Non-Violent Resistance

Non-violent resistance (NVR) is a psychological approach for parents, counsellors, teachers, and caregivers working with children and adolescents. It gives practical, evidence-based advice on overcoming children's aggressive and controlling behavior to reduce parental helplessness, parent-child conflicts, problem behaviors, and family discord.

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Non-violent resistance (NVR) is an approach for parents and other caregivers that helps to increase presence and overcome impulsive and dangerous behaviors, while reducing conflict and escalation. The practical, evidence-based advice accompanies a detailed list of all the new applications of NVR and an overview of the supporting literature. A step-by-step presentation of the treatment is laid out alongside a useful model on escalation and its prevention. The approach achieves high parent engagement and cooperation, with over twenty controlled studies showing that NVR effectively reduces parental helplessness, parental impulsiveness, parent–child conflicts, and family discord.