Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) parent training

Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) parent training is a method aimed at addressing harmful and destructive behaviours, particularly child-to-parent violence and abuse. Its goal is to help parents resist the problematic and often self-destructive behaviours of their children.

❇️  As research indicates it is crucial to directly confront aggression or self-destructive behaviours in specific ways with careful, supportive planning (PartnershipProjects, n.d.), much time in NVR is spent planning, preparing and carrying out concrete action against the violence in life outside the session. Parents/carers learn to acquire a position of strength, developing resistance against the violence in a step-by-step manner, discussing and planning each new step whilst reflecting and building on what they experience in the process.

❇️  Outcome studies have shown that NVR is effective in improving the behaviour of a large percentage of young people, reducing parents’ feelings of helplessness and raising their confidence as well as bringing a more peaceful atmosphere in the family (Omer & Lebowitz, 2016)