Live supervision without a one-way screen

In this article we describe a project which aims to ensure prevention and continued protection from violence for family members. We outline our theoretical approach to assessment and working with violence in family relationships and the associated ethical problems. We identify three recurrent themes: risk, collaboration, and responsibility. We focus on our work with couples, where the man is violent towards the woman. Within this discussion we identify other important clinical issues.

Section: Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working systemically with family violence: risk, responsibility and collaboration

Vetere¹,

Cooper²

2001

“…One therapist alone with a family can quickly become inducted into their way of seeing things, and this is particularly true of the therapist seeing a family on their home turf. However, there is no reason why a co-therapist cannot be taken into the home or why that therapist cannot sit quietly in a corner as if there were a screen between them and the family (Smith and Kingston, 1980;Kingston and Smith, 1983). One therapist sits back from the family group but can interrupt to talk with the therapist who is working directly with the family.…”

Section: Lack Of Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family therapy in the home

Cottrell

1994

There is good evidence in other areas of therapeutic endeavour that home-based therapy may have advantages over clinic-based work for some patients. There are some families who have real dificulties in attending clinics. Despite these facts little has been written on the topic. This brief article reviews some of the objections to home-based family work and suggests possible solutions for the interested therapist.It is a cold and gloomy night, just starting to rain. As you park the car, you are sure you can hear the sounds of other cars being broken into. You are already ten minutes late because you discovered, after you had left the office, that you only had the flat number and the name of the tower block but not the street name. Hurrying to the entrance you notice the lack of lighting and start to feel scared. The lift is not working.When you reach the flat there is no door bell or knocker and you can hear the TV playing loudly -perhaps they won't hear you and you can go home with honour salvaged. You knock lightly and a furious barking alerts the occupants to your presence. Amidst the chaos of barking dog and shouting children you realize the family had forgotten the appointment. They are in the middle of a meal. You accept their apologies and wait for the meal to finish.Afterwards you gather in the lounge. The chairs (there are not enough) are arranged in a respectful arc, their focus the large television set in the corner. This is left on and children wander in and out during the meeting. Halfway through a neighbour calls round and is invited in by the family. There are no

“…and (b) live consultation or supervision without a screen (e.g. Olson and Pegg, 1979;Smith and Kingston, 1980;Ainley and Kingston, 1981). In this article, we principally consider the latter.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…* In our earlier article (Smith and Kingston, 1980) we made some clear distinctions between live consultation and supervision on the one hand, and co-therapy on the other. That article assumed that the term 'cotherapy' described work which was normally undertaken between peers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, where co-therapy is deliberately established on the basis of assymetrical r8les it may well, in its practice, be very much akin to what we are describing as live supervision and consultation. For example, some forms of co-therapy have clearly been used as a teaching method within which an in experienced worker is trained by an experienced and * With hindsight our earlier article 'Live Supervision Without a One-way Screen' (Smith and Kingston, 1980) would have been more appropriately termed 'LiveConsultation Without a One-way Screen'.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Preparation for live consultation and live supervision when working without a one‐way screen

Kingston¹,

Smith

1983

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This article focuses upon the preparatory work which two people should undertake when they intend working together with families. Although a particular model of joint work, namely live consultation between peers, without the use of a one‐way screen forms the core of the article, the ideas which have been developed in relation to that model apply, with some variations, to all forms of joint work. Some of these variations are considered towards the end of the article. Many of the ideas here presented arose within a number of workshops which we led on the subjects of Live Consultation and Live Supervision Without One‐Way Screens. We are grateful to the participants for their ideas, especially to those of the 1981 York Association of Family Therapy Conference workshop who returned questionnaires about their use of these methods.