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Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements

Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements In Brief Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements to be an Effective Group Facilitator’ (21 November, @ $254.00, GST included). For further information, contact Ph. + 61 8 9288 2288, or corporate@centrecare.com.au or www. centrecarecorporatecom.au Glenn Larner has been invited to Belgium by Peter Rober, who offered to arrange sponsorship. Glenn’s tour will include presentations at KCC in London, for Bertrando in Turin, and three days of workshops in Northumbria kindly arranged by expat Jeanette Neden who runs the family therapy course at the university. The tour will take in Dublin with Jim Sheean, Belfast with Isobel Reilly, and the IFTA/EFTA conference in Glasgow. Alistair Campbell drew our attention to research networks in 2004, in ‘How a Practice-Based Research Network Might Work’, ANZJFT, 25, 1: 52–54. For an example of such an approach, read ‘Brief Strategic Family Therapy: Lessons Learned in Efficacy Research and Challenges to Blending Research and Practice’, Family Process, 45, 2 (2006): 259–271, by D. A. Sanisteban, L. Suarez-Morales, M. S. Robbins and J. Szapocnik. The authors give valuable insights into their process. Andrew Fuller identified himself as ‘psychologist and family therapist’ when he spoke about ‘Tricky Kids’ on ABC 702 Mornings. If you haven’t read his paper from ANZJFT, 25, 4: 177–182, ‘Crisis: Home-Based Family Therapy’, you will find it on our website, www.anzjft.com How well does your training program stand up to the scrutiny of male trainees? Brent A. Taylor conducted an online survey of male masters and doctoral students in MFT training in the US. Thirty-eight students (ranging from 23 to 62 years) participated from 11 states, able to say what they dared not say in their programs. For instance ‘I know the politically correct way of doing relational therapy (to get men to open up or be more like women), but I’m not sure it’s okay to challenge women to be better problem solvers or to control their emotions more effectively …’ (The American Journal of Family Therapy, 34: 263–277, 2006). To bring fresh ideas to supervision, read Sigurd Reimers’ ‘Family Therapy by Default: Developing Useful Fall-back Positions for Therapists’, Journal of Family Therapy, 28, 3: 229–245. Reimers posits that we all have fall-back positions, and recommends that we analyse them to be sure they are helpful. With the sort of courage unlikely to find support in Australian family therapy, Russell Haber and Lita Hawley illustrate a process in which supervisees can invite family of origin members into a supervision session to deal with the supervisee’s professional dilemma (e.g. difficulty with angry clients), to achieve a ‘more flexible use of self ’. Haber and Hawley’s paper ‘Family of Origin as a Supervisory Consultative Resource’ appears in Family Process, 43, 3 (2004): 373–389. 26–29 March 2008, the 16th World Family Therapy Congress auspiced by the International Family Therapy Association will be held in Porto, Portugal. The theme is ‘Transformation and Globalization: Family Therapy in the 21st Century’. The deadline for abstracts is October 31, 2007 and all abstracts must be submitted online at www.paragon-conventions.com/ifta2008 4–6 October 2007, the EFTA/AFT Conference, ‘Beyond Oppositions: Families, Communities, Cultures’ will be held in Glasgow. Each day has a theme, as follows: ‘Mind and Body’, ‘Self and System’, and ‘Cultural Integration and Differentiation’. Check AFT’s website at www.aft.org.uk Have you been aware of the sudden and rapid thinning of the ranks of our family therapy pioneers? Gianfranco Cecchin died in 2004, then Steve de Shazer in 2005, followed by Ivan Bozormenyi-Nagy and Lyman Wynne in 2006. Then Insoo Kim Berg in January 2007, and, more recently, Jay Haley, Paul Watzlawick and Tom Andersen within a few weeks of each other. Brian Cade and Rick Whiteside have been passing on the sad news to the ANZJFT. Centrecare Corporate offers courses on a variety of topics, for example ‘Issues in Family Dispute Resolution’ (October 30–31, @ $396.00, GST included), ‘Dealing with Challenging Clients’ (half day, October 24, @ $154.00, GST included), and ‘How ANZJFT June 2007 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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2007 Australian Association of Family Therapy
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0814-723X
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1467-8438
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10.1375/anft.28.3.170
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In Brief Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements to be an Effective Group Facilitator’ (21 November, @ $254.00, GST included). For further information, contact Ph. + 61 8 9288 2288, or corporate@centrecare.com.au or www. centrecarecorporatecom.au Glenn Larner has been invited to Belgium by Peter Rober, who offered to arrange sponsorship. Glenn’s tour will include presentations at KCC in London, for Bertrando in Turin, and three days of workshops in Northumbria kindly arranged by expat Jeanette Neden who runs the family therapy course at the university. The tour will take in Dublin with Jim Sheean, Belfast with Isobel Reilly, and the IFTA/EFTA conference in Glasgow. Alistair Campbell drew our attention to research networks in 2004, in ‘How a Practice-Based Research Network Might Work’, ANZJFT, 25, 1: 52–54. For an example of such an approach, read ‘Brief Strategic Family Therapy: Lessons Learned in Efficacy Research and Challenges to Blending Research and Practice’, Family Process, 45, 2 (2006): 259–271, by D. A. Sanisteban, L. Suarez-Morales, M. S. Robbins and J. Szapocnik. The authors give valuable insights into their process. Andrew Fuller identified himself as ‘psychologist and family therapist’ when he spoke about ‘Tricky Kids’ on ABC 702 Mornings. If you haven’t read his paper from ANZJFT, 25, 4: 177–182, ‘Crisis: Home-Based Family Therapy’, you will find it on our website, www.anzjft.com How well does your training program stand up to the scrutiny of male trainees? Brent A. Taylor conducted an online survey of male masters and doctoral students in MFT training in the US. Thirty-eight students (ranging from 23 to 62 years) participated from 11 states, able to say what they dared not say in their programs. For instance ‘I know the politically correct way of doing relational therapy (to get men to open up or be more like women), but I’m not sure it’s okay to challenge women to be better problem solvers or to control their emotions more effectively …’ (The American Journal of Family Therapy, 34: 263–277, 2006). To bring fresh ideas to supervision, read Sigurd Reimers’ ‘Family Therapy by Default: Developing Useful Fall-back Positions for Therapists’, Journal of Family Therapy, 28, 3: 229–245. Reimers posits that we all have fall-back positions, and recommends that we analyse them to be sure they are helpful. With the sort of courage unlikely to find support in Australian family therapy, Russell Haber and Lita Hawley illustrate a process in which supervisees can invite family of origin members into a supervision session to deal with the supervisee’s professional dilemma (e.g. difficulty with angry clients), to achieve a ‘more flexible use of self ’. Haber and Hawley’s paper ‘Family of Origin as a Supervisory Consultative Resource’ appears in Family Process, 43, 3 (2004): 373–389. 26–29 March 2008, the 16th World Family Therapy Congress auspiced by the International Family Therapy Association will be held in Porto, Portugal. The theme is ‘Transformation and Globalization: Family Therapy in the 21st Century’. The deadline for abstracts is October 31, 2007 and all abstracts must be submitted online at www.paragon-conventions.com/ifta2008 4–6 October 2007, the EFTA/AFT Conference, ‘Beyond Oppositions: Families, Communities, Cultures’ will be held in Glasgow. Each day has a theme, as follows: ‘Mind and Body’, ‘Self and System’, and ‘Cultural Integration and Differentiation’. Check AFT’s website at www.aft.org.uk Have you been aware of the sudden and rapid thinning of the ranks of our family therapy pioneers? Gianfranco Cecchin died in 2004, then Steve de Shazer in 2005, followed by Ivan Bozormenyi-Nagy and Lyman Wynne in 2006. Then Insoo Kim Berg in January 2007, and, more recently, Jay Haley, Paul Watzlawick and Tom Andersen within a few weeks of each other. Brian Cade and Rick Whiteside have been passing on the sad news to the ANZJFT. Centrecare Corporate offers courses on a variety of topics, for example ‘Issues in Family Dispute Resolution’ (October 30–31, @ $396.00, GST included), ‘Dealing with Challenging Clients’ (half day, October 24, @ $154.00, GST included), and ‘How ANZJFT June 2007

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