Video: Working in violence and trauma (Bird & Wade, 2007)
Johnella Bird and Alan Wade offer novel and ethical ideas on what to do, and what to consider - when therapists are working with persons subjected to violence, abuse and trauma
Video: Absent but implicit (White, 2005)
Michael White discusses the therapeutic ideas of the absent but implicit/double listening - key concepts in narrative therapy practice.
Video: Multiple identities to stand in (White, 2005)
Michael White discusses narrative practice ideas that interrupt totalizing identities of men who are violent.
Video: Accounts of resistance (Wade, 2007)
Allan Wade begins his Response Based Practice discussion on violence and abuse addressing the social act of violence and the importance of a full rendering of the victims response/resistance to the crime.
Video: Concealing resistance (Wade, 2007)
Alan Wade stresses the vital importance of documenting the victims response and resistance to violence because - what is often documented is the woman's 'mental health issues' and - not her resistance
Video: Mutual and unilateral actions (Wade, 2007)
Alan Wade makes the important distinction between unilateral and mutual acts of violence.
Video: Mass assumptions (Wade, 2007)
Alan Wade outlines the mass assumptions about violence that need to be challenged.
Video: Responding to commissions and colonization (Augusta-Scott, Arteaga, Jenkins, MacDonald, 2010)
Todd Augusta-Scott interviews Alan Jenkins regarding a government commission that was set up to listen to community stories of how the government had been neglectful in responding to violence and abuse.
Video: Reproducing violence & social responsibilities (Augusta-Scott, Arteaga, Jenkins, Macdonald, 2010)
A discussion with Todd Augusta-Scott, Rosa Arteaga, Alan Jenkins, and Angela MacDonald regarding the many ways therapists can - despite our well meaning attempts - be reproducing of violence and trauma.
Reading: The constitution of men’s lives workshop handout (White, 1996)
Michael White's work began to construct questions to address and deconstruct specific cultural influences, trainings and demands of dominant masculinity. Read and study his 1996 workshop handout on the constitution of men's lives
