Workshop 32, 26/5 13:00-14:15

NA/NVR and the presents of the child in different clinical settings.

In patient clinic: the combination of NA/NVR and 'Circles of Presence'

Karolien ten Haaf, Berten De Mol and Imke Mertens.

Karolien ten Haaf, head of the nursing staff at PAika, Psychiatric ward for infants, children and adolescents, University Hospital, Brussel, Belgium.

Berten De Mol, bachelor educational at PAika.

Imke Mertens, Bachelor psychiatric nurse at PAika.

NA/NVR and the presence of the child in different clinical settings.

In patient clinic: the combination of NA/NVR and 'Circles of Presence'

PAika, child and adolescent psychiatric in-patient center at the University Hospital Brussels, Belgium, has started in 2009. Children under the age of 18 with diverse psychiatric problems are hospitalized for diagnosis and treatment.

Working with complex, and sometimes destructive, behavior of children demands a lot of mental and physical capacity of all team members. In 2011 we started with Nonviolent Resistance and New Authority. The implementation of this vision, as well as the difficulties we encountered during this process, is one part of our presentation.

A few years later, the principles of NVR and NA were further developed into a vision that fits our ward. For example, with teenagers the concepts of Vigilant Care have been translated into a working model, called ‘Circles of Presence’. In the group of children under the age of 12, a ‘Supporting network’ is used as a daily operating principle. In the second part of our presentation, both working models will be illustrated.

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