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‘Drawing the Circle That Takes Them In’: Liz Mackenzie in Conversation
Author(s) -
Crago Hugh
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1375/anft.28.2.71
Subject(s) - dysfunctional family , conversation , project commissioning , government (linguistics) , family therapy , publishing , psychology , management , sociology , psychiatry , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , communication , economics
Liz Mackenzie's involvement with family therapy began in 1978 at the Psychiatry Department of the Adelaide Children's Hospital. She contrasts the field then and now, naming some of the dysfunctional facets of family therapy. She became manager of a specialist foster/residential program in the non‐government sector, definitely the most difficult, extending and satisfying period in her working life. In 2007, she is back where it began for her, in the (renamed) Women's and Children's Hospital, working in a Child and Adolescent Community Health team