ANZJFT Volume 21 Number 1
March 2000Contents
| President's Report | Brian Stagoll |
| Editorial - Beyond the Father Wound? | |
| Mara Selvini: Obituary | Brian Cade |
| Working With Adolescents And Children Who Have Committed Sex Offences | Wendy Bunston |
| Nicholas Teaches Us About Leaving | Lyndon Walker |
| Beyond The Father Wound: Memory-Work And The Deconstruction Of The Father-son Relationship | Bob Pease |
| 'Innovation should not be Treason': Domestic Violence Interventions | Robin Wileman |
| Feminism and Beyond: Interview with Carolyn Quadrio | Kasia Kozlowska |
| Finding the Words in Therapeutic Stories with Children: How Can You Tell when a Goldfish Cries? | Jim Wilson |
| Focusing on Solutions through Art: A Case Study | Kathleen Mooney |
| Therapeutic Maps For Therapeutic Mazes: The "Time Sphere" as an Interventive Mapping of Family Movements in Context | Jan Evans |
| Network News: State News, Conference Reports | |
| Letter | |
| Family Award List of Books Useful for Therapists | |
| Reviews |
Abstracts & Sample Articles
Working With Adolescents And Children Who Have Committed Sex Offences
by Wendy BunstonView article. [PDF format - 153KB]
Young people are capable of committing serious sexual offences against their siblings, other young people, and adults. This paper defines adolescent sexual offending, explores assessment and treatment approaches, and examines the role of family therapy. Its aim is to encourage family therapists to acknowledge the existence of sex offending behaviours amongst our young and to become more informed about how to respond therapeutically to this complex issue.
Nicholas Teaches Us About Leaving
by Lyndon WalkerView article. [PDF format - 29KB]
Beyond The Father Wound: Memory-Work And The Deconstruction Of The Father-son Relationship
by Bob PeaseView article. [PDF format - 157KB]
This article examines how profeminist men in a collaborative inquiry group used memory-work to make sense of their experiences of discontent with their fathers. It challenges the current conceptualisation of this dissatisfaction with fathers as 'the father wound' and the emphasis on encouraging men to forgive their fathers unilaterally for what they have done. The article also challenges the view that boys need to identify with their fathers to establish their gender identity and suggests that sons can construct their masculine subjectivity through dis-identification with patriarchal fathers and through empathy with the experiences of their mothers.
'Innovation should not be Treason': Domestic Violence Interventions
by Robin WilemanView article. [PDF format - 154KB]
The deterministic ideology of political correctness which sanctions particular interventions permissible to use in domestic violence situations has not only thwarted creativity in the therapeutic field and ignored the interactional aspects of these complex relationships and the inherent opportunities for positive change, but has placed many women victims in danger unnecessarily. It is time to challenge simplistic models of domestic violence and develop feminist-sensitive multiple approaches to this serious and complex social problem.
Feminism and Beyond: Interview with Carolyn Quadrio
by Kasia KozlowskaView article. [PDF format - 246KB]
In interview with Kasia Kozlowska, Melbourne-born psychiatrist Carolyn Quadrio describes the impact of growing up in a Greek migrant family, the significant influences on her choice of profession, and the ways in which she gradually developed a feminist position simultaneously with embracing a systemic perspective on 'depression' and other diagnostic categories. Quadrio talks frankly about her challenges to the male-dominated psychiatric establishment, her struggles to get her critique of it published, her excitement about the family therapy field, and her later disillusionment with it. Her current work is in the area of forensic psychiatry.
Finding the Words in Therapeutic Stories with Children: How Can You Tell when a Goldfish Cries?
by Jim WilsonView article. [PDF format - 165KB]
Stories provide one way to say the unspeakable. Drawing on systemic, constructionist and narrative ideas, this paper offers a commentary upon the development of a therapeutic story for a seven year old child and her mother.
Focusing on Solutions through Art: A Case Study
by Kathleen MooneyView article. [PDF format - 225KB]
The author integrates solution-focused therapy with art therapy in a way that is most suitable for young children between the ages of six and thirteen and has proven especially helpful in the school environment. The methods developed are exemplified in a case study of a boy at the ages of nine and eleven. The art functions as a medium for conversation, an avenue for the expression of strong feeling, concretises reframes, makes metaphors visual, enhances exceptions, externalises the problem and makes solutions real.
Therapeutic Maps For Therapeutic Mazes: The "Time Sphere" as an Interventive Mapping of Family Movements in Context
by Jan EvansIn this paper I want to describe the use of a technique which I have termed the 'Time Sphere'. The combination of a life cycle model with the chronological mapping of closeness[n]distance has allowed for useful consideration of various relational events not previously explored by the family or therapist. By sharing the information visually with the client family we are able to explore context, family of origin influences and life cycle transitions within an extended family model. Ultimately my hope is to develop this model further as a creative means of exploring how family patterns and relationships are repeated, and how context is ultimately the key to understanding. To preserve confidentiality, my 'case' is an amalgam of several real client families.
Network News: State News, Conference Reports
View article. [PDF format - 154KB]