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The New Authority Concept
Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) was first developed in a research study conducted by Prof. Haim Omer from Tel-Aviv University. The research led to the opening of the Parent's Counseling Clinic at Schneider Children's Medical Center (SCMC) in Israel and revolutionized the field of parent training in Israel. Over the years, following international trainings, workshops and conferences led by counselors from the Parent's Counseling Clinic, NVR was applied also in diverse settings such as schools, psychiatric institutes, foster care, and juvenile prisons. Developments in the use of NVR techniques led to the creation of the New Authority concept – a guiding strategy for empowering parents, educators and therapists in their NVR work.
The New Authority Center (NAC) was established in 2007 by Idan Amiel and team members from the Parents' Counseling Clinic in SCMC. The team's vision was to promote the concept of a new authority that's compatible with the values of a free society. Our team’s goal at the NAC is to help parents, educators and teams to increase their presence and authority in today’s changing world.
Today NVR and the New Authority concept is being applied in many treatment centers all over Europe - Germany, Belgium, England, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands and more. You can read about the NA concept at the N.A.N.I. (New Authority Network International) website. The website was launch in our 2011 international conference in Brussels, to encourage professionals to learn more about the concept through articles, case studies etc. regarding NVR and the New Authority. Read more about N.A.N.I. at www.NewAuthority.net.
Idan Amiel
Idan is a clinical psychologist and director of the parents' counseling unit in Schneider Medical Center. Over the last 20 years he has been a key professional in developing the concepts of NVR and New Authority. He established, together with Professor Haim Omer, the New Authority Center in order to promote and expand the principles of the New Authority. Idan now serves as the NAC director and guides the professional NVR teams in Israel.
Yifat Pollak-Cohen
Yifat is a clinical social worker (MSW) and a CBT psychotherapist. She specialized in child abuse, domestic violence, neglect and sexual assault and served as a child investigator in the ministry of Welfare for twenty years. For the last 6 years, Yifat is a supervisor and a reginal director in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault in the Israeli ministry of Health. Yifat has been working for the last several years as a therapist at the Parents' Counseling Clinic at Schneider hospital and serves as a leading trainer in NVR courses and workshops for students and therapists at the New Authority Center.
