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Exploring Decision-Making with Response-Based Practice

A Conversation with Allan Wade and Cathy Richardson - Demonstrating Response-Based Planning in the Context of Decision-Making

Response-based practice is generally used to help people who have been harmed by violence, oppression and mistreatment. However, as an approach, it can also be used to explore a person’s aspirations, hopes, plans and possibilities. In this counselling demonstration, Allan Wade, co-founder of response-based practice speaks with Cathy Richardson (moi) exploring her thoughts about one day moving back to her former stomping grounds on Vancouver Island. RESPONSE-BASED PRACTICE-informed therapists explore social interaction, looking at situations in context and trying to understand that social responses that a person receives from others in the world. RESPONSE-BASED PRACTICE’s basis tenets including upholding dignity, exploring responses (including acts of resistance) to challenging situations, understanding a person’s preferences. The therapist aims for clarity by using accurate language and avoiding obfuscations or minimizing concerns.

Here is a link to Allan Wade’s article “Small Acts of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression”.

https://www.responsebasedpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Small-Acts-of-Living.pdf

It is our great delight and honour to share that Allan Wade was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2024. Congratulations to Allan and cudos for the years of service to victim/survivors of violence.

See. https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/dr-allan-wade-appointed-to-the-order-of-canada-869474816.html

The article states:


VICTORIA, BC, Dec. 19, 2024 /CNW/ - Dr. Allan Wade, C.M. has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada – one of the country's highest civilian honours – in recognition of his work in developing Response-Based Practice, a specialized approach to addressing violence. Response-Based Practice evolved from a method of therapy to a framework for improving institutional responses in law enforcement, criminal justice, family law, therapy, child protection, refuges/shelters, victim/survivor and offender treatment, research, and education.

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