Welcome
to the Journal of Family Therapy e-mail discussion forum

This is a joint venture between the Journal of Family Therapy and the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK providing the opportunity to obtain and discuss via the internet a family therapy journal paper.

How to join the discussion

Participation is available free to all Journal readers. Discussions will be conducted through the AFT e-mail list by kind permission of the list owner, Chris Evans.

The third Forum discussion begins 12 noon GMT on Sunday 2nd of May and
runs for three weeks to 12 noon GMT on Saturday 22nd of May. Here's how to join in:

Step one: Download and read the discussion paper and commentary

Dancing on a razor's edge: systemic group work with batterers by Mark Rivett and Alyson Rees, published in Volume 26 (2).

Wishful thinking or Occam’s razor? A response to ‘Dancing on a razor’s edge: systemic group work with batterers’ by Arlene Vetere and Jan Cooper, published in Volume 26 (2).

You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this paper and response. To obtain a free copy and instructions on how to install it please click on the icon on the right.

Step two: Join the AFT list

To take part in ongoing discussions you need to register your contact details with the AFT listserv. You will not be able to receive discussion e-mail without registering. You can leave the list at any time you want by sending an "unsubscribe" message as described in the welcome message..

To join, e-mail aft-request@psyctc.org with the message "subscribe" (but without the quotation marks).

Once you've joined you'll get a confirmation request which you should be able to confirm simply by replying to it. This is to make it harder for someone to abuse the list by spamming it or subscribing others to it. After you confirm you should get a message telling you all about the list, PLEASE keep this! Then you are aboard and you can send a message to the list simply by clicking ‘reply’ to any message.

You may find it useful to set up a file in your emails called AFT, and automatically divert all messages with [AFT] in the subject to that file. That way your personal emails will nto get overloaded.

Archives of previous discussions are available to current subscribers to the AFT list.

Any problems?

Contact Peter Stratton at p.m.stratton@ntlworld.com

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