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Systemic theory offers a valuable framework for integrating the diverse ideas found throughout the mental health arena in both theory and clinical practice. With this accessible book, the authors take you on an enjoyable and coherent journey through systemic theory. They then review the body of research into family therapy and conclude with a critical review of major recent developments in theory and application. At the end of several chapters are reflexive notes containing exercises that relate to the ideas and processes found within the chapter to further develop the reader's understanding. The conclusion draws together the ideas found throughout the book, with particular emphasis on the interlocking triangle of formulation, intervention and evaluation and how this will impact on systemic practice in the future. While this book will be an invaluable introduction to family systems theory and practice for clinical psychology training courses, plugging a gap that Vetere and Dallos have identified as one of their motives for writing it, its remit runs much wider. It will prove an essential companion for any professional working in the public services, whether systemically trained or not. It covers an impressive range of theory, practice and research and, as such, is firmly grounded both in the application to different client groups and in the necessity for most practitioners of integrating different therapeutic approaches.

The book aims to explore the exciting opportunities offered by a systemic approach for mental health professionals and psychotherapists when working with families and other systems where domestic violence in intimate relationships is of concern. The main purpose of the book lies in the application of systemic thinking to safety and to understanding the complexity of domestic violence on family relationships over time. The authors outline their approach to these complex issues based on their eight years of joint experience in the Reading Safer Families project. They draw from a broad field of

AbstractSafety and security is at the heart of expectations of family life. Or is it? When Russia invaded Ukraine, it unleashed another massive movement of peoples in search of safety, fleeing from a lack of security, and forced to leave behind other loved ones, such as husbands, partners, fathers, and grandparents. Many countries, including the United Kingdom, offered to host dislocated Ukrainian mothers and their children as guests in family homes. The UK Government launched the "Homes for Ukraine" scheme in March 2022. The hosts need to be able to offer a spare room or a home for at least 6 months. The Government makes monthly thank you payments to the hosts to help continue their sponsorship of their Ukrainian guests. The matching of hosts and guests is carried out at the local government level with a visit to the host property to ensure it meets the required standard and also the safeguarding "disclosure and barring service" check. In June 2023, over 100,000 Ukrainian families are in the scheme. This recent and well‐intentioned social experiment in guesting and hosting has brought forth both predictable and unforeseen consequences, and a re‐visioning of the meaning and practice of family and family life. In this article, the authors explore some of the reported experiences of guests and hosts to examine what is meant by family, and what helps to create a felt sense of safety in family relationships.

More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders. This book outlines how services can effectively detect, prevent, and treat mental health difficulties in this vulnerable population.Responding to increasing evidence that standard child and adolescent mental health services are poorly matched to the mental health service needs of children and young people who have been in foster c

Conducting qualitative field research involving drug users within a politicized criminal justice setting presents a unique set of ethical, legal, and safeguarding concerns and quandaries for researchers. There is a paucity of qualitative research with community-based drug-using offenders who form part of the UK Government (England and Wales) criminal justice strategies (Senker and Green; Hucklesby and Wincup). Hodgson, Parker, and Seddon highlighted this group as an emerging study population. This article aims to provide a more recent contribution covering the difficulties of accessing and researching with a hard to reach and politicized criminal justice drug-using population, such as risks of re-traumatization, risk assessment, safeguarding, criminal disclosure, and personal safety. The first author reflects on her research from her own unique political position as a policy advisor to the UK Government on criminal justice drug policy, with a view to providing recommendations for research with a hard to reach and hidden population who represent a marginalized group. The combination of reflexivity in research and the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis as a research methodology proved helpful in addressing and overcoming some of these ethical, political, and other quandaries. ; publishedVersion

Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 When the Violence Stops: Different Relationships and Different Forms of Violence in the Family -- Looking at Intimate Partner Violence -- Intimate Partner Violence in Older Couples and Families -- Co-occurrence of Child Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence -- Adolescent to Parent Violence -- Sibling Relationships in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: Protection, Support and Aggression -- Violence Amongst Siblings -- Sibling Protection and Support -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Living with Violence in the Family: Retrospective Recall of Women's Childhood Experiences -- Key Clinical Themes -- Paying Attention to Dissonance, Double Binds and Dilemmas of Love and Abuse -- Being Terrified of Father and Admiring Him a Lot -- Seeing Mother so Full of Love and Fear Towards the Father -- Further Reflections on Working with Dissonance, Double Binds and Dilemmas in Clinical Practice -- Paying Therapeutic Attention to Interpersonal Processes Such as Family Systems Triangulation and Parentification -- The Impact of Triangulation and Parentification on the Women's Development: A Sense of Loss, Feelings of Distress and of Competence -- Drawing from Trauma Theory and Looking at the Traumatogenic Effect of Violence on the Child and Adult Development -- Remembering and Forgetting -- Other Trauma Legacies and Challenges in Relationships-"It Feels like You Are Trying to Make a Mountain Move" -- Looking into Replicative and Corrective Scripts in the Lives of the Family Members: Struggling and Piecing Together the Puzzle Pieces When Becoming Parents -- Looking for Turning Points and Examples of Agency and Resilience -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 How to Help Stop the Violence: Using a Safety Methodology Across the Life Span -- Introduction