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Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements

Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements ‘Dealing with Grief and Loss [in Children and Adolescents] Using Expressive Therapies’. This is one of three workshops in Sydney which the ACER Professional Development Unit is sponsoring this year, to be run by Mark and Helen. Contact ACER: ph + 61 3 9835 7403. Helen Pavlin joins the Journal Team as Associate Editor. In addition to her work as an assessor, Helen will assist in preparing some manuscripts for publication. Although a very experienced assessor, Helen is a relative newcomer to the world of emailing and attached files! Des Casey, whose paper ‘Therapy and Ecology’ appears in this issue, now runs workshops designed to assist businesses, organisations and community groups to become more environmentally aware. Go to his website www.sustainablesystems.co.nz for further information. Des still maintains his private practice as a therapist in Auckland. Adelaide’s Collaborative Outcomes Research Project members are consumers and service providers at Southern CAMHS. Their paper ‘Coresearching Consumer Experiences of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Reflections and Applications’ by Anna Byas, Deby Hills, Carole Meech, Lorraine Read, Kathleen Stacey, Elaine Thompson and Andrew Wood appeared in Families Systems & Health, 20, 1 (2002). This paper outlines, reflects on and critiques the team’s experience of doing collaborative research. We hope to see a second paper, which describes the research outcomes in detail, appear in 2003. ‘ … some of the most influential family therapy journals such as Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy’, write D. Russell Crane and McArthur Hafen Jr. in ‘Meeting the Needs of Evidence-based Practice in Family Therapy’ (Journal of Family Therapy, 24: 114). Influential? We have a long way to go. One measure of this is Ivan Eisler’s comment that ‘outside of family therapy the knowledge of [our outcome] research … is poor’ (Eisler in “Comment”, Journal of Family Therapy, 24: 129). Next time a client needs a referral in Christchurch, remember Victoria Therapy Centre: Te Raukura, Victoria Square, 208 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch, NZ. Ph + 64 3 379 7817; fax + 61 3 379 6747. The agency offers a full range of services. The staff includes people and faces familiar to conference goers in the ‘West Island’, Rosemary Smart and Bruce McNatty (who is also a clinical member of the Victorian Association of Family Therapists). Going against the trend for family therapists to return to their original qualifications when describing themselves, Brian Stagoll recently was described as ‘Family Therapist’, at the foot of his review of Roy Porter’s Madness: A Brief History in Readings® Books and Music Monthly, May 2002. Thank you, Brian. Bruce Hart, who took initiative and lobbied the Journal Board to set up a website, has now stepped down from his role of Online Editor, Coordinator of the Discussion Page, and Associate Editor. We thank Bruce for his hard work, which has helped to raise the profile of the ANZJFT, and has made it possible to subscribe online. He is now working with Jan Riley on the VAFT website. We have arranged for an IT expert to update www.anzjft.com, and apologise to those who have been frustrated by the site’s failure to advertise the Hobart conference. Our new Discussion Page Coordinator is Maria Nichterlein. Ivan Eisler is Editor Elect of the Journal of Family Therapy, and will follow Eddy Street as Editor. Ivan is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London. Read his paper ‘Comment — The Scientific Practitioner and Family Therapy: A Way Forward, a Strait-Jacket or a Distraction?’ ii ANZJFT September 2002 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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2002 Australian Association of Family Therapy
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‘Dealing with Grief and Loss [in Children and Adolescents] Using Expressive Therapies’. This is one of three workshops in Sydney which the ACER Professional Development Unit is sponsoring this year, to be run by Mark and Helen. Contact ACER: ph + 61 3 9835 7403. Helen Pavlin joins the Journal Team as Associate Editor. In addition to her work as an assessor, Helen will assist in preparing some manuscripts for publication. Although a very experienced assessor, Helen is a relative newcomer to the world of emailing and attached files! Des Casey, whose paper ‘Therapy and Ecology’ appears in this issue, now runs workshops designed to assist businesses, organisations and community groups to become more environmentally aware. Go to his website www.sustainablesystems.co.nz for further information. Des still maintains his private practice as a therapist in Auckland. Adelaide’s Collaborative Outcomes Research Project members are consumers and service providers at Southern CAMHS. Their paper ‘Coresearching Consumer Experiences of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Reflections and Applications’ by Anna Byas, Deby Hills, Carole Meech, Lorraine Read, Kathleen Stacey, Elaine Thompson and Andrew Wood appeared in Families Systems & Health, 20, 1 (2002). This paper outlines, reflects on and critiques the team’s experience of doing collaborative research. We hope to see a second paper, which describes the research outcomes in detail, appear in 2003. ‘ … some of the most influential family therapy journals such as Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy’, write D. Russell Crane and McArthur Hafen Jr. in ‘Meeting the Needs of Evidence-based Practice in Family Therapy’ (Journal of Family Therapy, 24: 114). Influential? We have a long way to go. One measure of this is Ivan Eisler’s comment that ‘outside of family therapy the knowledge of [our outcome] research … is poor’ (Eisler in “Comment”, Journal of Family Therapy, 24: 129). Next time a client needs a referral in Christchurch, remember Victoria Therapy Centre: Te Raukura, Victoria Square, 208 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch, NZ. Ph + 64 3 379 7817; fax + 61 3 379 6747. The agency offers a full range of services. The staff includes people and faces familiar to conference goers in the ‘West Island’, Rosemary Smart and Bruce McNatty (who is also a clinical member of the Victorian Association of Family Therapists). Going against the trend for family therapists to return to their original qualifications when describing themselves, Brian Stagoll recently was described as ‘Family Therapist’, at the foot of his review of Roy Porter’s Madness: A Brief History in Readings® Books and Music Monthly, May 2002. Thank you, Brian. Bruce Hart, who took initiative and lobbied the Journal Board to set up a website, has now stepped down from his role of Online Editor, Coordinator of the Discussion Page, and Associate Editor. We thank Bruce for his hard work, which has helped to raise the profile of the ANZJFT, and has made it possible to subscribe online. He is now working with Jan Riley on the VAFT website. We have arranged for an IT expert to update www.anzjft.com, and apologise to those who have been frustrated by the site’s failure to advertise the Hobart conference. Our new Discussion Page Coordinator is Maria Nichterlein. Ivan Eisler is Editor Elect of the Journal of Family Therapy, and will follow Eddy Street as Editor. Ivan is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London. Read his paper ‘Comment — The Scientific Practitioner and Family Therapy: A Way Forward, a Strait-Jacket or a Distraction?’ ii ANZJFT September 2002

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