Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the U.K.

Last updated 14.xii.10. Detailed information about the AFT can be found at: http://www.aft.org.uk/

The AFT Email list

I started the AFT Email list early in 1997 at psyctc.sghms.ac.uk then it ran at psyctc.org from early in 1999 to late in 2007. Since then Nick Child has run it on GoogleGroups:
http://groups.google.com/group/AFTList and
http://www.forallthat.com/aft-list-guidelines.html

Halloween Update: 31.x.05
Genograms!

I've mounted a Word template for drawing genograms
written by Tony Farson and Karen Partridge has kindly contributed a wonderful powerpoint template

One small plea: if you have problems using these, please take it up on the list or with the authors, not with me as I'm swamped with work at the moment.

 

Update: 2.ii.05
AFT Email list discussion of papers from the Journal of Family therapy

Our next discussion of papers from the JFT on the AFT Email list will run for three weeks from 12.ii.05, i.e. until midnight 4.iii.05. Here's Peter's comment to the list: We will start at midnight on 11th Feb. And reserve the first three days for trainees, so open season starts at midnight on Monday 14th. The papers are copyright to the AFT as per all JFT material (see Permissions and Copyright Information) but made available here for anyone interested in joining in the Email list discussion. The papers are available here in PDF format: In the perhaps unikely event that your www browser doesn't handle PDF files already, the beauty is that you can for free for most computer platforms:
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I believe that one of the authors, Alan Carr will be leading off the discussion and at least 370 others of us will be in on the discussion, feel free to join the list and join in yourself. If you like it, stick around for the rather different, usually less voluminous but equally high quality, discussion that is the normal traffic of the list, and for the future discussions. Who knows, if you like it, you could join AFT and get JFT into the bargain!

 

Update: 28.iv.04
AFT Email list discussion of papers from the Journal of Family therapy

Peter Stratton has taken up the wonderful work that David Pocock did in convening intermittent discussions of papers from the JFT on the AFT Email list and the next discussion will start on on Sunday 2nd May and run for three weeks to 12 noon GMT on Saturday 22nd May. The discussion is the paper by Mark Rivett and Alyson Rees "Dancing on a razor's edge: systemic group work with batterers". To quote from the abstract "This paper describes a systemic approach to working with domestic violence which does not focus upon couple therapy but rather adapts the Duluth co-ordinated community response model.". The Journal carried a commentary by Arlene Vetere and Jan Cooper "Wishful thinking or Occam's razor? A response to 'Dancing on a razor's edge: systemic group work with batterers'".
The papers are copyright to Blackwell and the AFT as per all JFT material (see Permissions and Copyright Information) but made available here for anyone interested in joining in the Email list discussion. The papers are available here in PDF format: In the perhaps unikely event that your www browser doesn't handle PDF files already, the beauty is that you can for free for most computer platforms:
Get Acrobat Viewer

I believe that Mark, Alyson, Arlene and Jan and at least 350 others of us will be in on the discussion, feel free to join the list and join in yourself. If you like it, stick around for the rather different, usually less voluminous but equally high quality, discussion that is the normal traffic of the list, and for the future discussions. Who knows, if you like it, you could join AFT and get JFT into the bargain!

 

Update from 12.ix.03

Back in 2003, I mounted a paper written by Sue Stuart-Smith and myself in Context49 as it seemed pertinent to some discussion on the AFT Email list Like almost everything of mine on this website, these are mounted here Creative Commons License
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