Non-violent resistance (NVR) has been developed in family work as an approach to address children’s self-destructive and violent behaviour. It is based on the principles of change through peaceful protest and active resistance. This therapeutic approach is complementary to psychotherapeutic ways of working; where families are often co-referred alongside psychotherapeutic intervention for a child.
Non-violent resistance (NVR) has been developed in family work as an approach to address children’s self destructive and violent behaviour. It is based on the principles of change through peaceful protest and active resistance. In the political context of social change this was the model adopted by Gandhi and Martin Luther King among others.
NVR therapy in family work is located in the present whilst looking toward the future in its ways of bringing about change.
NVR focuses on dynamics within family relationships and NVR training seeks to support parents in the development of planned action to resist factors impacting on those relationships, for example, child-to-parent violence. Together parents and practitioners take a holistic approach, accounting for the needs of all the individuals within the family – working to identify barriers within relationships which stand in the way of being able to thrive as a family unit and seeking to find ways to overcome these barriers in order to build a more positive future.
In order to help to bring about change the key areas of focus of NVR are:
Typically this work does not involve the direct engagement of the child.
NVR training offers an optimistic and positive approach that has been shown to be effective in bringing about enduring change.
This therapeutic approach is complementary to psychotherapeutic ways of working; where families are often co-referred alongside psychotherapeutic intervention for a child.
NVR therapy is available at our Hove and Lewes practices, as well online through our associate Georgie Leake who has extensive experience of working with children and adults with SEND and over fifteen years experience of teaching in both primary and secondary school settings, in particular supporting children with ASD and ADHD.
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