Nonviolent Resistance in Trauma-Focused Practice

This book presents Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) for traumafocused care, adopting a systemic and traumaorientated approach to aggressive and selfdestructive behaviours in young people. Based on systemic therapy methods and principles in sociopolitical NVR, NVR targets aggressive and selfdestructive child behaviours in a relational way to help parents develop selfefficacy in responding to the problematic behaviour and grow a supportive community around the family. In this book, Peter Jakob integrates the original NVR model with aspects of trauma and attachment theory, solutionfocused therapy and narrative therapy, in order to expand the efficacy of NVR in traumafocused work. Grounded in Jakobs extensive clinical experience and research, the book will help the reader navigate the complexity of working across various systems in family therapy and counselling, particularly within challenging contexts such as multistressed families, adoptive families, foster and residential care. Method descriptions and illustrative case examples are featured throughout the chapters to ultimately help readers contribute to their clients (re)discovery of their internal and interpersonal resources and ultimately promote healing from trauma for everyone involved. This text is an essential resource for a wide variety of mental health professionals, social workers and family workers, as well as caregivers and managers in residential care.