Links
UK government policy
- National Occupational Standards
- The UK government is developing National Occupational Standards for care providers. A set of competence frameworks for the psychological therapies has been developed, which includes a competences framework for systemic psychological therapies.
- Within this there is a map of systemic competences, across five domains.
- The framework describes the knowledge and skills associated with the effective delivery of systemic psychotherapy.
- For researchers this framework can be used in lots of ways, eg. developing manualised approaches to clinical problems or their own manuals, or to define particular concepts they are researching - and what they might mean in practice.
- National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE)'s treatment guidelines
- NICE produces guidelines which influence which treatments and services will be funded by government and the NHS.
- It is therefore crucial for systemic psychotherapy research to contribute to NICE's psychotherapy guidelines, so its efficacy as a treatment is acknowledged.
- The Association of Family Therapy has published a summary of family interventions recommended and reviewed in NICE’s guidelines (updated January 2011). This summary contains recommendations for research on families or family treatments, and covers recent pilot research projects based on these recommendations.
- To find out more about calls for consultation on NICE guidelines and to contribute to these, visit the AFT website. We also need to make the case that empirical research other than RCTs (eg. process studies) should be taken into account by NICE
Research centres and researchers specialising in family therapy and systemic research
UK
- Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre, University of Leeds – Peter Stratton
- Marlborough Family Service, London – Eia Asen
- Department of Family Therapy, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, University of London – Ivan Eisler
- Mental Health Research Group, University of Plymouth – Rudi Dallos
- Department of Psychology, University of Surrey – Arlene Vetere
- Centre for Research on Family, Lifecourse and Generations, University of Leeds – David Cottrell
- School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol – Mark Rivett
- Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London
- European Brief Therapy Association – Alasdair Macdonald
- Cancer Care Research Centre – Liz Forbat
Other European
For researchers seeking to collaborate with other researchers based in Europe, the European Family Therapy Association offers contact details for all its national member associations of family and systemic therapy.
USA & Canada
- Marriage and Family Therapy Programme, Brigham Young University, USA – Russ Crane
- Stanford University School of Medicine – James Lock
- Center for Work and Family, Ackerman Institute for the Family – Peter Fraenkel
- Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse, University of Miami
School of Medicine
– Howard Liddle
- Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Department of Family Studies, College of Health & Human Services, University of New Hampshire, USA
- Pearce Associates has essays and manuscripts on doing research using Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), which are available to download here.
Australia & New Zealand
Asia
