I wrote last year about wanting to increase the pool of
people who review papers for our journal, and spoke about this to a group of members at the AFT conference last year. Since then, I’m pleased to report we’ve added to our list a number of current MSc students, doctoral students, and members. We have introduced an induction process which allows new reviewers to be paired with more experienced ones, so that they can learn through the process about journal standards and how reviewers can help to constructively shape the articles that are submit ed, and 111 people have contributed reviews during 2019. As a way of honouring the considerable contribution of reviewers, the editorial board has decided to follow the Journal of Marital and Family T erapy’s practice of making an annual ‘Reviewer of the Year’ award (to be decided by the editor). I would have liked to be presenting this at our association’s AGM, but, given current circumstances, I am announcing this here. The Journal of Family Therapy’s 2020 ‘Reviewer of the
Year’ award goes to Charlotte Cosquer. Even though she is not currently a member of the editorial board (which places a requirement on members to contribute a number of reviews during the year), she submitted the second greatest number at five. These reviews have always been meticulous, carefully crafted responses to the author’s work, setting out the necessary standards for a Journal of Family Therapy article, while making constructive suggestions as to how the work could be improved. Our board has also decided to follow the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy practice of making an award for the article
of the year, decided by a sub-group of the board on the basis of the quality of writing, innovation and likelihood of being inf luential in developing our field. Following the Booker prize precedent last year, we found there were two articles we could not separate, so this award goes jointly to Barry Mason’s article ‘Re-visiting safe uncertainty: Six perspectives for clinical practice and the assessment of risk’ (volume 41(3): 343-356), and to Karen Partridge, Paul Dugmore, Helen Mahaffey, Mark Chidgey and James Owen’s article ‘Step by step, side by side: The quest to create relational artistry through systemic practice within children’s social care’ (volume 41(3): 321-342). The first is a wonderfully succinct description of developments in the framework introduced in Barry’s seminal paper on risk, published in 1993; the latter an elegant account of the development of a systemic training programme in social care. Both appeared in the special edition on systemic work in social care settings and, if you haven’t read them yet, I hope this will encourage you to do so now! I would encourage new authors to approach me if they
would like to discuss an idea for an article, and do also approach me if you are interested in taking on a role as a reviewer.
Philip Messent
Philip.messent@
thembisa.com
Bhatia, S. (2020) The pandemic is a mirror: Race, poverty and radical care in times of crisis. Presentation at The Psychology of Global Crises, Hashtag2020
https://youtu.be/nsaYf46n9Hs
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Chair: Bernadet e Rut le Treasurer: Peter Strat on Secretary: Marie McGovern/Helen Turner Branch Rep: Carole Hunt Commit ee members: Helga Hanks, Alison Bainbridge Address where meetings are held: Varies but currently via Zoom. We are a new branch and our inaugural meeting was held in
June 2019; the confi rmation of our status as an offi cial branch of AFT was shared at the branch meeting in January 2020. As with all other branches we have been impacted by COVID-19 and since then all our meetings have been held remotely. We have been meeting regularly as a commit ee and were excited to hold our fi rst online journal discussion meeting refl ecting on the paper by Gene Combs: ‘White privilege: what’s a family therapist to do’. T is was well at ended and generated thoughtful conversations, ideas for change and the sharing of many fantastic resources. Our next members’ meeting is 30 July 2020: ‘Online working – possibilities and constraints’. We are excited to invite Gail Simon and Leah Salter to lead our inaugural event. T is will be held on the morning of 11 September
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2020 via Zoom. Please look out for this as all are welcome to book via Eventbrite. It will be followed by our AGM for members only. T e commit ee will continue to meet regularly to plan future
events to bring systemically minded practitioners together to refl ect, support each other and enhance our practice.
Isle of Wight branch T e Isle of Wight branch of AFT (IWAFT) continues to have well
at ended regular commit ee meetings enriched by two new members. T e commit ee comprises of Katrina Redpath (chair), Maryse
Plisnier (secretary), Mike Vine, Caroline Devereux, Julian Samiloff , Ad Van Heeswijk (vice chair), Chris Brooke-Smith (treasurer) and Myrena Mercken (branch representative). T e commit ee ensures there will be regular forums, overall
presented by members of the commit ee. Subjects have included: suicide, supervision, therapy and neurological fi ndings and autism. Due to recent constraints around COVID-19, we have taken
the opportunity to transition to remote working for meetings and supervision so that contact and planning as well as training forums can continue. T e last forum, ‘T erapy at a distance...’ on virtual practice, was our fi rst via Zoom. Forums remain highly
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