Exploring the Unsaid

Barry Mason is a former Director of the Institute of Family Therapy. He has been involved in the training of systemic therapists and practitioners since 1983, as well as in developing post-qualifying training programmes in supervision, and co-developing criteria for the registration of supervisors and supervision courses in the UK.

Series Editors’ Foreword , The Institute of Family Therapy , Foreword , Introduction , Addressing the Context , “Race”, ethnicity, and child welfare , Theoretical Perspectives , Culture, self, and cross-ethnic therapy , Uncertainty, risk-taking, and ethics in therapy , Practice Perspectives , Ethnic sameness and difference in family and systemic therapy , The African Families Project: A black and white issue , “Strangers in foreign lands” , Visible differences: individual and collective risk-taking in working cross-culturally , A risky balance: striving to merge professional white issues and personal black issues , Personal and Professional Development Perspectives , Getting it right, getting it wrong: developing an internal discourse about ethnicity and difference , Risky business: The rewards and demands of cross-cultural working with colleagues