Dr. Yoshiyuki Takano
Positions
Assistant Professor
Werklund School of Education, Specialization, Counselling Psychology
Contact information
Background
Credentials
R. Psych., College of Registered Psychologists Alberta,
C. Psych., PEI Psychologists Registration Board,
C. Psych., College of New Brunswick Psychologists,
Clinical Counsellor, BC Association of Clinical Counsellor,
Educational Background
PhD Counselling Psychology, University of British Columbia,
MA Counselling Psychology, Trinity Western University,
Research
Areas of Research
Dr. Takano is developing an evidence-based therapeutic approach for domestic violence intervention approach, the Co-Constructing Responsibility Approach (CCRA). The research explores how a person's sense of shame can be utilized to promote taking responsibility for choosing non-violent and abusive behaviours. CCRA implements and is informed by narrative therapy, a concept from Gills Deleuze and Virginia Satir's family systems model.
Shame is known to have a critical impact on self and other harmful behaviours, such as addiction and violence. Dr. Takano is interested in exploring the violent criminal offenders' experience of shame and how it can be dealt with through counselling. In Dr. Takano's work, shame is examined through a post-structuralist perspective and discourse analysis.
The relapse prevention model is often implemented in group therapy intervention programs for intimate partner violence (IPV). However, the concept of the relapse prevention model often relies on a cognitive behaviour-based or risk management-based approach. Dr. Takano is interested in conceptualizing and implementing a second-order change in the relapse prevention model in the IPV intervention program to create a more permanent and transformative change to resistance to violence and abuse.
This research aims to develop a narrative-based violence risk assessment model to assess and help manage a violence risk for patients who are involved in the Criminal Code Review Board. Based on the notion of risk as essentially dynamic and contextual (Hart, 2001, 2008; Kapur, 2000), Dr. Takano is trying to conceptualize risk as a socially constructed concept and exploring the way in which to implement narrative inquiry as a way of analyzing forensic patients' accounts in risk assessment interviews. In risk assessment interviews, information is often expressed in the form of narratives that people construct. The narrative provides us with access to the structure of patients’ lived experience of self, the world, and its meaning (Burr, 1995) and thus may provide vital information for the risk assessment interview process. Their use of language and metaphor, both responsive and resistant, when describing their previous acts of violence, will be used to highlight the ongoing co-constructing process clinicians can utilize in the process of assessing and formulating patients’ risk for violence.
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Publications
- (under review). Co-constructing responsibility approach (CCRA): Facilitating change in men who are violent and abusive toward their intimate partners and children. Takano, Y. (2024)
- Meaning of life according to a Japanese sample. Takano, Y., & Wong, P.T.P. International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology. 12(2), 1-6. (2023)
- Deterritorializing and decolonizing shame in the culture of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) in Japan. Takano, Y., & Wong, P.T.P. In C. Mayer, E. Vanderheiden, & P.T.P. Wong (Eds.). Sham 4.0: Investigating an emotion in digital worlds and the fourth industrial revolution. pp. 147-158. Springer. (2021)
- Co-constructing meaning: Women and men define taking responsibility and making amends. Takano, Y. In T. Augusta-Scott, K. Scott, & L. M. Tutty (Eds.), Innovations in Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Research and Practice. New York: Routledge. (2017)
- Stories of change in men who were violent and abusive to their partners: A collaborative narrative inquiry (Unpublished Doctoral dissertation). Takano, Y. University of British Columbia. (2014)
- Coping with domestic violence by Japanese Canadian women. Takano, Y. In L. Wong & P.T.P. Wong (Eds.), Stress and Coping: A multicultural perspective. pp. 319-360. New York: Springer. (2006)
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