Volume 12 Number 2 November 1998

Special Issue: Counselling and Psychotherapy with older people

Guest Editors: Simon Biggs & Ray Woolfe

EDITORIAL/133

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The end of the beginning: a brief history of the psychoanalysis and adult ageing/Simon Biggs/135

Therapists' attitudes towards working with older people/Ray Woolfe/141

No truce with the furies/Rachael Davenhill/149

Reminiscence therapy with older adults/Eleanor O'Leary & Nicola Barry/159

Transcultural therapy and later life/Zack Eleftheriadou/167

Intergenerational mediation: its potential for contributing to the prevention of elder abuse/Yvonne Craig/175

Counselling and therapy with older refugees/Maggie Comley/181

Psychosocial approaches to working with depressed older people/Fiona Goudie/189

Psychotherapeutic work with dementia sufferers/Richard Cheston/199

Who will care for older people? A case study of working with destructiveness and despair in long-stay care/Paul Terry/209

Making sense of experience: death and old age/Linda Machin/217

Understanding loss: the origins and value of current theories of loss/Tina Miller/227

BOOK REVIEWS
Supervision of Psychotherapy and Counselling 239; What Works in Families with a Disabled Child? 241

Abstracts and reviews of journal articles/243

TITLE-PAGE, VOLUME CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX/247

Volume 12 Number 1 May 1998

EDITORIAL/5

THE DYNAMICS OF ADOPTION

The dynamics of adoption: personal and social perspectives. Papers from a seminar organised by the Centre for Adoption and Identity Studies, December 1997. Introduction/Andrew Cooper/7

Speaking from experience/Ruth Valentine/9

Loss, recovery and adoption: a child's perspective/Debbie Hindle/17

The perspective of adoptive parents/Lorraine Tollemache/27

Assessment for adoption: the child's perspective/Corinne Aves/31

Assessment for adoption: the parent's perspective/Tanya Gutter/39

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE FIRST ANNUAL LECTURE
Relationship-based thinking and practice in social work/David Howe/45

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts and Approved Social Work Training/Clare Parkinson &Paul Thompson/57

Growing up in residential care/Hamish Canham/65

“It's like death—but not permanent”/Jude Deacon/77

“A proper haunting”: the need in mourning to maintain a continuing
relationship with the dead/Jeremy Weinstein/93

COMMENTARY
Doing and bearing witness: a response to Dick Blackwell/William Horder/103

BOOK REVIEWS
The Dimensions of Elder Abuse 111; Wholeness in Later Life 111; The Mistreatment of Elderly People 113; Ageing Europe 114; Protecting Children: Messages from Europe 116; Understanding Child Molesters: Taking Charge 118; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 120

AN APPRECIATION
Elizabeth Ernestine Irvine: 1906-1997/123

Volume 11 Number 2 November 1997

EDITORIAL/69

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The end as a means to growth—within the social work relationship/Jean P. Nursten/73

Holding, containing and bearing witness: the problem of helpfulness in encounters with torture survivors/Dick Blackwell/81

Education social work with a Traveller woman/Kathleen Nickson &
John Sudbery/91

The colour question in psychoanalysis/Farhad Dalal/103

Hearing voices, talking difference: a dialogic approach to anti-oppressive practice/Danielle Turney/115

Thinking the unthinkable: 'white liberal' defences against understanding in
anti-racist training/Andrew Cooper/127

COMMENTARY
A response to 'Factitious disorders by proxy: a trap for the unwary'/J. Trowell
& G. Miles/139

BOOK REVIEWS
Attachment Theory for Social Work Practice 145; On the Outside Looking In: Collected Essays on Young Child Observation in Social Work Training 146; Healing Through Meeting: Martin Buber's Conversational Approach to Psychotherapy 148; Child Centred Play Theory 150; Equipment for Older or Disabled People and the Law 151; Managing Manic Depressive Disorders 152; Competence in Social Work Practice 154

TITLE-PAGE VOLUME CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX/157

Volume 11 Number 1 May 1997

EDITORIAL/5

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Developing skills in working individually with children/Debbie Hindle &
Tony Miller/9

Factitious disorders by proxy: a trap for the unwary/Peter Randall &
Jonathan Parker/17

Groups for women survivors of childhood sexual abuse: the implications of attachment theory/Carol-Ann Hooper, Juliet Koprowska & Una McCluskey/27

COMMENTARY
A response to 'Psychoanalysis and the politics of organisational theory'/Dick Blackwell/41

CONFERENCE REPORT/47

BOOK REVIEWS
Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis 51; Anti-Racist Probation Practice 54; Learning and Teaching in Social Work: Towards Reflective Practice 55; You're Under Arrest and You're On Trial 57; Child Protection; A Model for Risk Assessment in Physical Abuse/Neglect 58;
Gender, Power and Relationships 59

Volume 10 Number 2 November 1996

EDITORIAL/109

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Black social work students and practitioners: survival strategies/Agnes Bryan
& Cathy Aymer/113

Instrumentalism, knowledge and gender in social work/Lynn Froggett/119

The institute as container of unconscious feelings: the therapeutic challenge of
adolescents in residential care/Andrew Collie/129

Psychoanalysis and the politics of organisational theory/Andrew Cooper/137

What ceremony of words can patch the havoc? The vitality of literature in the
therapeutic encounter/Martin Smith/147

Psychodynamics and empowerment in community mental health/Haddy Davis/157

BOOK REVIEWS
The Emotional Needs of Young Children and their Families: Using Psychoanalytical Ideas in the Community 163; Suicide-The Ultimate
Rejection? A Psycho-Social Study 165; Implementing the New Community
Care 167; Good Practice in Risk Assessment and Risk Management 168;
Age and Dignity: Working with Older People 170

TITLE-PAGE, VOLUME CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX/171

Volume 10 Number 1 May 1996

EDITORIAL/5

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

On retaining a reflective space: making sense of interactions in work and
work groups/Michael Preston-Shoot/9

Maintaining the capacity for concern during organisational restructuring for
community care/Celia Downes, Sheila Ernst & Martyn Smithers/25

Internal consultation and child protection work/Alan Rushton & Jack Nathan/41

Staff support in organisations providing therapeutic care/John Sudbery & Jennifer Bradley/51

Why ever do we do it? Unconscious motivation in choosing social work as a
career/Jance Vincent/63

Post-traumatic stress disorder in children: the social work challenge/
Jonathan Parker & Peter Randall/71

Social work: one or several? /Noel Timms/83

BOOK REVIEWS
Psychology for Social Workers: Black Perspectives 89; Legislating for
Harmony: Partnership under the Children Act, 1989 91; The Child Protection
Handbook 92; Sexuality, Learning Difficulties and Doing What's Right 95;
Collaborative Care: Interprofessional, Interagency, Interpersonal 96; The
Abuse of Older People: A Training Manual for Detection and Prevention 98;
Old Age Abuse - A New Perspective 98; The Law and Elderly People 98

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS/103