About Allan Wade:
Allan Wade Ph.D. lives on the unceded lands of the Quw’utsun Indigenous First Nations, on southern Vancouver Island, Canada. He works as a family therapist, independent scholar, and consultant with a primary interest in promoting socially just responses to violence, broadly defined. For many years Allan has been interested in the question of how adults and children respond to and resist violence and other forms of humiliation.
Allan is best known for his part in developing Response-Based Practice, a method of individual and family therapy and community development, a framework for research and analysis, and a guide for practice across the institutions that respond to violence (i.e., child protection, policing, criminal justice, family law, journalism, research, therapy, and shelter/refuge work).
Allan provides training and consultation to organizations in Canada and abroad and has published several articles and book chapters on research and practice. In December, 2024, Allan was appointed to the Order of Canada (C.M.) for his work in addressing violence and developing response-based practice, with colleagues domestically and internationally.
INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE: Using microanalysis to transform abstract concepts into specific actions by Karin Thorslund, Sweden & Allan Wade, Canada
In this workshop, we will present interviewing methods used to elicit accounts of micro-level responses in social interaction, including resistance to violence and social responses, using a recorded interview as an example.
The workshop builds on Dr. Allan Wade’s lecture, “Between Abstraction and Interaction”, where core concepts of Response-Based Practice will be introduced. Participants will be invited to videorecord and analyse their own practice interviews, using the methods of microanalysis.
You will leave the workshop with a tool you can use to explore your own methods of translating abstract concepts into social interaction. Microanalysis is both a research method and a valuable tool for integrating theoretical concepts with clinical practice.
Please make sure to bring your smartphone with headphones!
About Karin Thorslund:
Karin is coordinating and teaching at the Psychotherapy program with a family and systems-oriented approach at the Department of social work, Gothenburg university. She has been experimenting with using microanalysis in the training of psychotherapy students to facilitate the integration of theory and clinical practice, and recently published a paper on this topic in Journal of Systemic therapy.
Karin is a certified psychologist, certified psychotherapist, and Ph.D in psychology.
She provides psychotherapy, training and supervision in private practice. Her current research interests include microanalysis of conversations in psychotherapy and social work settings.