Response based therapy

Response based therapy

Response based therapy is a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach to treating psychological trauma resulting from violence, based on the theory that whenever people are badly-treated, they resist. Incorporating elements of Solution focused brief therapy, Narrative therapy, and discourse analysis, it was first proposed by a Canadian Family Therapist and Researcher, Dr. Allan Wade in his 1997 article "Small Acts of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression." [Wade, A. (1997). Small acts of living: Everyday resistance to violence and other forms of oppression. "Contemporary Family Therapy", 19(1), 23-39] .

Therapeutic methods of response-based therapy are based on two theoretical foundations: (1) That along-side accounts of violence in history, there exists an often-unrecognized parallel history of "determined, prudent, and creative resistance," and (2) language is frequently used in a manner that (a) conceals violence, (b) obscures and mitigates perpetrator responsibility, (c) conceals victims' resistance, and (d) blames or pathologizes victims. This second principle employs "discourse analysis" and is referred to in response based therapy as the "four discursive operations." [Coates, L., & Wade, A. (2004). Telling It Like It Isn’t: Obscuring Perpetrator Responsibility for Violent Crime. " Discourse and Society," 15(5), 3-30.]

This presupposition of resistance as a natural response to violence is used to engage clients in in-depth conversations about how they responded to specific acts of violence. Therapy consists of using language to (1) expose violence, (2) clarify perpetrators' responsibility, (3) elucidate and honor victims' resistance, and (4) contest victim blaming [Todd, N. & Wade, A. (2003) 'Coming to Terms with Violence and Resistance: From a Language of Effects to a Language of Responses', in T. Strong & D. Pare (eds), "Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies", New York: Kluwer Academic Plenum. p. 152.] .

References

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* [http://www.calgarywomensshelter.com Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter] . (2005). [http://www.calgarywomensshelter.com/html/education/documents/ResistancetoViolence-AResponseBasedPerspective.pdf Resistance to Violence and Abuse in Intimate Relationships: A Response-Based Perspective] . Available from Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter, P.O. Box 52051 Edmonton Trail N., Calgary, Alberta T2E 8K9

* Coates, L. & Wade, A. (2004). Telling It Like It Isn’t: Obscuring Perpetrator Responsibility for Violent Crime. "Discourse and Society, 15"(5), 3-30.

* Coates, L. & Wade, A. (2007). Language and Violence: Analysis of Four Discursive Operations. "Journal of Family Violence, 22"(7), 511-522

* Todd, N. and Wade, A. (2001). "The Language of Responses Versus the Language of Effects: Turning Victims into Perpetrators and Perpetrators into Victims", unpublished manuscript, Duncan, British Columbia, Canada.

* Todd, N. & Wade, A. (2003). 'Coming to Terms with Violence and Resistance: From a Language of Effects to a Language of Responses', in T. Strong & D. Pare (eds), "Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies", New York: Kluwer Academic Plenum.

* Wade, A. (1997). Small Acts of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression, "Journal of Contemporary Family Therapy, 19", 23–40.

* Wade, A. (1999). "Resistance to Interpersonal Violence: Implications for the practice of therapy." University of Victoria, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Psychology.

* Wade, A. (2007). Despair, resistance, hope: Response-based therapy with victims of violence. In C. Flaskas, I. McCarthy, and J. Sheehan (Eds.), "Hope and despair in narrative and family therapy: Adversity, forgiveness and reconciliation" (pp. 63-74). New York , NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. HF


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