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Reflections In Systemic Family Psychotherapy And Adult Mental Health Services In The South East Of Ireland; And Beyond., Sean Edward Boland, Annette Byrne, Caroline Kavanagh, Sean O'Neill, Catherine Mahon, Kate Doran, Wille Hackett Jan 2020

Reflections In Systemic Family Psychotherapy And Adult Mental Health Services In The South East Of Ireland; And Beyond., Sean Edward Boland, Annette Byrne, Caroline Kavanagh, Sean O'Neill, Catherine Mahon, Kate Doran, Wille Hackett

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Systemic Family Psychotherapy (SFP) has been involved in the Carlow Kilkenny South Tipperary Adult Mental Services since 1994: in the main this involved meeting with service users, their families, couples and friends. However, from 2012 to 2019 five SFPs retired. This occurred when decisions were made by some Mental Health Management not to replace those SFPs that retired: thereby reducing the number of SFPs in the Southeast Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS); presumably due to funding difficulties at that time. However, as the months and years went by it became oblivious that two AMHSs were not going to employ SPTs. …