The Gilead Downs Family Therapy Centre was established in 1981 and seeks to make a difference in the lives of individuals, couples and families by providing effective counselling and psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families and resourcing human service providers with training, ongoing professional development, resources, and consultation
These links provide access to a range of sites providing access to discussion groups, articles, papers and bibliographies, training opportunities, seminars and workshops, and latest research.
Centro Milanese de Terapia della Famiglia: http://www.cmtf.it Milan School’s on-line forum providing a conference for scholarly and clinical discussion of all aspects of systemic and family practice.
The Dulwich Centre:http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/ South Australian site providing information about narrative therapy, training workshops, books and journals.
Solution Focused Family Therapy
Bill O’Hanlon’s Site:http://brieftherapy.com/ Helpful resource for the practice of solution-focused therapy.
Brief Family Therapy Center:http://www.brief-therapy.org/ Information about the BFTC, research, books and publications, Insoo Kim Berg, Steve deShazer, Gale Miller, Peter deJong. Includes details of foreign seminars.
Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change:http://www.talkingcure.com/ Latest research on what “works” in (solution-based) therapy.
The Solution Group:http://solutionmind.com Contributions by Charlie Johnson and Yvonne Dolan who have contributed ideas about using solution-focused brief therapy with clients who have experienced long-term sexual abuse, with couples experiencing domestic violence and clients grappling with chronic pain.
Reteaming:http://reteaming.com Ben Furman and Tapani Ahola (Finland) have applied “solution talk” to a variety of populations. Their re-teaming approach uses solutionfocused ideas to help build a collaborative approach to problem solving and solution building in a variety of practical situations.
Metropolitan Centre for Object Relations Theory and Practice:http://www.objectrelations.com/ New York based centre offering training programs, research, discussion, reading lists, downloading of papers and links to other sites.
Object Relations Psychotherapy:http://objectrelations.org Information for clinicians on object relations, current articles, chat room.
