services to directly prevent engagement in extremist groups. Rather, family directed services may indirectly influence this by strengthening family members' resilience and thus their ability to engage with the family member. Additionally, professionals working with families where a member is on a path to developing extremist ideology should continuously reflect upon their professional conduct and develop a narrative approach to reduce resistance. An important limitation to these findings is the different contexts and countries they have been conducted in, spanning from East Africa to Northern Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 3","pages":"408-421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-6427.12392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49053222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Positional responsibility in systemic-dialogical therapy","authors":"Claudia Lini, Paolo Bertrando","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12390","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12390","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Responsibility is a dimension often overlooked in systemic and family therapy, possibly because of its connection with blame, especially toward victims of violence or abuse. Systemic-dialogical therapy, however, gives relevance to responsibility, in the form of positional responsibility; that is, the responsibility one may take regarding one’s position in the relevant systems and contexts one is embedded in, and the ability to find one’s place within them. To help clients in such efforts, therapists must, in turn, take responsibility for the development of the therapeutic process. The process of taking responsibility in therapy, therefore, is twofold: it concerns clients, of course, but it also involves the therapist. This article proposes a method for working on positional responsibility in clinical work, illustrating it with clinical examples.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 3","pages":"339-350"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46650513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directing from the shadows: Women’s experiences of male relative suicide bereavement","authors":"Evelyn Gordon, Rosaleen McElvaney","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12388","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12388","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Suicide bereavement evokes particular emotions that can hamper recovery processes, if neglected. This Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study explored five women’s experiences of bereavement following the death by suicide of a male relative. One superordinate theme, directing from the shadows, and three interrelated subordinate themes: roller coasting, speaking the unspeakable, and finding meaning and living with suicide were identified. This study highlights that women bereaved by suicide may occupy a complex position in the family when trying to balance caring for themselves and others, sometimes leading them to negate their own support and therapeutic needs. However, women in this study felt supported by timely, flexible and sensitive professional responses and found a proactive outreach approach, peer support groups and counselling helpful at different stages in their bereavement process.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 3","pages":"396-407"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-6427.12388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44138233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The handbook of systemic family therapy, volume 3: Systemic family therapy with couples , Karen S. Wampler , Adrian J. Blow, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2020, 570pp. ISBN 9781119438557","authors":"Gilbert Lemmens","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12389","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 2","pages":"330-332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62594518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of racism and systemic responses","authors":"Sim Roy-Chowdhury, Grania Clarke","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12387","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44086713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kehinde Afuape, Nsimere Bisimwa, Kate Campbell, Rukiya Jemmott, Julia Jude, Nasif Nijabat, Moyosore Olorunoje, Sharon Simpson
{"title":"Black and proud: Impact of intergenerational racism upon global majority family systems","authors":"Kehinde Afuape, Nsimere Bisimwa, Kate Campbell, Rukiya Jemmott, Julia Jude, Nasif Nijabat, Moyosore Olorunoje, Sharon Simpson","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12386","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12386","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Racism is a pervasive force; its influence is felt in the lives of Global Majority people worldwide, and across generations. As Global Majority systemic psychotherapists in the UK, we take a position to stand against racism in all areas of systemic theory and practice. The ideas in this paper offer an opportunity for all systemic psychotherapists to join us in the decolonisation of theories, practices and knowledge, to step outside White Western structures that have kept Global Majority voices silenced for too long. This article reviews the damage of intergenerational racism upon the lives of Global Majority systemic psychotherapists and the Global Majority families we support. We invite systemic psychotherapy to begin drawing on the rich cacophony of Indigenous knowledge, from Africa and the Caribbean, and from East, West and South Asia to de-centre ‘White ways of knowing’.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 1","pages":"5-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45391675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aina Helen Løberg, Sari Kaarina Lindeman, Lennart Lorås
{"title":"Keeping the balance. The efforts of bereaved siblings prior to their brothers’ or sisters’ drug-related death","authors":"Aina Helen Løberg, Sari Kaarina Lindeman, Lennart Lorås","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12385","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12385","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this study is to explore the burdens on siblings prior to their siblings’ deaths. A qualitative approach using reflexive thematic analysis was chosen. Fourteen interviews were conducted. The research question for this study is as follows: What did the bereaved siblings’ efforts consist of while their siblings with problematic substance use were alive? The interviews had a retrospective focus; hence, participants were asked to discuss the time prior to their siblings’ drug-related death. Three different tasks were identified using reflexive thematic analysis: (1) emotional support, (2) social inclusion and (3) practical support. The findings of this study are discussed in relation to <i>homoeostasis</i>. <i>Homoeostasis</i> refers to an understanding of the family as a system in which <i>family rules</i> contribute to maintaining the status quo.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 3","pages":"384-395"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45843719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining our own relationships to racism as the foundation of decolonising systemic practices. ‘No time like the present’","authors":"Jasmine Chin, Gillian Hughes, Ashley Miller","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12384","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12384","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Racist discourses embedded in our social structures can have a profoundly negative impact on people's emotional well-being. This paper calls for a re-focusing within systemic therapy on anti-colonial and social justice approaches specifically on addressing racism. We propose that if we are to make this shift in our practice, we need to first engage in processes of self-reflexivity about the impact of racism on ourselves and our personal relationships. We draw on Paolo Freire's idea of ‘conscientisation’, or consciousness raising – a form of self-reflexivity through the lens of power, and on the work of McKenzie-Mavinga, who highlights the importance of therapists developing their awareness and understanding of how racism operates in their lives. We illustrate these ideas through an exploration of how we have approached this work within a long-standing peer supervision group.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"44 1","pages":"76-90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47890699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}