Family Verbal Violence Typology and Neurolinguistic Mechanisms of Nonviolent Communication Interventions

Family verbal violence, a pervasive but often overlooked issue, has profound impacts on psychological development and neural mechanisms. This comprehensive review examines the typology of family verbal violence and explores the neurolinguistic mechanisms through which nonviolent communication (NVC) interventions exert their positive effects. The study identifies five distinct categories of verbal violence: insult-based, depreciatory, threatening-intimidating, disdain-disgust, and complaining-pleading, each with characteristic patterns and psychological consequences. Drawing on recent advances in neurolinguistics, this paper demonstrates how verbal violence activates threat response systems in the brain (particularly the amygdala and prefrontal cortex), while NVC interventions facilitate neural plasticity and cognitive restructuring through specific language mechanisms. The four-step NVC model (observation, feeling, need, request) is analyzed as a neuroscientifically grounded framework for disrupting maladaptive communication patterns and fostering emotional regulation. The integrated analysis highlights the potential of NVC interventions to reverse the neuropsychological impacts of verbal violence, with implications for clinical practice, family education, and future research directions in psychological and linguistic fields.