Dr. Samuel Kahn 2024 Memorial Lecture

Thursday, March 21, 12pm via Zoom

Enrollment Limited To: No Limit

Contact Hrs: 1                     CEUs: 1

Speaker: Dan Dulberger, RMFT-SM

Non-Violent Resistance Therapy (NVR) is an approach that helps parents to manage the violent, destructive, and/or controlling behavior of their children. NVR encourages parents to make a stand against violent or destructive behavior from their child, without using physical or verbal aggression.

• It is a stable alternative to violent conflict and unproductive attempts at verbal persuasion.
• NVR is used for a variety of aggressive people, including children, adolescents, and adults.
• It is currently used with children in care, children with mental health issues, and people with autistic spectrum disorder.

In mental health, NVR signifies the therapeutic application of political non-violent resistance principles to crises of human caregiving, as originally articulated by Haim Omer.

NVR as a therapeutic approach was developed by clinical psychologist Haim Omer and a group of his students at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Psychology in the mid-90’s. It started out as a counselling project to parents suffering from loss of parental authority, facing disruptive behaviors in children. This work brought NVR’s very first implementation – a new philosophy of parenting called “New Authority.”

NVR is widely practiced and taught in Europe and in Israel. Professional associations and networks devoted to NVR exist in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since 2010, the global NVR community has held six international conferences devoted to innovation in NVR theory and practice. Since 2021, NVR is making its first steps in Canada and in the United States.

NVR uses many tools to achieve non-harming resistance to harm, but in itself is not a tool, or even a toolbox, but a philosophy and a value system of care.

Dan is founder and director of the Center for NVR Therapy and Practice. A systemic therapist, a counseling therapist, and a counselor in NVR interventions, Dan is internationally acknowledged as an instructor and innovator in Non-Violent Resistance Therapy, as well as in NVR interventions with families of non-emerging adult children with entrenched dependence. His professional activities include clinical work with families in crises, consulting to mental health organizations, training, supervision, authoring, teaching, and speaking, in Canada, Europe, and Israel. Dan teaches and supervises at the University of Calgary’s Post-Masters Certificate and Diploma in Couple and Family Therapy and is formerly a staff member of the Calgary Family Therapy Center. In 2010, Dan founded the Israeli Clinic for Parental Empowerment, together with Haim Omer. Dan holds an M.A. degree in Psychology from Tel Aviv University, is a graduate of SHINUI (the Israeli Institute for Systemic Studies, Family and Personal Change), and was personally trained by Haim Omer in the NVR approach. Dan is certified by the Israeli (CCFT), Canadian (CAMFT) and American (AAMFT) Associations for Marital and Family Therapy, and by the Association of Counseling Therapists of Alberta (ACTA). He is also accredited as a Practitioner and Supervisor by the UK Association of NVR Practice (UK).

1 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT AVAILABLE

Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the NYS Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101 and by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0067. The learner must complete all parts in order to earn the certificate for contact hours. WJCS gratefully acknowledges the generosity of The Dr. Samuel Kahn Memorial Library Fund.

Please note: To receive CE credits, one must attend the entirety of the class. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. To document attendance, participants must sign in and out of the class and complete an evaluation at the end of each class.

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