What is Non Violent Resistance (NVR)? Non Violent Resistance (NVR) is a therapeutic approach to raising children that empowers parents/carers to deal with children's aggressive and self-destructive behaviours in a non-violent manner and that helps them to rebuild healthy and respectful family relationships. Any client who is a parent/carer may be struggling with child-to-parent violence […]

This presentation will outline the parent-led anxiety treatment programme 'S.P.A.C.E.' (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a programme created by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Centre. The programme reduces anxiety in children and adolescents through changing parental responses to anxiety and reducing accommodations parents are making around the anxiety. Some of the […]

Adaptations to therapy for neurodivergent clients: considering differences in cognitive style, sensory responses, social communication difficulties and alexithymia. Dr Ann Ozsivadjian worked at the Evelina London Children's Hospital for 16 years, latterly as the lead clinical psychologist. During her time there she published a number of papers and also developed training programmes for CAMHS staff […]

Over the years assessing children with neurodiversity it has become clearer and clearer to me that many children have the cognitive capacity to mask their distress and social communication difficulties in certain environments and situations. Ultimately if this not identified and sensitively and effectively supported, individuals can development mental health issues, emotional based school avoidance […]

What is the SPACE anxiety programme? SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-based treatment programme for children and adolescents with anxiety and/or OCD. SPACE was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Centre and has been found to be effective in clinical trials. Who participates in […]