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should still be managed following the systemic guiding principles.
Section 9.
Finally, therapists should consider the proscribed practices which should not form a significant
proportion of their work, and refer back to these during the course of therapy to ensure proscribed
practices do not emerge during the course of therapy. Section 10.
This manual has an accompanying questionnaire for therapists and an adherence protocol to assess the
degree to which therapist practice reflects that of the manual. This may be used as a personal check for
therapists or trainers using the manual, or more formally by an independent researcher to assess adherence
when the manual is being used as a research tool.
1.4 Ethical & Culturally Sensitive Practice
In using this manual therapists should pay keen attention to ensuring their practice is both ethical and
culturally sensitive. Their practice should comply with the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic
Practice (AFT): Code of Conduct and Ethical Guidelines. Therapists should remain curious and open
minded in working with families, and this may be especially important where the individuals/families are of
a different gender, cultural or societal background to that of the therapist. Care should be taken in the
assumptions and agendas therapists develop during therapy in this regard.
1.5 Clinical Examples
All of the clinical material used in this manual has been adapted from extracts of therapy undertaken at
Leeds Family Therapy & Research Centre. Identifying details have been removed from the material, and the
dialogue modified to protect confidentiality. We would like to thank all of the families and therapists who
have given permission for the therapy they undertook to be used for research. Without this permission the
research project to develop this manual would not have been possible.
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