Moving beyond psychiatry and family therapy
Soren Hertz and Jim Wilson
This workshop explores the idea of viewing the problem behaviour of children and young people as invitations to others. The essential task is to create contexts which enable us to promote possibilities for change. Exploring the unexplored potentials of children and those close to them is a process which demands a combination of creativity and courage from all concerned.
The presentation will address the transdisciplinary ideas of Gregory Bateson and when seriousness and optimism and other apparent opposites are put into place side by side change when seriousness and optimism and other apparent opposites are put into play side by side. Examples from practice will include attention to ADHD autism and schizophrenia.
Presenters: Jim Wilson: Consultant Family Therapist, Gwent Health Care Trust, Wales and Co-Director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions. Jim teaches nationally and internationally and has authored several core texts used in family therapy training.
Søren Hertz is a Danish child and adolescent psychiatrist working in Copenhagen. He has written a book about his work in which he sees diagnosis as a snapshot at a moment in time and problem behaviour as a communication, a response to something and an invitation to others. He pays attention to the multiple contexts in which the young people live their lives and invites us to consider the societal obligations towards troubled your people.