ANZJFT Volume 20 Number 4
December 1999Contents
| Peter McCallum 1943-1999: Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Family Therapist | Sophie Holmes, Moshe Lang |
| Editorial: Families 999AD, 1999AD | Maureen Crago, Hugh Crago |
| The Role Of Empathy in Brief Therapy: The Overlooked but Vital Context | Andrew Turnell, Eve Lipchik |
| Single Session Interventions: An Example of Clinical Research in Practice | Alistair Campbell |
| The Place of Single Session Family Consultations: Five Years'' Experience in Canberra | Ralph Hampson, Josephine O'Hanlon, Annie Franklin, Margaret Pentony, Lev Fridgant, Terry Heins |
| Possibilities Might Be More Encompassing than Solutions: An Interview with Bill O''Hanlon | J?rgen Hargens |
| If the Map is not the Territory, Then What is This? | Graham Tuson |
| A Figurative Response to Tuson | Glenn Larner |
| Training Police Liaison Officers in Zimbabwe | Eunice Muzenda |
| An Australian Response | Geoff Dean |
| Family Therapy is Just One Option | Wendy Foote |
| From Thesis to Journal Article | Hugh Crago |
| Letter | David Bailey |
| State News, conference reports, Letter from Germany (J?rgen Hargens) Letter from Northern Ireland (Isobel Reilly) | |
| Reviews |
Abstracts & Sample Articles
Editorial: Families 999AD, 1999AD
by Maureen Crago, Hugh CragoView article. [PDF format - 58KB]
The Role Of Empathy in Brief Therapy: The Overlooked but Vital Context
by Andrew Turnell, Eve LipchikBrief therapy is widely perceived to be a very technique oriented and outcome focused endeavour, with limited interest in the fluidity of the relationship between the therapist and client. This perception exists despite the absolute priority brief therapy has always placed on building a cooperative relationship between therapist and client. Certainly, the brief therapy tradition has almost completely avoided talking about 'empathy' and the emotional realm, almost as if it is inappropriate for a brief therapist to discuss them. This paper suggests firstly that brief therapy is enhanced, rather than diminished, by engaging with both empathy and affect, and secondly, that the conception and practice of empathy can itself be enhanced by the rich tradition of skills and experience that brief therapy offers. Case material is used throughout this paper to illustrate the authors' views.
Single Session Interventions: An Example of Clinical Research in Practice
by Alistair CampbellView article. [PDF format - 209KB]
Single session consultations seem to be an efficient and effective way of providing therapeutic interventions at a time of increasing demands for services and shrinking resources. Though 'one-off' consultations have a long clinical history, specific interest in their use was sparked by Talmon's (1990) observation that 78% of his clients who had had only one consultation had experienced improvement in their presenting problems. Several Australian studies have supported Talmon's advocacy of this approach (Boyhan, 1996; Hampson, O'Hanlon, Pentony and Cramby, 1994; Price, 1994) but have significant methodological flaws. The present study used a pre[n]post methodology to assess the effectiveness of single session interventions and explored whether family dynamics impacted on changes in the presenting problem and in level of coping. The results indicated significant changes in both. Family pride or morale was identified as a major factor in positive response to the interventions. The implications for the use of single sessions and for further clinically based research are discussed.
The Place of Single Session Family Consultations: Five Years'' Experience in Canberra
by Ralph Hampson, Josephine O'Hanlon, Annie Franklin, Margaret Pentony, Lev Fridgant, Terry HeinsOpen Day, in the form of two half day single session family clinics, has operated weekly in the ACT Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service since April 1993 and over a thousand families have been seen. Clinicians are often resistant to the concept of single sessions and frequently overestimate the amount of assistance that clients feel they require. However in an era of sharply increasing demand for services, selective use of single family sessions for milder problems, screened by a telephone intake process, has value to both families and workers. Telephone follow-ups of 100 families in 1994 and 70 families in 1996 found that single session family interviews were well accepted by the large majority of families seen. Clinicians see the program as reducing pressure from clients for early attention, enhancing client motivation when seen at crisis times, providing readily available consultation support from peers, increasing learning opportunities and building inter-disciplinary team work.
Possibilities Might Be More Encompassing than Solutions: An Interview with Bill O''Hanlon
by J?rgen HargensBill O'Hanlon has authored or co-authored seventeen books, including Taproots; Solution-Oriented Hypnosis; An Uncommon Casebook; Shifting Contexts; Rewriting Love Stories. He has published 32 articles or book chapters. Bill has produced or co-produced two computer programs and several audiotapes and videotapes about therapy. His books have been widely translated. He is co-editor of The Journal of Collaborative Therapies and is on the advisory board of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. He says that his teaching 'may cause severe disruption to old beliefs and unhelpful patterns and you may have no place to go but toward the life that has been your heart's and soul's desire'.
If the Map is not the Territory, Then What is This?
by Graham TusonThis paper discusses the influence of figuration in the constitutive discourse of the family therapy movement. In particular it focuses closely on the figurative use of Russell's Theory of Logical Types. A deconstructive reading of the movement's theoretical grounding in this family of figuration is undertaken, based on Wittgenstein's response to the Theory of Types. The essay concludes with some implications for how practice is understood.
Training Police Liaison Officers in Zimbabwe
by Eunice MuzendaBefore independence, the Zimbabwe Republic police force worked in a Law and Order approach. After independence, policing was to involve popular participation. Community Relations Liaison Officers were trained in systemic counselling skills to equip them for the work. Case vignettes show both the challenges and police response.
Family Therapy is Just One Option
by Wendy FooteView article. [PDF format - 138KB]
I trace my development as a family therapist from being a single model worker in systemic family therapy to a more eclectic approach. The context of my work is children's services and private practice. Failure to appreciate when one method of therapy is more suitable than another can lead to family therapy being applied when it is not indicated. The dangers in such mistakes and a lack of careful assessment that includes the 'feeling state' of the therapist are illustrated by case vignettes. A possible effect of some therapy techniques is to create a 'distance' from clients and to shield the therapist from their emotional distress. I outline situations where I would not use family therapy
From Thesis to Journal Article
by Hugh CragoThis <a href="/pages/getting_published.php">article</a> is published in full on the web site.<br />
