Links
The Narrative Therapy Centre, Toronto The
Centre offers trainings and workshops by local and international
therapists, as well as providing therapeutic services. It
is strongly devoted to building a community around narrative
ideas and practices. http://www.narrativetherapycentre.com/index.htm
The Virtual Faculty
Based in the Department of Psychology, Massey University,
New Zealand, the Virtual Faculty offers online courses in
social constructionism, discourse analysis and more with an
international roster of prominent instructors. Dozens of articles
available online.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/
Dulwich Centre Publications
The Dulwich Centre in Adelaide Australia is home base for
Michael and Cheryl White and a range of innovative narrative
practitioners. This site catalogues their growing list of
publications.
http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/
Evanston Family Therapy
Jill Freedman and Gene Combs are prominent narrative family
therapists and offer ongoing trainings from their centre near
Chicago.
http://www.eftc.info/
The Houston Galveston Institute
Harlene Anderson is the most prominent exponent of the Collaborative
Language Systems approach to therapy and a co-founded of HGI.
The Institute has a long and rich history and is active in
a range of innovative projects.
http://www.neosoft.com/~hgi/
The Family Institute of Cambridge
At various times key postmodern therapeutic practitioners
such as Bill Madsen, Sally Ann Roth and Kathe Weingarten have
been associated with this influential East Coast institute.
http://www.familyinstitutecamb.org/
Ian Parker
Ian Parker is based at Manchester Metropolitan University
and a leading voice in critical psychology, having written
and edited a wide range of books along with a community of
highly productive colleagues.
http://www.psychology.mmu.ac.uk/staff/psychology_academic/pr_ian_parker.htm
Discourse and Rhetoric Group, Department of Social
Sciences, Loughborough University
The Loughborough group are leading investigators in the area
of discourse and conversation analysis.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/centres/dargindex.htm
Tom Andersen and Jaako Seikulla
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø
Tom Andersen is a Norwegian psychiatrist who introduced the
reflecting team and a very influential voice in collaborative
therapy. Jaako Seikulla is engaged in innovative research
into collaborative dialogue within mental health settings.
http://uit.no/informasjon/english
Narrative Approaches NarrativeApproaches.Com
is a website managed by Jennifer Freedman, Dean Lobovits,
and David Epston. All three are prominent and well published
narrative practitioners. The site offers a wealth of links,
writings, news, information, and so on. http://www.narrativeapproaches.com/
Yaletown Family Therapy
Yaletown is a well established family practice in Vancouver
that has hosted several important narrative therapy conferences
over the years.
http://www.yaletownfamilytherapy.com/
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The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre—Gail Appel Institute
This Toronto based centre offers a range of training programs
in collaborative therapies.
http://www.hincksdellcrest.org/
Planet Therapy
An innovative website that links therapeutic clients with
therapists and with each other, as well as providing links
to a wide range of important ideas and practitioners.
http://www.planet-therapy.com/pub/pro_about/
Family Therapy Program, University of Calgary
Karl Tomm heads up this program in Calgary. One of family
therapy’s most enduring presences, Karl is a creative
theorist and therapist who has played an instrumental role
in circulating the work of many influential thinkers and practitioners.
The program offers an externship.
http://www.familytherapy.org/
Journal of Systemic Therapies
The JST has evolved with changes in the field of family therapy
over the years and makes a lot of space for constructivist,
social constructionist, collaborative practices.
http://www.guilford.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=periodicals/jnst.htm&cart_id=
New Therapist
Based in South Africa, this journal keeps its eye out for
innovative new practices.
http://www.newtherapist.com/
East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy
Lois Holzman and Fred Newman head up this well established,
New York based organization that grew out projects targeted
at the city’s marginalized. Lois and Fred are highly
innovative theorists and the Institute is ongoingly involved
in new explorations in social therapy while building on its
wide community base.
http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/
Kenneth Gergen
Ken Gergen has been writing about social constructionism since
long before the term was coined in the 1980’s. He is
the arguably the premiere exponent of this philosophy and
combines rigorous scholarship with a forward-looking gaze
that continues to uncover new ideas and practices.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/kgergen1/web/page.phtml?st=home&id=home
Sheila McNamee
Sheila McNamee has been an important voice in social constructionism
for many years and continues to explore the possibilities
of collaborative dialogue.
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~smcnamee/
Lynn Hoffman
Having joined family therapy somewhere into the early stages
of midlife, Lynn has traveled and worked with most of the
key thinkers and practitioners in the field and continues
to engage in innovative practice while providing some of the
field’s most eloquent writing.
http://www.sjc.edu/content.cfm/pageid/947
Brief Family Therapy Centre
Birthplace of solution-focused therapy. The BFTC has a long
and distinguished history and is home base to two of solution-focused
therapy’s most well known practitioners: Insoo Kim Berg
and Steve deShazer.
http://www.brief-therapy.org/
Barry Duncan and Scott D. Miller
Duncan and Miller have been enormously productive writers
in the past decade and have contributed much to the growing
interest in common factors in therapy, and on a strength-based,
collaborative orientation to therapy.
http://www.talkingcure.com
Jane E. Peller
Jane is a key author and practitioner of solution focused
therapy.
1620 W. Thome, Chicago, IL 60660
847-424-9344
http://www.neiu.edu/~jepeller/VITA.html
The Taos Institute
Mary and Kenneth Gergen, Harlene Andersen, Sally Ann Roth
and Sheila McNamee are some of the practitioners and theorists
associated with this dynamic group. The Institute provides
distance education, offers conferences, and provides links
and information regarding key contributors
in the area of social constructionsim.
http://www.taosinstitute.net/
Southern California Counseling Centre
The Centre offers innovative training in postmdoern approaches
to family therapy.
http://www.sccc-la.org/
Grupo Campos Eliseos
GCE is a family therapy agency based in Mexico City show
members have varied and extensive background in a variety
of approaches to collaborative family work. http://www.grupocamposeliseos.com
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