Talk:Severe Mental Illness and NVC

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Ventura County,CA Behavioural Health Dept Pysch Unit

Liz Otterbein, R.N. is a certified NVC trainer who has been working in the Pysch Unit for ?? years on weekends. She uses the principles of NVC as an anger managemement techique. As the Psych Unit is a crisis unit, a number of patients are admitted under a legal hold as they are deemed to be a danger to self or others. They are typically feeling very angry, not only at the situation that initially aroused their anger but also becausse they have been forcibly restrained by the police and bought into the unit under duress as the result of a legal hold. She incorporates the principles of NVC in her discussions with the patients and as a result, they calm down very rapidly. Tim Tim's story illustrates such a discussion in which a very angry young man becomes peaceful and starts taking constructive action for himself without any use of violence or threats becuase he is treated with respect, understanding and offered compassion and empathy.

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