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The reflecting (R.T.) team is examined within its theoretical, therapeutic and training contexts. A distinction is made between the reflecting team technique (R.T.T.) and the reflecting team process (R.T.P.), in order to explore whether or not the practice of team reflection is consistent with the requirements of the second order family therapies, the theoretical development which supported the R.T.'s emergence and subsequent popularity.The critique of the R.T.P. suggests that although this therapeutic process does represent attempts towards increasing acceptance of complexity, reduced attempts to control, collaboration, interconnectedness and contextual respect, there is little room for complacency either theoretically or practically.

ISSN:0814-723X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb00999.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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Pointing the name “Mentally Ill” at people in our midst has led to some unfairly dire consequences for their lives and their families. These include: forced extrusion, separation and disconnection from their families; incarceration in remote gulags, where they may be vulnerable to physical, emotional or sexual abuse; being stigmatised and sequestered as unmarriageable moral lepers; and being dispossessed of their full humanity, through loss of their identities as people, their everyday human rights and their entitlement to full membership of their own local communities. We mental health professionals have colluded in the systematic colonising of the “mentally ill” by becoming their politically anointed custodians or foster families “for their own good”. In the process, we have inadvertently broken their spirits, disempowered them and their families, and deskilled the community from knowing how to look after their own. Aboriginal and Maori people have had to contend with this on more than one front; not only have they been dispossessed by white society but also they have often been dispossessed of appropriate and effective mental health care. It is time that all service users reclaimed title to their own mental health territory.Well, here is the news:Firstly, the consumers are coming, they are after us, and so are their families. They are challenging our descriptions, our practices and our presumptuous ownership of their lives, and settling out of court with us for joint custody will soon be unacceptable to them.Secondly, evidence is emerging that many traditional cultural dimensions of healing may well contribute to better outcomes for those with the most severe psychiatric careers or disabilities, and their families.Thirdly, these political and cultural developments are compatible with converging evidence of the best clinical practice in comprehensive local mental health services.So there is no need for professional defensiveness, or for war to be declared between idealised notions of traditional culture and modern technology. The bottom line here is that we need both to talk to each other, to synergise the effects of the best of both, just as we need service users, families providers, health management, and local communities to engage each other in “seeking common ground”. De‐colonising of the mentally ill, like the dismantling of apartheid, is not without its dangers of backlash. But with an orderly transition of power it could be mutually rewarding, and may well signal a renewal and rebirth of the more

ISSN:0814-723X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01000.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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In her recent bookFire With Fire,Naomi Wolf (1993) argues that contemporary feminism has, for a number of reasons, alienated many women and consequently needs to change direction. Wolf claims that the time is ripe for change as the socio‐political context is now sufficiently different for women to claim the power, status and authority which is rightfully ours. Her analysis of women's power turns on her notions of victim feminism and power feminism, the former being an unnecessary and unhelpful stance for women to take, while the latter is, for Wolf, the most effective way to bring about enduring changes for women. In this article, I will explore these ideas and their relevance for our work with women, especially those women who have been physically emotionally and/or sexually abused. My aim is to highlight the complexities in the lives and experiences of such women, and to discuss both the applicationsandlimitations of Wolf's ideas about women's powe

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DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01001.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01002.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Harlene Anderson is director of the Houston Galveston Institute. With her late colleague Harry Goolishian she challenged family therapy theory, proposing that as therapists we consider theoretical metaphors based on language and social constructionism, and in effect has moved family therapy in a new direction.The physical and conversational context of interview was the Lofoten Islands, 300 km inside the Arctic circle, Far Northern Norway on the night after Mid Summer's Night, 24th June 1993. Tom Andersen was the host for several days to a gathering calledConstructed Realities; Therapy Theory and Research.The aim of the gathering was to explore the concept of Knowledge in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, teaching and social work. The focus was to provide a bridge between the ‘practical’ and the ‘theoretical’ discourses around knowledge and the creation of the knowledge. There were eight main issues around which the conversations revolved—1) Knowledge: One or Many? 2) Multiple Realities and the Therapeutic Process 3) Human Understanding 4) Language and the Construction of Self 5) Research Alternatives 6) Qualitative Research in Clinical Work 7) Feminist Issues in Theory and Research 8) Power, Ethics and Practice. Harlene Andersen has written extensively on many of these subjects taking a constructivist position and was central to the numerous conversations. She was also one of the prime movers in putting together such a challenging and multi‐disciplinary conversation.In conjunction with Harry Goolishian, Harlene Andersen has proposed that what we call ‘problems' are created in language and are dissolved in language. Her interests are in the multiple realities that come to an intersection in a therapeutic conversation and how a therapist can engage with a client to open the possibility for the client to create and find some changes in his/her life. She takes the position that in order for a therapist to be helpful to his/her client, conversational space needs to be created that makes room for the exploration of the client's beliefs and realities. An essential element in this process of creating conversational space is the therapist taking a position of not knowing, of uncertainty, of exploring and making room for the client to talk about what is important for him/her to talk about and not for the therapist to lead from a position of knowing what is best for the client.Harlene Andersen is regarded as a leading theorist and clinician in the therapeutic community who is exploring the broad concept of therapy as a collaborative process at many levels. She is one of the major presenters at the forthcomingNew Voices in Human Systemsconference hosted by Lynn Hoffman in Northampton, Massachusetts in

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DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01003.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01004.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01005.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0814-723X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01006.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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Book reviewed in this article:CHILDHOOD ONSET ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND RELATED EATING DISORDERSBrian Lask and Rachel Bryant‐Waugh (eds.).REWRITING LOVE STORIES: Brief Marital Therapy. Patricia O'Hanlon Hudson and William Hudson O'Hanlon.HEARING THE CRY. Suicide Prevention: What to Look for, What to Do, Where to go. Margaret Appleby and Margaret Condonis. Narellan, NSW. Tony Wolf&Son PrintersRESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; A COOPERATIVE, COMPETENCY‐BASED APPROACH TO THERAPY AND PROGRAM DESIGN. Michael Durr

ISSN:0814-723X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01007.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0814-723X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb00998.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY