Introduction to Systemic and Family Therapy

JOHN HILLS is Vice Chair of the Association for Family Therapy and British correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. Previously he has been Editor of the Association for Family Therapy Newsletter (1986-1988) and Founding and General Editor of Context, the news magazine of family therapy in Britain. He has been teaching and supervising in the field of systemic and family therapy for well over twenty years and regularly presents at Association for Family Therapy conferences.

• IntroductionUsing the Genogram and Convening the FamilyA Family Systemic Session ObservedEssential Ideas in Systemic Thought and PracticeThe Family Crucible and the Origins of Family TherapyKey Interactions in the Family CrucibleThe Search for Wellbeing: the Ethical Dimension of Systemic ThoughtThe Phenomenological Perspective and MethodDialogue Analysis: Scripts and SubscriptsChange and the Therapeutic Art of Narrative