© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Holidays at any time of year can be a time of fun and visiting with family and friends. But it also can be a combustible mix of political opinions, food choices, parenting differences, and generational expectations and pressures. (“So, when are you going to…get a job, g...

© 2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

This time of year we think about and visit with our families. Hopefully happy times. But for many people, it is a sad time because of estranged family relationships. Maybe there’s an adult relative who has cut off all contact with another adult relative because of their...

© 2017 by Bill Eddy and L. Georgi DiStefano

As people with high conflict tendencies appear to be increasing in society and the workplace, we are hearing more reports of disrespectful behavior during business meetings these days. Sad to say that this even is a topic which needs to be addressed. But ...

© 2016 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Workplace bullying is a growing international problem. It is more than a one-time incident. It is a pattern of behavior between a bully and another worker which can demoralize, isolate and trigger illness in the target of the bully. What is bullying? Who does it? Is it ...

© 2016 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. & L. Georgi DiStefano, LCSW

Dealing with people  with high conflict tendencies (HCT - High Conflict Tendencies) in the workplace presents a variety of challenges. The good news is that if you suspect that you are working with a person displaying HCT (keep that thought t...

© 2017 by Michael Lomax, JD

Imagine you are a manager, and you have a supervisor who reports to you who is dealing with an employee with high conflict traits or tendencies.  There has already been a complaint from the employee that the supervisor is abusing their authority over the employee.  You h...

©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. 

Family law professionals were shaken to the core by last month’s murders of 6 people by an angry ex-husband in Arizona.

The victims included two paralegals who worked for the wife’s attorney, a forensic psychiatrist who had testified in the case, a psychologist who ren...

© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Have you noticed that people with high-conflict tendencies and high-conflict behavior are rapidly increasing in today’s interconnected world? They can pop up anywhere as upset family members, violent partners, angry co-workers, bullying managers, arrogant business owner...

Is everything a battle with your ex-partner, spouse, or your child’s other parent? Are there ways you can better manage a high conflict divorce or custody conflict? Mediator and attorney Stephen McDonough shows us how:

As a Massachusetts divorce and family law lawyer and mediator, I am in the confl...

© 2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Many workplace disputes get resolved rather easily by those involved or by simple management interventions. Other disputes are more difficult and mediation is becoming an appealing method for resolving such disputes, because it can be quick, confidential and empowering ...