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Network News What Distinguishes a Family Therapist? Liz Mackenzie, Val Clark, Adrienne Wills, Janet Roth, Harvey Miller and Janine Mahoney, edited by Jane Chapman Introduction What distinguishes a family therapist? Liz Mackenzie has the image of an orienteer armed with maps of different scale and overlapping territories, with cameras and wide angle and microscopic lenses, perhaps wondering what he/she is doing there, but feeling no necessity to explain, and aware that it might all be a dream, or a virtual reality, anyway. Has this gathering from further afield helped family therapy retain a life, rather than fossilising? Is this process what keeps the body healthy, supple, with style and character? How appropriate is the name? What is the nature and meaning of the ‘changing face’? What is the place of the individual, of political responsibility, of social action, in thinking and practice? What is the role and place of a National Association? What is the viability of accreditation, and what might the process be? What constitutes an ethical base for the discipline? These are issues of identity. Family therapy claims an identity in the exploration of ‘relationship’ and ‘context’. Perhaps therefore, its distinguishing characteristics can be found in an exploration http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Wiley
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1998 The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.1998.tb00330.x
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What Distinguishes a Family Therapist? Liz Mackenzie, Val Clark, Adrienne Wills, Janet Roth, Harvey Miller and Janine Mahoney, edited by Jane Chapman Introduction What distinguishes a family therapist? Liz Mackenzie has the image of an orienteer armed with maps of different scale and overlapping territories, with cameras and wide angle and microscopic lenses, perhaps wondering what he/she is doing there, but feeling no necessity to explain, and aware that it might all be a dream, or a virtual reality, anyway. Has this gathering from further afield helped family therapy retain a life, rather than fossilising? Is this process what keeps the body healthy, supple, with style and character? How appropriate is the name? What is the nature and meaning of the ‘changing face’? What is the place of the individual, of political responsibility, of social action, in thinking and practice? What is the role and place of a National Association? What is the viability of accreditation, and what might the process be? What constitutes an ethical base for the discipline? These are issues of identity. Family therapy claims an identity in the exploration of ‘relationship’ and ‘context’. Perhaps therefore, its distinguishing characteristics can be found in an exploration

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Published: Sep 1, 1998

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