June 2020, Issue No. 169, ISSN 0969-1936 Issue Editors: Joanne Hipplewith and John Hills General Editor: Brian Cade, 11 Beresford House, Shepherds Way, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2EX Email:
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Contents
Refl ections on the Covid-19 pandemic John Hills
Uncertain times and certainty Joanne Hipplewith
Editorial Joanne Hipplewith and John Hills
Meeting each other: Improvisation and a generous spirit Jim Wilson
Coming ‘together’ in a family therapy clinic as trainees Vicky Bristow-Smith, Simone Doff oh, Melissa Nicholas and Eszter Szabo
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On both sides of the wall Henry Cockburn
T e tactics of mistake – on being pushed and pulled David Steare
T inking about engagement and joining with asylum seeking and refugee
families Matthew Hodes
Engaging and being Gill Wyse
Engaging clients through re-engaging ourselves Hendrix Hammond and Derek Nasseri
Working together across country lines: Cultural familiarity and
unfamiliarity in both professional and personal contexts Joanne Hipplewith
Engaging those with complex trauma through ‘belonging’ Michelle Newman Brown
Growing old disgracefully and working with the disgracefully old: 23 26
Refl ections of joining f om boy to man to therapist: Infl uenced by a Joiner John Cavanagh
Signifi cant landmarks in the ‘unexplored territory’ of older adulthood Melanie Shepherd and John Hills
Learning Disabilities: Systemic Approaches. London: Red Globe Press. Book review by Joanne Hipplewith
From ‘joining’ to ‘social distancing’ John Cavanagh
Lennox T omas, 1952 – 2020
Branching out: Oxford and Chiltern AFT branch update Shona Reed-Purvis and Sarah Coles
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