This editorial is written a week after a UK election that followed the trend in Western political life towards populism and away from a collective approach to society – across and within nation states. In an effort to prepare to write, following these events, I looked back through the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, over the years, to see how other such major political events were reflected in JCP articles, papers and reviews, and in the editorials. What comes through clearly is that the work that clinicians are and have been doing, both within the United Kingdom and internationally, reflects constantly, but only indirectly, the social, political and cultural realities of the environments in which our work has taken place: the settings, the presenting issues, the models of treatment and the training. With a very few exceptions, the Journal has on the whole not included an explicit comment on the socio-political climate in which we and our patients live, feel and work. Now, with an increased focus within the child psychotherapy community on diversity and equalities, we are more explicitly learning how to work with wider systemic influences, and how to think about our role within them. That knowledge and the understanding of what it means in the consulting room, in the team and in the teaching environment, are likely to become more important and of greater value to our patients and students, at a time when wider social inequalities may become more stark. As part of the ACP’s aim to develop our thinking in relation to diversity, this edition was originally designed as a ‘special issue’, with a focus on aspects of difference and sameness and how they are worked with by child and adolescent psychotherapists. When relatively few articles came in following the call for papers, there was an opportunity to think about what this meant. In the process, we questioned our own decision to put this crucial aspect of practice into a ‘special issue’, with the risk that ‘diversity’ would then be seen as having been attended to, a box ticked, rather than an ongoing and necessary maintained focus. We need this maintained focus on diversity and inequality, if we are to do our patients justice. We also need to maintain pace with other disciplines that have built a significant literature in this aspect of work (for example, systemic family psychotherapists and social workers). The need for every JCP edition to include articles that help us undertake a robust and open exploration of our understanding of working with difference seems even more important in the light of recent political events, where assumptions and beliefs about race and class have arguably played such a significant role. There is a pressing need for us to be interested not just in understanding more about the perspectives of patients from whom we are different, but more importantly to be prepared to examine our own attitudes, biases, and privileges in relation to our patients. JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY 2019, VOL. 45, NO. 3, 253–256 https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2019.1711145

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这篇社论是在英国大选一周后撰写的，该大选顺应了西方政治生活走向民粹主义的趋势，远离了民族国家之间和国家内部的集体社会方法。为了准备写作，在这些事件之后，我回顾了多年来的《儿童心理治疗杂志》，以了解其他此类重大政治事件如何反映在 JCP 文章、论文和评论以及社论中。显而易见的是，临床医生在英国和国际上正在和一直在做的工作不断但只是间接地反映了我们工作所处环境的社会、政治和文化现实：设置、呈现的问题、治疗模型和培训。除了极少数例外，该杂志总体上没有对我们和我们的患者生活、感受和工作的社会政治气候进行明确评论。现在，随着儿童心理治疗社区对多样性和平等性的日益关注，我们更加明确地学习如何应对更广泛的系统影响，以及如何思考我们在其中的角色。在更广泛的社会不平等可能变得更加明显的时候，这些知识和对其在咨询室、团队和教学环境中的意义的理解可能会变得更加重要，对我们的患者和学生来说也具有更大的价值. 作为 ACP 旨在发展我们对多样性的思考的一部分，本期最初被设计为“特刊”，重点关注差异和相同的方面以及儿童和青少年心理治疗师如何处理它们。当论文征集后出现的文章相对较少时，就有机会思考这意味着什么。在此过程中，我们质疑我们自己决定将实践的这一关键方面纳入一个“特殊问题”的风险，“多样性”将被视为已被关注，一个方框，而不是一个持续的和必要的保持专注。如果我们要为我们的患者伸张正义，我们需要保持对多样性和不平等的关注。我们还需要与在这方面的工作中建立重要文献的其他学科（例如，系统性家庭心理治疗师和社会工作者）保持同步。考虑到最近的政治事件，关于种族和阶级的假设和信念可以说起到了这样的作用，每个 JCP 版本都需要包含文章来帮助我们对我们对差异的理解进行有力和开放的探索，这似乎更加重要。重要作用。我们迫切需要不仅要更多地了解与我们不同的患者的观点，而且更重要的是要准备好检查我们自己对患者的态度、偏见和特权。2019 年儿童心理治疗杂志，第一卷。45，没有。3、253–256 https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2019.1711145 关于种族和阶级的假设和信念可以说发挥了如此重要的作用。我们迫切需要不仅要更多地了解与我们不同的患者的观点，而且更重要的是要准备好检查我们自己对患者的态度、偏见和特权。2019 年儿童心理治疗杂志，第一卷。45，没有。3、253–256 https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2019.1711145 关于种族和阶级的假设和信念可以说发挥了如此重要的作用。我们迫切需要不仅要更多地了解与我们不同的患者的观点，而且更重要的是要准备好检查我们自己对患者的态度、偏见和特权。2019 年儿童心理治疗杂志，第一卷。45，没有。3、253–256 https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2019.1711145