Dear colleagues
It has taken us a bit longer than anticipated to launch, but I’m delighted to welcome you to the new, e-discussion group (or listserv) for Child and Family Therapy Research (CaFTR). We hope this will become a space where colleagues can exchange ideas, ask questions, share journal articles that may be of interest, and generally become a virtual forum to promote dialogue among those doing (and/or following) research in child and family therapy.
The group has been set up by the CaFTR special interest group within the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). You don’t need to be a member of SPR to take part in this e-group, although we would encourage you to join, as the SPR has an ever-growing body of child and family therapy researchers, who present at SPR conferences and publish in the society’s journal, Psychotherapy Research. See www.psychotherapyresearch.org for more info about SPR.
We hope that using this e-forum will be fairly easy. If you wish to post something, simply send an email to caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org and all members of this e-forum (already over 200) will receive your email. You can reply to messages by using ‘reply to all’. (If for some reason you want to reply privately to a person who sent a message, please use their personal email address). If you are starting a new topic, it would be helpful if you can put the topic name in the ‘subject’ line, so that others can see what your email is about.
The group depends entirely on the enthusiasm and activity of its members, so if you would like this forum to thrive, please do a) send your own questions or b) updates about your own research activity, and reply when others have questions that you can help with. We welcome students and trainees as well as more experienced therapy researchers, so please don’t hesitate to speak up, and make use of the collective wisdom of the group!
If anyone wishes to unsubscribe from this e-forum, simply send an email to Sven Schneider at sven.schneider@uni-ulm.de . It is also possible that some of you may have been registered more than once, and will receive multiple copies of each email. If so, please let Sven know and he’ll try and sort the problem out.
Best wishes – and looking forward to interesting discussions!
Nick Midgley
On behalf of the CaFTR special interest group