Caring for Troubled Lives
Therapy
Jane Jarrett
(MSc Systemic Family Psychotherapist) (UKCP)​
In addition to the therapeutic milieu, children can receive one to one or family therapy (if appropriate or requested), from Jane Jarrett MSc Systemic Family Psychotherapist on a regular basis, and/or CAMHS intervention if required.
Systemic Therapy emerged from systems theory, which sees families/groups as living systems whose dynamics are constantly altering as each person deals with life, therefore creating unpredictable outcomes. So, by viewing people in relation to each other rather than to focus mainly or exclusively on what is happening just within the individual. And that we are all mutually influencing and being influenced by each other.
Systemic therapy explores not only how people communicate together, but what they communicate, aiming to identify and explore the patterns of belief and behaviour to promote change.
Many explanations of behaviour, are in a person’s past, i.e. “She is depressed because she wasn’t loved as a child”. Systemic therapy would see this situation as created and maintained in the here and now relationships, and would focus on how the person is ‘doing’ depression.
For example, a young person who feels isolated may show this by not talking to people and becoming isolated. An effect of her behaviour is that people do not talk to her’ which confirms her feelings of isolation. This is a pattern, and if the young person was supported in making social connections, then they would be more likely to receive social interactions thus helping her feel less depressed.
Many of the young people who come to Springfield Road Children’s Home will have experienced problematic relationships, and by thinking systemically we help them make positive changes to the way they relate to others.
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“Improving the lives of children and young people who live here.
By providing high quality care, a safe environment, and where high aspirations exist, to help children achieve their best outcomes and fulfil their full potential”
Jane Jarrett
(MSc Systemic Family Psychotherapist) (UKCP)