Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy最新文献

{"title":"Journeying Through the ‘Mirrors of Possibilities’: Towards Systemic Psychotherapy Decolonisation","authors":"Tracey Jane Johnston,&nbsp;Peter Robinson","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70074","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper is in two parts. The <i>first part</i> describes the ‘Mirrors of Possibilities’ approach, a novel decolonised systemic psychotherapy ceremony-like method containing our Indigenous Celtic perspective and consideration of our collective ancient indigenous neurobiological roots. This therapeutic model uses metaphorical mirrors to help clients reflect on their strengths, struggles, emotions, identities and interconnections with the aim of fostering healing, belonging and relational growth. The ‘Mirrors of Possibilities’ process is structured into six distinct phases, and its adaptability is demonstrated with client examples. The paper's <i>second part</i> outlines how, using the ‘Mirrors of Possibilities’, therapists can decolonise themselves and systemic psychotherapy by integrating aspects of systemic family therapy and narrative therapy, compassion-focused therapy, the symbolism of Jungian psychology, the Kinship Indigenous Worldview, the Evolved Nest and feminist decolonial intersectionality. This approach aligns with the Indigenous Celtic concept of ‘Duthchas’—a deep sense of belonging and responsibility that reconnects us to our shared humanity and to our Sacred reciprocal relationship with Nature.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708148","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":"La Espiritualidad: Transmitting Peruvian Culturo-Spiritual Elements into Occidental Systemic Spaces","authors":"Deisy Amorin Woods","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70073","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper is a decolonising, Indigenous qualitative inquiry that integrates elements of critical autoethnography, narrative methods and conceptual analysis to explore how Peruvian Andean cosmology can inform contemporary systems thinking and family therapy practice. Writing as a <i>mestiza</i>, a Peruvian migrant in Australia, the author traces the lived experience of cultural erosion within Western, individualistic contexts and her reconnection with ancestral Andean teachings. These teachings—rooted in reciprocity, ecological attachment, collective responsibility and relational balance—are presented as living epistemologies that offer timely contributions to working therapeutically. The author examines core Andean concepts including <i>ayll</i> (kinship-based community), <i>ayni</i> (sacred reciprocity), <i>Yachay (aprenderes Spanish)</i> (embodied ancestral knowledge, through experiential learning), the <i>Chakana</i> (Andean cross) and the cosmological trilogy of <i>Hanan Pacha</i>, <i>Kay Pacha</i> and <i>Ukhu Pacha</i>. These relational ontologies predate and enrich systems thinking and practice, challenging anthropocentric assumptions embedded in Western perspectives and offering timeless frameworks for understanding identity, belonging, ecological distress and intergenerational trauma. Ecological attachment—connection to land, place and the more-than-human world—is proposed as foundational to wellbeing and particularly relevant for Indigenous and migrant families. Applications for systemic practice include recentring relational ontology; integrating ecological and ancestral systems into assessment and formulation; adopting <i>ayni</i> as a relational ethic of humility and accountability; applying <i>yanantin</i> (complementary dualism) to reframe conflict and difference; and incorporating ritual, symbol and embodied practice to support healing. The paper concludes by advocating for a decolonising therapeutic stance that honours Indigenous therapeutic sovereignty, resists cultural imperialism and positions systemic thinkers and practitioners as agents of relational, ecological and cultural reconnection.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.70073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707902","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":"Restoring Relational Balance: Family Therapy Through the CAT-FAWN Indigenous Lens","authors":"Don Four Arrows Jacobs","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article introduces the mnemonic, CAT-FAWN. CAT stands for Concentration-Activated Transformation as a tool for family therapy that emphasises trance-based learning and self-hypnosis mastery. FAWN refers to contrasting understandings of pre-colonial and dominant worldview precepts that relate to Fear, Authority, Words and Nature. It offers a guide for therapists and families to recognise the power of natural hypnosis and a non-dualistic view of contrasting worldview precepts between our nature-based, spiritual understanding of the world and our anthropocentric-materialistic understanding of the world for positive transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566094","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":"Not Trauma Alone: Story, Justice and the Ethics of Naming","authors":"Natasha Bastion,&nbsp;Leah Gillanders,&nbsp;Jenny Snowdon","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the ethical and political implications of trauma becoming the dominant frame in professional and cultural discourse. Although the term <i>trauma</i> has gained widespread use in clinical practice, education and public life, we argue that it risks flattening lived experience, relocating harm inside individuals and obscuring acts of violence, responsibility and resistance. Through a dialogical form, we examine what is lost when trauma replaces more specific words, such as rape, racism or violence and consider what alternative frames—story-informed, justice-informed and solidarity-based—might make possible. Drawing on the work of Michael White, Kathie Crocket, David Newman, Angel Yuen, Vikki Reynolds, Alan Jenkins, Alan Wade, Jenny Snowdon, Loretta Pederson and others, we weave Jacques Derrida's concept of deconstruction with narrative practices, such as double listening, response-based enquiry and documenting small pieces of justice. We argue that words are never neutral: they perform, they shape how responsibility is named and what accountability may come to require, and they influence who is seen or silenced. Our purpose was not to offer closure, but to open commitments and questions. We invite practitioners to resist the reduction of lives into trauma, to centre people's responses, values and acts of living, and to come alongside those whose stories call for clarity, dignity and justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564977","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":"Facilitating Parents' Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Helplessness to Hope. By Jenny Brown, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (United Kingdom), 2023. 169 pp. ISBN: (13) 978-1-52-751748-6","authors":"Laura Hawkins","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563851","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":"SENSES Paradigm – Unravelling SENSES Through Embodied Compassionate Curiosity","authors":"Shakira Nkanang","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70052","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The SENSES paradigm is a relational and embodied framework that invites readers to consider the dominant Western systemic position, which emphasises cognition, verbal dialogue and linguistic coherence. Instead, SENSES invites our whole selves into the therapeutic space. The use of SENSES helps to examine the preverbal, what co-arises through shared sensation, and to invite other ways of knowing as part of relational reflexivity; therapy with a foster carer whose sensory expressions, particularly those related to smell, shaped patterns of connection, resistance and attachment with a child. A poem expanded into a case narrative illustrates how sensory experiences can foster relational safety, curiosity and connection by examining sensory communicative acts, all of which invited me to pivot towards Embodied Compassionate Curiosity and sensory systemic practice. A discussion follows, highlighting how sensory and embodied awareness can deepen relational work.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569628","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":"Worldview As Medicine: Traditional Kituwah (Cherokee), IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Kinship Worldviews","authors":"Suzan A. M. McVicker","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, seven articles published between 2010 and 2023 that describe the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model's interrelatedness with Indigenous healing concepts were analysed for narrative content. Findings included the need to invite Indigenous language speakers into deeper dialogue in order to bridge worldview-informed praxis; the use of small steps to include Indigenous language in IFS healthcare programming; and the centrality of Love in healing/therapy practice emerging across Kituwah worldview, Kinship Worldview and IFS worldview. A new translation of an IFS mnemonic, the 7 Bs of Indigenous-Inspired IFS, also emerged in the traditional Kituwah language. This translation may be transferrable to IFS healthcare programming incorporating other Indigenous languages. This study underscores the need to explore the use of IFS by both Indigenous language speakers who know their traditional worldview and by seasoned IFS practitioners with interest in Indigenous healing. It also demonstrates the need for further IFS research to develop and cultivate a shared language that centres an ethic of Love and can be used across Western and Indigenous healing concepts and practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.70061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568312","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":"Deconstructing Theory, Engaging Practice","authors":"Glenn Larner","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article revisits longstanding differences between modern and postmodern theory within systemic and family therapy and discusses its implications for practice. Drawing on Derrida's understanding of deconstruction as an ethical relation, it proposes a hospitable stance that holds theory lightly and irreverently, opening practice to multiple forms of theory and knowing. This ethical posture precedes epistemology, where the priority for practice is less what and more <i>how</i> therapists know. The paper highlights the benefits of postmodern therapy, with its emphasis on collaborative-dialogic practice, language, not-knowing and relationality, while arguing it risks becoming yet another orthodoxy, foreclosing the pluralism and dialogue it intended to promote. The demands of contemporary practice require therapists to apply modern and postmodern sensibilities, drawing on evidence-based models, neuroscience, trauma-informed frameworks as well as postmodern approaches such as narrative therapy, collaborative-dialogic practice and systemic thinking in a flexible way. The paper proposes a <i>paramodern</i> stance towards theory as a deconstructive bridge—one that acknowledges the enduring value of modern therapy approaches while welcoming the relational, contextual and dialogic perspectives of postmodernism. Here, knowledge can be seen as a spectrum of knowing and not-knowing, where one informs and sits inside the other rather than being opposed as binaries. The author argues for a critical realist and deconstruction perspective that preserves the insights of social constructionism while being theory flexible and irreverent in challenging its anti-realist assumptions. Finally, deconstruction invites a systemic practice grounded in an ethic of hospitality—one that regards theory as a resource for therapy practice. This legitimises diverse models and methodologies where to deconstruct theory is to engage practice in a way that is flexible, grounded in the modern science of therapy while being relationally attuned, collaborative and ethically accountable.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147315570","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":"Tikanga (Cultural Practice and Protocols), Wairuatanga (Spirituality) and Whanonga Pono (Values)—Core Elements in an Indigenous Team Ethic of Trauma-Informed Care","authors":"Fay Pouesi,&nbsp;Rosemary Dewerse,&nbsp;Suzanne Graham,&nbsp;Tillie Lima,&nbsp;Robin E. Dibble","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Two recently published articles on Black Rain have detailed this approach to addressing intergenerational trauma practiced by Māori therapist and counsellor Fay Pouesi. Black Rain utilises visual tools to enable whānau (clients) to recognise the violence they are caught up in, contextualising this more-than-individual reality to penetrate through multiple layers of trauma and attend to holistic healing. Growing interest in this approach has led to the establishment of a team of practitioners working together with Fay as Matanga Oranga: Kaupapa Māori Trauma-Informed Care Centre in West Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. In this article, we review what has been written about Black Rain so far before gathering the team to kōrero (converse) about the key elements we are discovering are crucial for the success of our mahi (work): tikanga (cultural practice and protocols), wairuatanga (spirituality), and grounding the work in whanonga pono (values).</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288402","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":"Living As If We All Mattered: Kinship and Other Gifts in Community","authors":"Catherine Richardson Kineweskwêw,&nbsp;Christopher Iwestel Kinman","doi":"10.1002/anzf.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Living as if we all mattered in a society that does the opposite is an act of resistance. It builds resilience within communities, bringing gifts of relationality. Cathy and Chris are human service workers who aim to transcend the binary of practitioner/patient. Through dignity-centred practice, they engage in the co-construction of a refuge outside petro-capitalism. To centre dignity is to decentre trauma and honour resistance against empire, which seeks to divide and distract. Resistance is a natural response that promotes survival. Their sharings however, drawn from Indigenous knowledge as well as learnings from ecology, extend beyond this sphere. They can also be applied to social justice in learning how to be a good relative and ancestor. Red Elk (2025) tells us that ‘forging healthy relations is essential for the success of future generations’. This includes not only human relations but also all life with whom we share the Earth. By living as if we all matter, we can undermine the forces of empire while building a better world.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288301","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}