Director’s Notes

Working with children, adolescents and their families provides practitioners with an array of presenting problems from violent and aggressive behavior,…

For Christians, the four-day holiday of Easter is the most significant in the religious calendar, an opportunity to reflect on…

New mothers are expected to be happy, full of the joy of birth and safe delivery of their baby, yet…

Sometimes experiences collide in ways that are both jarring and instructive. An example that struck me related to young people…

One of the most noteworthy and valuable features of presentations to the 10th World Congress of Women’s Mental Health in…

It was exciting to be invited to co-present a preconference workshop and paper at the 10th World Congress of Women’s…

The concept of truth, ‘that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality’ has never felt so at…

In 1980 a paper was published in Family Process which profoundly altered family therapy practice around the world. ‘Hypothesizing-Circularity-Neutrality: Three…

Childhood is supposed to be a time of lightness, where adults carry the worries of the world and there is…

Practitioners working with children are aware of the negative impact of adverse experiences in childhood with enduring ramifications in personal,…

Therapeutic work with children and their families is challenging and situations where children have been hurt by those entrusted with…

Another year has begun and the opportunity to consider changes we would like to make. What would we like removed…