Eli Lebowitz, director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders, Yale School of Medicine, Child Study Center, presents the SPACE Program (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) - an NVR informed parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety and OCD. SPACE works by reducing parental accommodation of child symptoms and increasing supportive parental behavior. NVR-informed tools for coping with child reactions to reduced accommodation are a key element of SPACE. This talk will provide an overview of The SPACE Program and will present data from clinical trials demonstrating its acceptability, feasibility, and efficacy. Neurobiological findings from brain imaging and endocrinological research underscoring the key roles of parents in child anxiety regulation, and the importance of addressing parental accommodation of child symptoms will also be presented.

Irit Schorr-Sapir, clinical psychologist and director of the ADHD clinic and the ADHD Center , in Schneider Children's Medical Center, Israel, discusses her work woith families of children with ADHD. HSe presents a study which included over 100 families for children with ADHD. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of NVR parent training on the child's ADHD symptoms and associated problems and disorders. The results show that after treatment, both children and parents, showed significant improvement in their condition in many ways, an improvement that maintained after a follow-up period. Another interesting data was the low dropout rate - only 5% of all families receiving treatment. The lecture will present the treatment that was given to the families, the study results and its implications, along with thoughts for further research.

Workshop on non transition by Dan Dulberger and Gina Dimitropoulos at the 40th Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Virtual Conference, September 13, 2020

Diane Purper-Ouakil, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the university hospital of Montpellier, France, and Nathalie Franc, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Unit of Child and Adolescnt Psychiatry- Saint Eloi Hospital (MPEA1), present their NVR work with families of "Tyranical Children" - In our clinical practice we sometimes meet families in which the child has taken over the power and controls his parents, creating a reversed family hierarchy. This situation is generally installed progressively with a child manifesting increasing disruptive behavior in the family context, such as verbal and physical aggressivity, threatening behavior and rages. Contrary to children and adolescents with typical conduct disorder, this severe externalized behavior is not present in contexts outside the family. However, these youngsters often show co-occurrent psychiatric disorders such as anxiety disorders and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The family dynamics is generally characterized by an extreme accomodation of parents and an overcautious educative style. We also find an overrepresentation of somatic diseases in the child or parents weakened by age or handicap. These children typically resist change and engagement in classical therapeutic management. We have adapted a NVR-based group format for these parents with severely tyrannic children. This program consists of 13 thematic sessions of 90 minutes each. The present talk will outline clinical characterisics of children and adolescents with conduct disorder confined to family context, the different topics covered by the program and describe results of our pilot study showing improvements in parental self-efficacy and parental attitudes.

Haim Omer, the originator of NVR, disucsses the challenge of Convincing parents & teachers to ask for support. All implementations of NVR and The New Authority require support networks. Many practitioners find it hard to help parents or teachers to overcome the privacy barrier and ask for support. In result support networks are often very small or virtually inexistent. The obstacles to the development of a support network are many: the automatic nature of the privacy reflex, feeling that the need of others would show that the parents or teachers are weak, the fear that others will be critical of the parents or the child, the belief that others are too busy to help, a sense of total isolation ("I have nobody"), fears of hurting the child and fears of the child's reactions. The NVR counselor must know and expect those objections so as best to address them. Ways of dealing with the various objections will be systematically detailed, so as to help practitioners overcome those barriers. ---------------------------- Presented at the 5th International Conference on NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE INTERVENTIONS, 9-11 May 2018, The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo

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