Who should see this series? Practitioners in the victim services, mental health, social services, and criminal justice systems will find this series exciting, refreshing and immediately useful. This approach can be used with any victim of ill treatment or trauma, both children and adults: victims of spousal abuse, elder abuse, survivors of residential schools, victims of sexual abuse, armed robbery, accidents and disasters. Program One: Honouring Resistance: A Workshop with Allan Wade In this program, Allan Wade presents a response-based approach to therapy with victims and perpetrators of violence and examines the connection between violence and language. The response-based approach stems in part from the observation that whenever individuals are badly treated, they resist. Perpetrators anticipate resistance from their victims and take specific steps to conceal and suppress it. With a few important exceptions, victims/survivors are represented in a language of effects, as passive and socially-conditioned recipients of abuse. Similarly, violent behaviour is typically represented as an effect of social or psychological forces that overwhelm the perpetrator and compel him to engage in violent acts. Such accounts tend to conceal the nature and extent of violence, mitigate perpetrators' responsibility, conceal victims' resistance, and blame or pathologize victims. In contrast, the response-based approach consists of practices that expose violence, clarify perpetrators' responsibility, elucidate and honour victims' resistance, and contest the blaming and pathologizing of victims. (60 minutes) Program 2A: Honouring Resistance: A Response-Based Client Interview In this program, you'll see Allan Wade use the response-based interview process with a client. Although the client is not a victim of extreme trauma or abuse, you will witness a profound change in the client's self-image and even of the specific memories of the event. (22 minutes) Program 2B: Interview Commentary, Client Reflections and Summary Allan and the client provide a running commentary on the process of the preceding interview. You will learn the steps to response-based interviewing while hearing the client?s feedback about this respectful and collaborative approach. In conclusion, Dr. Wade summarizes the process. (80 minutes) |