7 Tips for Dealing with Difficult People During this Crisis
© 2020 Bill Eddy
How are you doing during this homebound coronavirus crisis? We hope you’re managing okay, staying healthy and washing your hands a lot. This article is about the reality that even during a crisis we still have to deal with some difficult people. With this in mind, here...
An Important Message From High Conflict Institute CEO, Megan Hunter
Megan Hunter, CEO
During this past week as I have experienced a slightly hilly roller coaster of thoughts and feelings, the 5 Stages of Grief™ by Elisabeth Kubler Ross & David Kessler came to mind. But I replaced the term “grief”...
4 Mistakes to Avoid When Dealing with Difficult People
© 2017 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Difficult people – people with high conflict tendencies - have a pattern of negative behavior with four primary characteristics: All-or-nothing thinking; unmanaged emotions; extreme behavior or threats; and a preoccupation with blaming others. Therefore,...
Quickly Identifying People with High Conflict Characteristics (Before you marry them, hire them or elect them!)
© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
People with High Conflict tendencies or characteristics are popping up everywhere these days. From high conflict divorce, to sexual harassment in the workplace, to leaders of countries threatening nuclear war! In my newest book, 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin...
Anybody You Know? 40 Predictable Characteristics of People with High Conflict Characteristics
©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
For the past twenty years I have been studying and teaching about 'people with high-conflict characteristics and how to manage them in legal disputes, workplace disputes, neighbor disputes and other situations. People with high-conflict characteristics have a...
How to Spot People with High Conflict Tendencies (before it's too late to avoid them)
© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
People with high conflict tendencies will generally display high conflict behaviour. This means they have an ongoing pattern of all-or-nothing thinking, unmanaged emotions, extreme behavior or threats, and a preoccupation with blaming others. They have a...
Who Are People with High Conflict Tendencies?
© 2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
People with High Conflict Tendencies have a pattern of high-conflict behavior that increases conflict rather than reducing or resolving it. This pattern usually happens over and over again in many different situations with many different people. The issue that...
Can People with High-Conflict Characteristics / Tendencies Change?
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. ©2019
This is an increasingly important question in many areas of modern life, including in love relationships, in the workplace and in legal disputes. Major decisions are often made by assuming that someone will or won’t change their negative behaviors. Yet there...
DOUBT = EASILY MANIPULATED
©2020 Andrea La Rochelle
My ego can get the best of me. Like, full on, I’m right – you’re wrong, ego. Full on ‘Andrea, you are small, incapable and useless.’ It doesn’t happen often anymore and when it does happen, it passes quickly....
Calming Holiday Conflicts
© 2016 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
When family and friends gather for this holiday season, it can be a time of joy—and conflict. This year, after 18 months of a bruising campaign for President of the United States, there will be added tension if family members and friends voted for opposing...
