Haiku on Test/ Unite/ Vital

Test

Tester or testee

A power differential

Could tester fail test?

All students tested

End of academic year

You signed on for this

Life is a challenge

Each milestone can test your strengths

And perseverance

Unite

If all world profits

Were pooled and shared equally

Would humans unite?

The oesophagus

At the cardiac sphincter

Unites with stomach

Across all the world

It is grief that comes from loss

That unites humans

After night's losses

Mourning can unite us all

Leaving yesterday

Vital

Having been mothered
A vital ingredient
Caring for a child

To be young again

Living with vitality

No care in the world

Kicked in the vitals

Again I fall to the floor

Poor Karate blocks

Mindfulness training manuals to help you manage mental health problems in young people

       

A Manual for training mental health workers: "Taming the Adolescent Mind". And a workbook for professionals to be able to train other groups of mental health workers....
Learn about the mindfulness groups, and THEN help others to gain the skills, and learn to apply them with young people.

Both of these  are for sale, and can be found at http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au
Scroll down on the front page to see the images, click on buy, and follow the prompts.

About the author
Dr. Lucy Tan, whom I have had the privilege to supervise during the years of her PHD, has recently published her work on the use of Mindfulness with adolescents who have mental health problems.

She began her work with a normative study looking at how Mindfulness could be measured, and with what it correlated:
Tan, L. and Martin, G., 2012. Mind Full or Mindful: A report on mindfulness and psychological health in healthy adolescents. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. Published online (3^rd September, 2012). DOI:10.1080/02673843.2012.709174

Then there was a small pilot study to see whether a 5 session Mindfulness group could have some impact on mental health problems and symptoms in adolescents. The results were stunning...
Tan, L. and Martin, G., 2012. Taming the Adolescent Mind: Preliminary report of a mindfulness-based psychological intervention for adolescents with clinical heterogeneous mental health diagnoses. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. DOI 1359104512455182, 18:2, 300-312.

Armed with confidence, she then completed a randomised controlled study of 100 young people attending a child and youth mental health clinic. This paper is not yet published, but again the results are quite stunning and suggest the utility of the program she devised for her PHD.
Tan, L. and Martin, G. Taming the Adolescent Mind: A randomised controlled trial examining clinical efficacy of an adolescent mindfulness-based group program. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Submitted.

Twenty-five free academic papers to download

We have reached an auspicious number of academic papers that can be downloaded free of charge in pdf format - 25! Twenty-five weeks of steady commitment to providing provocative papers around mental health issues…
OK. I know some of them are elderly, but surprisingly they are still goodies; still cogent, and still worth a read...
OK. I know I have spent my life trying to understand adolescent suicide, and that is not everyone's cup of tea. But there are other issues addressed, including books on self-injury, and others on aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing.

Go to http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au

Then click on the tab: 'Resources'

Scan down the list and see what might interest you. No rush… We will not be removing them unless the original publisher complains.

Monday Free Download: Continuing medical education in marital and family therapy: a survey of South Australian psychiatrists

The ‘common wisdom’ (i.e. in the gutter press) about psychiatry seems to suggest that psychiatrists diagnose (based on systems like ICD and DSM), and then reach for the prescription pad. This may be a peculiarly American view. In online psychiatry groups elsewhere around the world, there are lively discussions about  how to do various forms of psychotherapy and whether psychoanalytic thinking retains its currency. This 1995 paper seems to suggest that a percentage of psychiatrists had skills in marital and family therapies, and were actively seeking continuing medical education in these fields. Perhaps it is time for a follow-up survey. I wonder whether we would be find anything different?

Go to http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au

Then the Resources Tab

Download here: Continuing medical education in marital and family therapy

Allison, S., Powrie, R., Pearce, C. & Martin, G., 1995.  Continuing Medical Education in Marital and Family Therapy.  Australian and New Zealand Journal Of Psychiatry, 29:4, 638-644.

Sunday Haiku on Part/ Rich&Stay/ Test

Part

I am wholly me

Yet me is a part of us

Who are part of whole

Right, I fixed the bike

Seem to have part left over

What does this chain do?

In relationship

Living out a part could be

Intolerable

Rich and Stay

Life's richness evolves

Crave familiarity

Nothing stays the same

How can we stay rich?

Such a central conundrum

For wealthy people

The rich can stay rich

By building more casinos

To rip off the poor

Test

Tester or testee

A power differential

Could tester fail test?

All students tested

End of academic year

You signed on for this

Life is a challenge

Each milestone can test your strengths

And perseverance

Haiku on Mood/Number/Our

Mood

From the furrowed brow

Tightly pursed lips, hunched shoulders

You're not in the mood

By definition

Temporary state of mind

Mercurial mood

Her eyes change colour

With every change of mood

Currently jet black

Number

Golden ratio

Nature's numbering system

Fibonacci sum

Please pick a number

Sorry, that number is wrong

You could try again

In numbered houses

On streets in countless cities

There are real people

Our

Can't do this alone

The our is upon us

Must work together

My time plus your time

Not the same thing as our time

Need both us and me

This is not our life

We serve a higher purpose

All parts of the whole

Monday Free Download - Metaphor: Complete or Incomplete

This 1984 paper from the Australian Journal of Family Therapy (now the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy) reflects the early struggles of learning the trade of family therapy. As therapists, we use metaphor in all sorts of forms, both overtly and subtly. A theoretical introduction is followed by clinical examples - some of it (in retrospect) a bit fumbling and inexact. But then you have to start somewhere...

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Click the Resources Tab

Download here: * Metaphor: Complete or Incomplete

Martin, G., 1984. Metaphor: Complete or Incomplete.  Australian Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 5 No. 2.