Invitation to join a study related to the lockdown
Naomi Moller, Open University, UK,
and Virginia Braun, T e University of Auckland, New Zealand, are conducting an online COVID-19 related story completion study. T ey are recruiting ‘general public’ participants resident in New Zealand and the UK and would appreciate if you would share the link below through your networks (NB, social media sharing has been ethically- approved). Participants wanted for research
exploring responses to COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and New Zealand Participants should be 18+ and
currently reside in the UK or New Zealand. You will be asked to write two short stories about diff erent scenarios featuring characters in COVID-19 lockdown. You will also be asked some ‘questions about you’ (age etc) so we can understand something about who has taken part (this information will be compiled into a table and won’t be linked to the stories other than to identify country of residence and gender). For full details of the study, including of T e Open University ethical approval (ht ps://
openss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/ SV_bdBymGQcEwHfD4p)
Murmurations writing project Pandemic as Systemic Flux: Changes and
their unfolding consequences across human and non-human systems T e writing project: Critical times need new ways of responding. T is writing project is such a response to this pandemic era. Systemic fl ux: Systemic fl ux is a term we are using to draw at ention to emergent processes with many kinds of relational consequences. As many writings from this project
as possible will be published as part of a rolling writing-project, “Pandemic as Systemic Flux” by Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice. Please see the website for details of how to take part ((ht p://murmurations.
Journal of Systemic Therapies and Guilford Publications journal content
Jim Duvall, editor of the Journal of Systemic
T erapies, has announced that, due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Journal of Systemic T erapies (ht ps://
guilfordjournals.com/ loi/jsyt) and all other Guilford Publications journal content (ht ps://guilfordjournals. com/) will be available for free, with no pay walls of any sort, to both individuals and institutions – eff ective immediately through July 31, 2020. For the journal, select from the available issues, which carry an unlocked padlock symbol next to them.
Query from a member An AFT member, Victoria, is interested
in fi nding out whether there are any family therapists who are off ering interventions to prisoners, either as in-reach or if they are part of a service. She is interested in developing something at the prison she is working in and wanted to connect with others. If you have anything to share with her, please do contact her at Victoria. vallentine@cpſt
.nhs.uk
Want to get more involved with your association?
We all have a part to play in running our
organisation. We invite you to seek out opportunities to get involved. AFT have strong council and commit ee structures with a range of ways for members to make a valued contribution. You would be promoting our way of working and contributing to maintaining high standards of policy and practice across the range of systemic training and work. If you think you would like to become involved, please email Suzanne O’Connor at mail@aſt
.org.uk.
The College of Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy
Similarly, you may wish to get involved
with the college. Contact Kate Waters, chair of the college:
CFCST@ukcp.org.uk
The Anna Freud Centre expert blogs
T e Anna Freud Centre is publishing
a new series of expert blogs to shine a spotlight on those children who are particularly vulnerable during the coronavirus crisis. As leading specialists in their fi elds, the authors call on colleagues and wider society to keep in mind these children and young people – and to act on the opportunities which exist to support them in these uncertain times. “Coronavirus: Keeping in mind the children of high confl ict separated parents” (ht ps://
www.annafreud.org/insights/ blogs/2020/04/coronavirus-2-keeping- in-mind-the-children-of-high-confl ict- separated-parents/), is by Emma Morris, a consultant clinical psychologist at the Anna Freud Centre. In the blog, she urges professionals to keep in mind the children of separated parents during the coronavirus lockdown. While the challenges are many, this should not lead to a loss of support. We can play a huge part in helping parents mediate, mobilising networks and checking in with the child. Other blogs from leading experts in the series will focus on children and young people receiving psychological treatment and therapeutic interventions, children in care, and babies and young children.
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index.php/murmurations/ writingproject)
How to do Counselling Online: A Coronavirus Primer
T is continuing professional
development course has been jointly developed by T e Open University and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. T e aim of the course is to off er a primer on working online as a counsellor or psychotherapist at a time when face-to-face therapy is neither possible nor safe. Course completion will boost your knowledge and confi dence, and will support counsellors and psychotherapists to off er technology- based counselling safely and eff ectively. (6 hours CPD) Further details available here. ht ps://
www.open.edu/openlearncreate/ course/
view.php?id=5039
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