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- Title
Training in Nonviolent Resistance for Parents of Violent Children: Differences Between Fathers and Mothers.
- Authors
Lavi-Levavi, Ifat; Shachar, Iris; Omer, Haim
- Abstract
Parents of violent children, who underwent training in nonviolent resistance (NVR), were compared with a wait-list control. Each parent reported on him/herself as well as on the other parent. Although both parents reported significant improvements in measures of parental helplessness, only fathers reported significant improvements on three scales measuring parent-child escalation processes, namely, power-struggles, parental submission, and negative feelings. Mothers were found to suffer more than fathers from escalating conflicts with the child both at the beginning and the end of treatment. Although fathers reported that escalation of both parents with the child lessened with treatment, mothers witnessed no significant improvements. Results were interpreted as showing that the special plight of mothers poses a still unmet challenge to NVR and probably to other modalities of parent training.
- Subjects
VIOLENT children; PARENTS; PASSIVE resistance; NEGATIVISM; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2013, Vol 32, Issue 4, p79
- ISSN
1195-4396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/jsyt.2013.32.4.79