Non-Emerging Adulthood

Dan Dulberger is a marriage and family therapist and a psychotherapist. He is internationally recognised as an expert in Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) therapy and teaches in the Couple and Family Therapy diploma program at the University of Calgary, Canada. Haim Omer is a professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and the developer of the Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) approach for parents, teachers, and other caregivers.

• 1. The Adult Child: Functional and Dysfunctional Dependence; 2. Non-Violent Resistance and Accommodation; Objections; Treatment Goals; 3. The Intervention; 4. Suicide Threats; 5. Helping Parents of Children and Adolescents at Risk of Failure to Emerge; 6. Addressing Entrenched Dependence in Special Contexts; 7. Survival Mode: The Adult Child's Experience; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'Congratulations to Dulberger and Omer on their comprehensive book, which is replete with strategies and skills that can be applied cross-culturally with families and their adult-child struggling with entrenched dependence. This book delineates a step-by-step guide for the application of the Non-Violent Resistance therapy approach for clinicians from various disciplines working with youths, who may be reliant on their parents or carers in ways that are unhelpful and developmentally inappropriate. Using a strengths-based and culturally sensitive approach, Dulberger and Omer provide families with the necessary tools required for diverse families to intentionally be present to their children to avoid and reduce accommodating responses that fuel entrenched dependence. This timely book will be instructive to clinicians working with youth not in employment or education.' Gina Dimitropoulos, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Calgary, Canada