Haim Omer

Haim Omer is a professor emeritus at the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of eleven books (translated into 10 languages) and more than a hundred academic articles. His approach, known as Non-Violent Resistance or The New Authority, is a major influence in family guidance, school interventions and prevention of risk behaviors by children and adolescents. He has published many studies on the method and its applications with parents of children with impulsive and aggressive behaviors, anxiety disorders, social withdrawal, juvenile delinquency, teen-drivers, computer misuse, violence against siblings, child-to-parent violence and school refusal. There have been five international conferences devoted to the approach (London, Antwerp, Munich, Malmo and Tel-Aviv), as well as dozen of local conferences in more than twenty countries.