Two colleagues and I edited an edition of Context on working with older adults that was published in the autumn. If you want to find out about Context, this link (click here) should go to a page about it. Context is a magazine produced by the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice and I …
I recently went to the Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice conference in Newcastle upon Tyne, held in a hotel with glorious views overlooking the river. What am I going to take away from the conference? I’m afraid that I can only offer a few fragments here. Both days opened with “the story of …
I’ve been undertaking training in non-violent resistance (NVR) with Partnership Projects and recently attended a two day workshop on adult entitled dependency: I wrote a brief blog about NVR in relation to adult children a few months ago (see link here). Adult entitled dependency isn’t a term I like. It refers to adult-children, maybe in …
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I’ve just been to the International Family Therapy Association conference in Aberdeen. I met family and systemic therapists from all round the world and Aberdeen gleamed for us in the sunshine against a clear blue sky for most of the time we were there. It was really hard to decide what to attend – sometimes …
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At the IFTA conference in Aberdeen I also took part in a panel presentation on service integration that brought together an international group of therapists. Preparing and taking part in this was in some ways nostalgic. I’ve been involved in discussions about service integration for years now and I’m not sure that things have improved. …
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It’s funny how things unexpectedly connect. I took part in a webinar on veterans’ health organised by the BMA last year. I suppose I booked it because, as an old age psychiatrist, I don’t remember seeing many veterans. The blurb for the webinar asserted that “most healthcare professionals don’t ask or know if their patient …
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Mental health. What do you understand that to mean? Of course by mental health we often mean mental ill-health: “I’m seeing someone about my mental health”, “he’s an in-patient in a mental health unit”. How come mental health is used to mean mental ill-health? What is that about? People talk about the stigma of mental …
It looks as though the theme this month is reading (and reading about reading!) So here are some of the things I’ve read: 1. The new NICE guideline on Dementia was published in June 2018: Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers. It is likely to lead to more …
I am enthused by an article I read recently in the Journal of Family Therapy. Golan et al’s article (JoFT, 2018, 40: 4-24) is about Non Violent Resistance (NVR) training for parents of young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Regrettably I must confess that I was ignorant of NVR as it developed in relation …
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I’m reflecting on the question of what is “age appropriateness” after reading some papers on young onset dementia (YOD) that use the term. This is what Alastair Burns and esteemed colleagues say in a blog on the subject of tackling the challenges of young onset dementia: “People with YOD have distinctive needs due to their …
