New Horizons in Systemic Practice with Children and Families (Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Editors Introduction
2 Systemic Approaches to Safeguarding Children’s Rights Through Parental Separation and Divorce: Opening Spaces for Childhood to Continue
	Introduction
	Promoting Children’s Participation Rights in Transition Decisions
		Child Participation in Decision-Making: The Positioning of Parents and Children
		Child Participation: Communicating Reactions and Expressing Wishes
	Reducing and Containing Postseparation Parental Conflict: Protecting the Developmental Rights of Children
		Parental Conflict and the Young Child: Systemic Responses
		Parental Conflict and the Child Attending Elementary School: Systemic Responses
		Parental Conflict and the Adolescent: Systemic Responses
	Parental Alienation and Children’s Protection Rights: New Horizons for Systemic Practice
		Parental Alienation and Parental Estrangement
		Alienating Behaviours and Parental Alienation
		Impact of Parental Alienation
		Diagnosing Parental Alienation
		Parental Alienation and a Specialized Form of Family Therapy
	Conclusion
	References
3 Gender Incongruence: Youth with a Special Talent for Gender; Supporting Youth and Families
	Gender Incongruity
	Gender Identity
	Family and Parenthood
	An Inclusive Conversational Space
		Welcome!
	The Conversations: Include All the Significant Others You Want
	From Different to Talented
		Gender Map
		An Inclusive Professional Community
	References
4 Relational Interventions in Complex Situations: Sessions with Substance Using Parents
	Essential Elements in the Meetings with Hanne and Martin
	The Background and Context of Therapy for Parents of Young Children
	Examples of Dialogues and Topics
		New Horizons—Small Interventions in Complex Situations
	When Are Small Interventions Big Enough?
	Concluding Remarks
	References
5 Families Living with Anticipatory Grief; How Can We Both Understand and Explain?
	Illness Phenomena: A Meeting of Medical and Phenomenological Perspectives
	Emotions—And the Curse of Dualism
	The Power of Language and the Force of Dialogue
	References
6 Tailoring Treatment in the Context of a Manual: A New Horizon for Family Therapy with Families with a Young Person Suffering from an Eating Disorder
	Introduction
	Eating Disorders
	The Manual
	The Active Elements in FBT
	The Challenges of Using a Manual
	Suggestions About How to Customize the Manual to Meet Individual Families Needs
	An Example of a Systemic Formulation Process
	Concluding Comments
	References
7 Systemic Perspectives and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Mutually Exclusive or Mutually Inclusive?
	Introduction
	The Nature and Function of Categories
		Some Reflections
		Some Reflections
		Some Reflections
		Some Reflections
	Final Reflection
	References
8 “The Challenges Will Remain”: Systemic Work with Families of Children Needing Extra Care
	Introduction
	The Family-guidance Service
	Advocacy as a Systemic Intervention: Gabriel and His Mother Claire
	Parental Conflict Resolution as Systemic Intervention: Peter and His Parents
	Harnessing Family Resources: Taylor, Her Mother and Extended Family
	The Therapeutic Relationship and Its Support
	Conclusion
	References
9 A Systemic Approach to School-Based Consultation: Combining Interventions That Belong to Different Theoretical Traditions
	Introduction
	The Development of MAC
	The Systems Perspective
	A Brief Description of Marte Meo and Coordination Meetings
	In Practice
	Final Reflexions
	References
10 The Community Relations Model (CoRe): An Integrated Systems Response to Early Mental Health Support for Children and Families in Communities
	The Community Relations (CoRe) Model—An Integrated Systems Response
	CoRe Dimension 1: Resilient Children and Families Living in Communities
		Resilience and Inequality
	CoRe 2: Resilient Frontline Practitioners Working with Children and Families
		Emotional Awareness and Responsive Practice
		Interacting Stories of Practitioners with Children and Their Families
		The Reflective Relational Framework
	CoRe 3: Resilient Interconnected Professional, Family and Community Systems
		An Integrated Schools, Family and CAMHS Case Pathway
		Wider Systems and Community-Based Resilience
		Health Inequalities and Co-producing Services with Communities
	Training for CAMHS Practitioners and the Dissemination of CoRe
	Conclusion—Why Is This Response so Urgent Now?
	References
11 Epilogue
Index