About the Professors

David Paré

Assistant Professor
LMX 231
Telephone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 4039
Email: dpare@uottawa.ca

Research interests and scholarly activities

• Counsellor Education and supervision
• Social constructionist theory and practice in counselling and therapy
• Reflecting teams in counselling and supervision
• Collaborative practice groups

Teaching fields

• Micro-counselling
• Multicultural counselling
• Counselling theory and practice
• Counselling applications in the school context

Bio

David Paré's research is focused on collaborative approaches to counselling and counsellor education/supervision informed by social constructionist and narrative ideas and practices. He has published and presented extensively on the use of reflecting processes in counselling and therapy. More recently he has also begun to explore mindfulness applications in therapeutic work.

Professor Paré is principal investigator on a 3-year project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada entitled Co-Constructing Knowledge among Counsellor Communities of Practice. The research is centred on a range of “collaborative practice groups”—large counsellor supervision groups which encourage peer mentoring and lateral learning.

Selected Publications

Books Edited:

Paré, D.A. and Larner, G. (Eds.)(2004). Collaborative practice in psychology and therapy. Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press.

Strong, T. and Paré, D.A. (Eds.).(2004). Furthering talk: advances in the discursive therapies. New York. N.Y.: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Chapters in Books:

Audet, C., & Paré, D. A. (2009). The Collaborative Counselling Website: Using video e-learning via Blackboard Vista to enrich counselor training. In G. R. Walz, J. C. Bleuer, & R. K. Yep (Eds.), Compelling Counseling Interventions: VISTAS 2009. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association,  pp. 305 – 315.

Paré, D.A., Richardson, B., and Tarragona, M. (in press) Watching the Train: Mindfulness and Inner Dialogue in Therapist Skills Training, in S. Hick (Ed.), Mindfulness and Social Work.

Paré, D.A.(2008). Invited response to Chapter Five: Discourse, positioning, and deconstruction in G. Monk, J. Winslade, & S. Sinclair, New Horizons in Multicultural Counselling, 137 – 139. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.

McAuliffe, G.J., Grothaus, T., Paré, D.A., & Wininger, A. (2007). The practice of culturally alert counseling. In G. J. McAuliffe (Ed.) Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction, 570 – 631. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Strong, T. and Paré, D.A.(2004).  Striving for perspicuity.  In T. Strong and D.A. Paré (Eds.) Furthering Talk: Innovations in the Discursive Therapies. Pp. 1 – 14. New York. N.Y.: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Paré, D.A. and Larner, G. (2004). Towards an ethic of hospitality.  In D.A. Paré and G. Larner (Eds.), Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy, pp. 1 – 5. Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press.

Paré, D.A. and Majchrzak Rombach, M.A. (2003) Therapeutic letters to young persons.  In C.F. Sori and L. Hecker (Eds.) The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: pp. 199-203.  Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press.

Paré, D. A. (1997). Living a new story. In L. L. Hecker & S. Deacon (Eds.) The therapist's notebook: pp. 7-12.  New York: The Haworth Press.

Papers/Reviews in Refereed Journals:

Gehart, D., & Paré, D.A. (in press). Suffering and the relationship with the problem in postmodern therapies: A Buddhist re-visioning. Journal of Family Psychotherapy.

Paré, D.A. (2007) Taking a position: Therapist training and the politics of meaning.  Journal of Systemic Therapies 26(3), 11- 14.

Jorniak, E, & Paré, D.A. (2007). Teaching narrative therapy in Russia. Journal of Systemic Therapies 26(3), 57 – 71.

Paré, D.A. & Tarragona, M.  (2006).  Generous pedagogy: Teaching and learning postmodern therapies. Journal of Systemic Therapies 25(4), 1-7.

Paré, D.A., Augusta-Scott, T., Freedman, J., & Young, K. (2006).  Unpacking the healing metaphor. Journal of Systemic Therapies 25(1) 68-79.

Paré, D.A., & Lysack, M. (2006) Exploring inner dialogue in counsellor education. Canadian Journal of Counselling 40(3), 131- 144.

Paré, D.A., Bondy, J., & Malhotra, C. (2006).  Performing respect: Using enactments in group work with men who have abused. Journal of Systemic Therapies 25(2), 64-79.