This session will focus on the increasingly turbulent world in which we all live and consider how we deliver family therapy based on the principles of belonging, dignity, and justice. Social upheaval, conflict, political and environmental instability is growing often at an alarming rate. For those in the global north increasingly we are in it and not immune from the anxiety and concerns it may create. In this context in integrated healthcare, how do we deliver family therapy based on the principles of belonging, dignity and justice. This workshop will explore how as practitioners in integrated healthcare we manage our own and our families' anxieties and concerns. Whilst working effectively with those of our patients and their families. The workshop with use a variety of teaching methods, case studies, group discussion, presentation of theory and data, group tasks, and digital feedback software.
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