NPD Rx programs
NPD Education Program
NPD Rx engages qualified professionals to provide educational seminars (Continuing Education Units) about dark triad personality disorders in community, especially in terms of effect on children.
The DV‐Packet Workshop Program
Experiencing dark-triad abuse -like all domestic violence- is bewildering and mentally traumatizing and can present similar to a heavy concussion. The simple question, 'So, what happened?" can be far beyond a dark-triad abused person's verbal ability. Compiling a written and succinct “DV Packet” of a person's own historical information that is chronologically organized, labeled and indexed, can both help prepare a survivor to self-advocate and avoid further damage from traumatization of retelling, as well as assist in memory re-integration which may help a survivor to avoid returning to an abuser because of "euphoric recall" and the Fawn Trauma Response (PTSD).
NPD Rx has made the DV‐Packet Workshops a reliable, weekly activity. Bring your boxes and bags and sit down with support group members, chew gum and eat snacks while we help each other stay "present" to look at our own materials.
The Life Boat Program
• Directly promote the policy‐change that each dark-triad divorce/separation case to be qualified by the county and state as family violence rather than "no fault". Changing the categorization can mean per the law that an abuser may be barred from obtaining custody of children.
• Direct activism for increased access to resources that end post‐separation/ dark-triad‐abuse of adult and child victims, specifically recommending that police and domestic violence justice centers with co-located services provide full, on-going (tracked) advocacy until all family members are safe from abuse. Case-management that neglects the primary impediment to recovery (full safety for all family members from an abuser) is not case-management or advocacy.
• "How to be Your Own Communication Advocate" class empowers survivors to de-personalize, "grey-rock" or professionalize required communication with their abuser. Practicing how to "pause on purpose" (how to calm their own conditioned activation/"triggers" of abuse-memories) prior to responding to an abuser leads to better communication outcomes.
Informal Children's Support Group Program
A youth weekly support group for children recovering or still subject to dark-triad‐abuse from a strongly dark-triad‐parent. Children who have experienced dark-triad‐abuse may bear life‐long trauma. Childhood dark-triad‐abuse can be life-threatening and forever life‐changing. A dark-triad abused child may need colorful signs on her home refrigerator to affirm that she is allowed to have food and water whenever she would like it, and another dark-triad abused child may need any approaching adults to knock or snap‐fingers softly to gain attention to ask permission to come inside a room or within the perimeter distance of 8 feet. These deep emotional scars appear to be the result of having been captive (unsupervised parenting time) with their dark-triad‐abusive parent. Dark-triad‐abused children can benefit from parent-supervised activities with other children who have had similar abuse.
The Beloved Homes Program
To make safe and healthy outcomes more likely, BeLoved Homes is a 24‐month grant housing program for families fleeing and healing from abuse. NPD Rx asks cities, counties and federal agencies for land, grant funds, professional services, and goods to achieve acquisition for development of multi‐family housing properties, and NPD Rx issues tax exempt receipts at fair‐market value for such items or professional services that are contributed to make the Beloved Homes Program feasible and cash-flow.
NPD Education Program
NPD Rx engages qualified professionals to provide educational seminars (Continuing Education Units) about dark triad personality disorders in community, especially in terms of effect on children.
The DV‐Packet Workshop Program
Experiencing dark-triad abuse -like all domestic violence- is bewildering and mentally traumatizing and can present similar to a heavy concussion. The simple question, 'So, what happened?" can be far beyond a dark-triad abused person's verbal ability. Compiling a written and succinct “DV Packet” of a person's own historical information that is chronologically organized, labeled and indexed, can both help prepare a survivor to self-advocate and avoid further damage from traumatization of retelling, as well as assist in memory re-integration which may help a survivor to avoid returning to an abuser because of "euphoric recall" and the Fawn Trauma Response (PTSD).
NPD Rx has made the DV‐Packet Workshops a reliable, weekly activity. Bring your boxes and bags and sit down with support group members, chew gum and eat snacks while we help each other stay "present" to look at our own materials.
The Life Boat Program
• Directly promote the policy‐change that each dark-triad divorce/separation case to be qualified by the county and state as family violence rather than "no fault". Changing the categorization can mean per the law that an abuser may be barred from obtaining custody of children.
• Direct activism for increased access to resources that end post‐separation/ dark-triad‐abuse of adult and child victims, specifically recommending that police and domestic violence justice centers with co-located services provide full, on-going (tracked) advocacy until all family members are safe from abuse. Case-management that neglects the primary impediment to recovery (full safety for all family members from an abuser) is not case-management or advocacy.
• "How to be Your Own Communication Advocate" class empowers survivors to de-personalize, "grey-rock" or professionalize required communication with their abuser. Practicing how to "pause on purpose" (how to calm their own conditioned activation/"triggers" of abuse-memories) prior to responding to an abuser leads to better communication outcomes.
Informal Children's Support Group Program
A youth weekly support group for children recovering or still subject to dark-triad‐abuse from a strongly dark-triad‐parent. Children who have experienced dark-triad‐abuse may bear life‐long trauma. Childhood dark-triad‐abuse can be life-threatening and forever life‐changing. A dark-triad abused child may need colorful signs on her home refrigerator to affirm that she is allowed to have food and water whenever she would like it, and another dark-triad abused child may need any approaching adults to knock or snap‐fingers softly to gain attention to ask permission to come inside a room or within the perimeter distance of 8 feet. These deep emotional scars appear to be the result of having been captive (unsupervised parenting time) with their dark-triad‐abusive parent. Dark-triad‐abused children can benefit from parent-supervised activities with other children who have had similar abuse.
The Beloved Homes Program
To make safe and healthy outcomes more likely, BeLoved Homes is a 24‐month grant housing program for families fleeing and healing from abuse. NPD Rx asks cities, counties and federal agencies for land, grant funds, professional services, and goods to achieve acquisition for development of multi‐family housing properties, and NPD Rx issues tax exempt receipts at fair‐market value for such items or professional services that are contributed to make the Beloved Homes Program feasible and cash-flow.