AFTA Conversation with Saliha Bava and Tom Strong: Postmodern Therapies: Futures Forming

Join co-editors Tom Strong and Saliha Bava on March 13, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT/ 11:00-12:30 PDT for an AFTA Conversation on The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies as a state-of-the-art account of contemporary postmodern approaches outlining two interrelated articulations of postmodernism and their implications for the synergistic intersections of everyday therapeutic and inquiry practices. Attending to the Handbook’s socio-cultural contributions, the conversation explores how postmodern therapies respond to neoliberal conditions and increasing complexity in practice by reworking how the field understands practice, power, situated knowledge, and relational ethics in a rapidly changing world. Time permitting, the conversation closes with reflections on the collaborative process of making an edited volume of 49 chapters intended to support practitioners navigating these emerging landscapes. Registration is free. Nonmembers are welcome. Please invite your friends, colleagues, and students.

AUTHOR BIOS

Dr. Tom Strong is a professor and counsellor-educator who recently retired from the University of Calgary. He writes on the collaborative, critical and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy – most recently on concept critique and development (particularly with respect to therapy and research), and critical mental health. Among Tom’s books are Medicalizing counselling: Issues and tensions, Patterns in Interpersonal interactions (Co-edited with Karl Tomm, Sally St. George and Dan Wulff), and Social constructionism: Sources and stirrings in theory and practice (co-authored with Andy Lock). He is co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies. For Tom’s website and contact details, please see: https://wpsites.ucalgary.ca/tom-strong/

Dr. Saliha Bava is Program Director and Professor of Marriage & Family Therapy at Mercy University, NY, and a Taos Institute board member. She co-founded the International Network of Collaborative-Dialogic Practices and the International Journal of Collaborative-Dialogic Practices. A co-author of The Relational Workplace and The Relational Book for Parenting, she is also the co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies. She runs the Relational Play Lab at Mercy, which is co-hosting the Co-Creating Social Worlds Symposium in NYC in February with the Taos Institute.