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Wade, Allan

doi:10.1023/a:1026154215299

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“…The interventions are informed by a narrative approach by Australian family therapist Alan Jenkins (1991) and, more recently, Allan Wade's theories of resistance to violence (Wade 1997). The primary treatment goals are that participants; 1.)…”

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confidence: 99%

You’re Not Alone: Mental Health Outcomes in Therapy Groups for Abused Women

2015

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Few evaluations have assessed the outcomes of group therapy for women abused by intimate partners. Most group programs emphasize support rather than offering therapy, although women abused by partners often present with significant clinical mental health issues. This paper describes, BYou're Not Alone,^a 14-week therapy group model for women abused by intimate partners informed by a narrative approach Jenkins (The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 12 (4), 186-195 1991). The results present the demographic characteristics of the 379 women who began group, and a comparison of those who completed treatment (N=214) versus those who dropped out (N=165). Women with less income and a psychiatric history were less likely to complete group, as were women with higher depression, clinical stress, and mental health symptoms. The pretest/posttest outcome evaluation for the completers used measures of mental health symptoms, self-esteem, depression, and clinical stress, finding statistically significant improvements on most measures with moderate effect sizes. Practice implications and suggestions are presented.

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You’re Not Alone: Mental Health Outcomes in Therapy Groups for Abused Women

2015

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“…Not many of Canada's citizens-including mental health professionals-know this history, but it gets re-enacted in so many interactions that Indigenous people have with the mainstream health and mental health system from the point of first contact to the powerful point of assessment and diagnosis. In this way, professionally accepted processes of assessment and diagnoses within mainstream mental health services are complicit in the normalization of ongoing genocide (Coates & Wade, 2007;Duran, 2006;Herman, 1992;Richardson & Reynolds, 2014;Wade, 1997).…”

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The The Violence of Colonization and the Importance of Decolonizing Therapeutic Relationship: The Role of Helper in Centring Indigenous Wisdom

Dupuis-Rossi¹

2020

IJIH

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Engaging existing literature and current mainstream frontline health and mental health practice, this article expands research on the impact of colonization and mainstream mental health practices on Indigenous clients. Through this process, it creates new ground on which decolonizing therapeutic responses to ongoing attempted genocide are introduced, described, and developed. I identify the brutality of historical and contemporary colonization as one of the major influences in undermining Indigenous clients’ health and wellbeing—a perspective that decentres and resists individualistic pathologizing that is the focal point of mainstream psychiatric diagnoses and treatment. I also illustrate the negative impacts of psychiatric assessment for Indigenous clients and demonstrate how mainstream mental health practices, in not acknowledging colonization as the context for Indigenous clients’ suffering, are implicated in ongoing enactments of colonial oppression. The mainstream assessment of Indigenous clients’ suicidality as an individualized mental health disorder is also problematized. I conclude by centring Indigenous ways of knowing and culture in the promotion of health and wellbeing for Indigenous clients.

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“…Whenever conditions deteriorate, everyone feels more hopeless, and questions of how to really make a difference arise more urgently. Allan Wade (1997) describes "small acts of resistance" as being critical in maintaining our ethical coherence in contexts where oppressive structures offer so little opportunity for action. In these moments, small acts of resistance become significant gestures in asserting our values and opposition to abuse.…”

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Therapeutic activism: Supporting emotional resilience of volunteers working in a refugee camp

Hughes¹,

Burck

Roncin³

2020

Psychother Politics Int

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We describe the development of an approach offering emotional support to volunteers who responded to the humanitarian crisis that has left thousands of refugees living in precarious and dangerous conditions across Europe. The Refugee Resilience Collective was set up by a group of therapists drawing on social justice approaches, working on the French–English border. It was recognised that the emotional needs of volunteers were being neglected, putting many at risk of secondary traumatisation and “burnout.” We elaborate ways we set about fostering an environment of self‐care which, we argue, is crucial to sustaining volunteers. We have offered regular consultations to individuals and teams to nurture resilience and the potential for life‐changing growth, to help them manage the challenges of the work and to build their collective resistance to the abusive state system that refugees face. “Doing hope” for others and collective action are crucial components of our approach.

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Cited by 198 publications

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You’re Not Alone: Mental Health Outcomes in Therapy Groups for Abused Women

You’re Not Alone: Mental Health Outcomes in Therapy Groups for Abused Women

The The Violence of Colonization and the Importance of Decolonizing Therapeutic Relationship: The Role of Helper in Centring Indigenous Wisdom

Therapeutic activism: Supporting emotional resilience of volunteers working in a refugee camp

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