Resources
Papers, guides and clinical resources drawn from our work in Attachment Narrative Therapy and systemic family practice.
Foundations and Practice
Tracking Circularities – A collaborative invitation to conversations about patterns of actions, feelings and thoughts in families
This paper re-visits a widely employed technique, ‘tracking’ which is often regarded to be part of the first phase of family therapy and associated especially with strategic approaches. It is suggested that rather than...
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Formats for Exploration: Systemic and Attachment Narrative Frameworks
Exploring patterns of comforting Walking around in difficult moments – systemic tracking of attachment conflicts, attachment injuries and dilemmas Exploring attachment narratives through the family genogram Corrective and replicative scripts Scaffolding conversations about feelings...
Read ArticleFamily Functional Formulations as Guides to Psychological Treatment
The paper proposes that clinical practice based on psychiatric diagnoses and categories of harmful behavior may be inadequate at best and harmful at worst. An alternative model of family functional formulations is proposed based...
Read ArticleAttachment Narrative Therapy (ANT): An Introductory Guide
This short guide to ANT is not intended to be prescriptive about how to organise therapeutic sessions. It is offered as a tentative structure which can be adapted with different families and to clinical...
Read ArticleAttachment Narrative Therapy: Patterns, Stories and Connections
The practice of systemic family therapy has gone through a variety of evolutions, elaborations and transformations. Nevertheless, we suggest that it continues to be influenced by a number of core ideas which include mutual...
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Parent and Child Attachment Interview (Modified PDI and AAI)
In this interview I am going to be asking you about your experiences as a child and relationship with your own child/ren. The interview has a formal structure but feel free...
Read ArticleFormat for ANT supervision
Presenter offers presentation with the following prepared: genogram, tracking and possibly one other ,e.g. button sculpt, comfort interview, corrective script interview (Option of bringing information from the Parent Development Interview) 15 mins Rudi offers...
Read ArticleAssessing attachment in families: Beyond the Dyads
Attachment is often thought of a dyadic process involving two people, usually a mother and child, in a relationship. However these two individuals almost always exist in the context of some sort of family,...
Read ArticleANT Formulation Guide
PROBLEM/S: Understandings of the problem/s, ideas about cause focus of the problems, who is identified as having the problems, diagnosis – family , school, extended family, professional services… PREDISPOSING: Background and history, Dangers (traumas...
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Attachment narrative therapy: integrating ideas from narrative and attachment theory in systemic family therapy with eating disorders
This paper proposes that recent developments in attachment theory, especially the move to the study of representations, offers some helpful new directions for systemic family therapy. Some of the findings of a close association...
Read ArticleSystemic-attachment formulation for families of children with autism
Case formulation has gained increasing prominence as a guide to intervention across a range of clinical problems. It offers a contrasting orientation to diagnosis and its value is considered in the context of clinical...
Read ArticleDeveloping Systemic Therapies in a Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service using an Attachment Narrative Therapy Approach
This paper describes the development of systemic therapies in a Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS) that developed Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT) specifically for families in the perinatal stage of the family life-cycle. ANT...
Read ArticleBecoming invisible: The effect of triangulation on children’s well-being
The study explored children’s experience of triangulation in their families. In all, 15 children aged 11–16 years, who were attending an early intervention family therapy service, participated in the study. The children’s understandings and...
Read ArticleBrief Summary of Intervention Manual for SAFE (Systemic Autism-related Family Enabling): an early intervention for families of children with autism and Asperger Syndrome
The intervention manual has been developed from the following bases of evidence and clinical experience: 1. Systemic Family Therapy. Systemic Family Therapy focuses on promoting positive changes in the relationships within families rather than...
Read ArticleI just like Lego
I just like Lego!” Self-Autism Mapping as a non-totalising approach Rebecca McKenzie and Rudi Dallos The nature of the problem In the past year we have met a number of children with autism and...
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Attachment Reading List
Bowlby, J (1988) A secure base: parent-child attachment and healthy human development. New York: Basic Books. Byng - Hall, J. (1995) Rewriting Family Scripts . London: Guilford Press Byng-Hall, J. (1995) ‘Creating a secure...
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Bishop, S., Stedmon, J., & Dallos, R. (2015). Mothers’ narratives about having a child with cancer: A view through the attachment lens. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry , 20 (4), 611-625. Dallos, R. (2014)....
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