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Couples conflict and change: social work with marital relationships
- Authors:
- JAMES Adrian L., WILSON Kate
- Publisher:
- Tavistock
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 241p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Making time for dads
- Author:
- LILLEY Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Every Child Journal, 3(1), 2013, pp.26-32.
- Publisher:
- Imaginative Minds
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
There is a perception that a UK child who has parents with mental health problems has little help available. My Time CIC is a Birmingham based community social enterprise that is owned by its service users and local community stakeholders. It is a bespoke professional mental health service that focuses on the needs of the individual and family; it is a holistic and complete service that offers a range of therapeutic services from short-term depression to longer-term problems. My Time was established in 2002 by single parent dad of three Michael Lilley. In this article he discusses the reasons for starting the enterprise, and highlights many of the benefits it offers, particularly to fathers who receive very little in the way of support.
Counselling families with mentally ill
- Author:
- ANURADHA K.
- Journal article citation:
- Indian Journal of Social Work, 64(2), April 2003, pp.159-166.
- Publisher:
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences
The author outlines the purpose and goals for counselling families with members who are mentally ill. The skills required by a family counsellor for such purposes are also given. The author recommends a four phased approach to counsel and empower families with members who have mental health problems.
When trauma goes on
- Author:
- MURPHY Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 10(2), April 2004, pp.185-191.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Supporting the needs of those affected by the conflict in Northern Ireland requires more than just a clinical consideration of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Describes the approach employed by the NOVA service in helping people manage the impacts of specific and continuous traumas.
Pressure points
- Author:
- MIDGLEY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- People Management, 10.7.97, 1997, pp.36-37,39.
Although it has become a fashionable topic, the stress of working life is undeniably taking its toll on employees and costing employers a lot of money. This article reports on attempts to tackle both the symptoms and the causes.
Family therapy
- Author:
- ASEN Eia
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 25, April 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Reviews the history of family therapy and considers the main theoretical concerns.
Searching for a better story: harnessing modern and postmodern positions in family therapy
- Author:
- POCOCK David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 17(2), May 1995, pp.149-173.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Argues that modern and postmodern positions on reality and knowledge should not create a theoretical division in family therapy and that rather, by harnessing the two together, each may restrain the other. This combination creates the potential for drawing widely from the whole field of family therapy as well as challenging the separation of mainstream family therapy models from psychoanalysis. The concept of better story is used to replace both the polarized modern position of an objective discoverable truth and the polarized postmodern position of all stories have equal validity. It is suggested that better stories, which evolve in the meeting of family and therapist, may include those which are more congruent, object-adequate, encompassing, holding, shared, emotional, conscious, just, provisional and hopeful.
Of families and other cultures: the shifting paradigm of family therapy
- Author:
- PARE David A.
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 34(1), March 1995, pp.1-19.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
... postmodernism's social constructionist learnings give primacy to meaning, interpretation, and the intersubjectivity of knowledge (epistemology). Thus, the metaphor of the family as a system is gradually being subsumed by a metaphor that construes families as interpretive communities, or storying cultures. It is suggested that his largely implicit transformation be made explicit implications of the new
How supervision relates to families from ethnic minorities
- Author:
- JUSTICE P.
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling, 1(1), February 1990, pp.13-14.
Describes some aspects of supervision of Parent Advisers to families with children with special needs in Tower Hamlets.
Easing the trauma of divorce
- Author:
- MARRATT Moyette
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.1.90, 1990, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Custody and access arrangements can add to the already painful experience of divorce - Barnardo's runs two conciliation projects in Liverpool and Tonbridge Wells to counsel families undergoing this process.