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Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements

Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements ments will be described. Day 2, ‘Psychological patterns and psychopathology: The empirical evidence’ surveys the empirical evidence from infancy to adulthood on the DMM. For more information, contact Andrea Caputo, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, phone + 61 2 9845 2005 or e-mail Andreac2@chw.edu.au In this special attachment issue, you will read accounts of inspiring clinical work. However, some therapies for maltreated children invoke the term ‘attachment therapy’, but resort to practices which no readers of this journal would endorse. The ‘Report of the APSAC Task Force on Attachment Therapy, Reactive Attachment Disorder, and Attachment Problems’ by Mark Chaffin et al. (Child Maltreatment, 11, 1 (2006): 76–89) concludes with a list of recommendations. Imagine having to specify that no treatment should include ‘humiliation, withholding or forcing food and water intake [or] prolonged social isolation …’ The University of East London, in conjunction with the Tavistock Clinic, recently presented Carmel Flaskas with an Honorar y Doctorate of Education. Excerpts from the citation, written by Sara Barratt, follow: “Carmel is an Australian Family Therapist and Social Worker who has, in the past 15 years, written core texts which have been crucial to the developing theories of systemic psychotherapy … Carmel’s ideas are the ideas of someone who is prepared to sit in the middle of the muddle that is life and to try to help people bring forth something optimistic and new from the different theoretical perspectives at her disposal.’ We offer Carmel our delighted congratulations! John Kaye of Adelaide, who is on this journal’s list of assessors, is co-author of ‘Asylum Seekers, Therapy and Ethics’ in the International Journal of Critical Psychology Vol. 16. The volume is entitled White Terror/Post Empire, and is edited by Damien Riggs and Lorraine Johnson Riordan. John also has a chapter ‘Psy No More: Towards a Noniatrogenic Psychotherapy’ in Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling edited by Yvonne Bates and Richard House, published by PCCS Books in 2003. Colin MacKenzie, who has been involved with the journal from its outset, as subscriber, Board member, Network News correspondent and author, is now in busy retirement in Launceston (still giving feedback to the editors!). He wrote recently: ‘One of my hobbies is bookbinding, at which I am a complete amateur, but I have it in mind to bind my sets of journals, and I wondered if there was a way of accessing the great design that is on the cover, as I’d like to somehow incorporate it either on the endpapers or even, if I can find a way and I have the tools, resources and skill, on the outside covers.’ Everyone who contributes (or has contributed) to the journal should take a bow! No need to reinvent the wheel and write this yourself — ‘Systemic Family Therapy Outcomes’ by Peter Stratton, is located at www.aft.org.uk. Find the link to this paper in the right hand column of the home page. The Association for Family Therapy in the UK would like all of us to use this report to convince administrators of the worth of what we do. ‘Despite the common idea that fee affects outcome, the body of research and the present study suggest otherwise’— this is the verdict of David B. Ward and Eric E. McCollum, in ‘ Treatment Effectiveness and Its Correlates in a Marriage and Family Therapy Training Clinic’ (American Journal of Family Therapy, (2005), 33: 207–223). ii http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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2006 Australian Association of Family Therapy
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ments will be described. Day 2, ‘Psychological patterns and psychopathology: The empirical evidence’ surveys the empirical evidence from infancy to adulthood on the DMM. For more information, contact Andrea Caputo, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, phone + 61 2 9845 2005 or e-mail Andreac2@chw.edu.au In this special attachment issue, you will read accounts of inspiring clinical work. However, some therapies for maltreated children invoke the term ‘attachment therapy’, but resort to practices which no readers of this journal would endorse. The ‘Report of the APSAC Task Force on Attachment Therapy, Reactive Attachment Disorder, and Attachment Problems’ by Mark Chaffin et al. (Child Maltreatment, 11, 1 (2006): 76–89) concludes with a list of recommendations. Imagine having to specify that no treatment should include ‘humiliation, withholding or forcing food and water intake [or] prolonged social isolation …’ The University of East London, in conjunction with the Tavistock Clinic, recently presented Carmel Flaskas with an Honorar y Doctorate of Education. Excerpts from the citation, written by Sara Barratt, follow: “Carmel is an Australian Family Therapist and Social Worker who has, in the past 15 years, written core texts which have been crucial to the developing theories of systemic psychotherapy … Carmel’s ideas are the ideas of someone who is prepared to sit in the middle of the muddle that is life and to try to help people bring forth something optimistic and new from the different theoretical perspectives at her disposal.’ We offer Carmel our delighted congratulations! John Kaye of Adelaide, who is on this journal’s list of assessors, is co-author of ‘Asylum Seekers, Therapy and Ethics’ in the International Journal of Critical Psychology Vol. 16. The volume is entitled White Terror/Post Empire, and is edited by Damien Riggs and Lorraine Johnson Riordan. John also has a chapter ‘Psy No More: Towards a Noniatrogenic Psychotherapy’ in Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling edited by Yvonne Bates and Richard House, published by PCCS Books in 2003. Colin MacKenzie, who has been involved with the journal from its outset, as subscriber, Board member, Network News correspondent and author, is now in busy retirement in Launceston (still giving feedback to the editors!). He wrote recently: ‘One of my hobbies is bookbinding, at which I am a complete amateur, but I have it in mind to bind my sets of journals, and I wondered if there was a way of accessing the great design that is on the cover, as I’d like to somehow incorporate it either on the endpapers or even, if I can find a way and I have the tools, resources and skill, on the outside covers.’ Everyone who contributes (or has contributed) to the journal should take a bow! No need to reinvent the wheel and write this yourself — ‘Systemic Family Therapy Outcomes’ by Peter Stratton, is located at www.aft.org.uk. Find the link to this paper in the right hand column of the home page. The Association for Family Therapy in the UK would like all of us to use this report to convince administrators of the worth of what we do. ‘Despite the common idea that fee affects outcome, the body of research and the present study suggest otherwise’— this is the verdict of David B. Ward and Eric E. McCollum, in ‘ Treatment Effectiveness and Its Correlates in a Marriage and Family Therapy Training Clinic’ (American Journal of Family Therapy, (2005), 33: 207–223). ii

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