Response-based therapy is the application of response-based practice (abbreviated as RBP) in the area of therapy. The overall approach conceptualizes humans as active agents responding to and within richly complex social contexts. It is informed by feminism, social justice, and human rights. This approach leaves behind the radical, intra-psychic focus on the individual in isolation that is so common in psychology and psychotherapy (Coates, 2013) . The therapeutic approach is a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach for responding to people who are experiencing difficulties of any sort (e.g., marriage, grief, victimization, perpetration of violence, etc.). The approach was developed in the 1990s by Linda Coates and Allan Wade with some contributions by Nick Todd  . The approach involves analyzing social interaction, social context, social responses, and how the individual is responding to and making sense of this complexly rich psycho-social situation. The approach has been found to be extremely useful in working with victims and perpetrators of violence. Coates Wade are both experts in social interaction and this background allowed them to analyze what victims and perpetrator's actually do rather than accept wide-spread myths about what they are thought to do. Coates articulated the difference between mutual and unilateral acts and that violent acts are frequently misrepresented as mutual. In keeping with this, victim's are falsely understood as passive recipients of violence whereas they actually actively resist it (c.f., "Small Acts of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression".; Coates & Wade, 2004 Discourse and Society). However, after decades of practice and research, it has been shown that whenever people are mistreated, they resist.
Response-based therapy is the application of response-based practice (abbreviated as RBP) in the area of therapy. The overall approach conceptualizes humans as active agents responding to and within richly complex social contexts. It is informed by social justice, and human rights. This approach leaves behind the radical, intra-psychic focus on the individual in isolation that is so common in psychology and psychotherapy . The therapeutic approach is a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach for responding to people who are experiencing difficulties of any sort (e.g., marriage, grief, victimization, perpetration of violence, etc.). The approach was developed in the 1990s by Allan Wade with some contributions by Nick Todd and Linda Coates . The approach involves analyzing social interaction, social context, social responses, and how the individual is responding to and making sense of this complexly rich psycho-social situation. The approach has been found to be extremely useful in working with victims and perpetrators of violence. Allan Wade is an expert in social interaction and this background allowed them to analyze what victims and perpetrator's actually do rather than accept wide-spread myths about what they are thought to do. Wade articulated the difference between mutual and unilateral acts and that violent acts are frequently misrepresented as mutual. In keeping with this, victim's are falsely understood as passive recipients of violence whereas they actually actively resist it (c.f., "Small Acts of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression".; Coates & Wade, 2004 Discourse and Society). However, after decades of practice and research, it has been shown that whenever people are mistreated, they resist.
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feminism,
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(Coates, 2013)
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Linda Coates and
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Coates
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Wade are both experts
Allan Wade is an expert
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Wade