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...
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...
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...
High Conflict Divorce and the BIFF Response®
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...
Surviving and Thriving Through the Toughest Parenting Battles
Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW, shares his insights into all-too-common issues in high-conflict divorces and promotes the spirit and intent of the BIFF Response®.
Have you ever been in Court when a judge loses it? I mean the judge really cannot contain him/herself anymore when one of the...
The Farmer's Market(ing) Of Divorce
© 2016 by Deborah S. Lyons, Ph.D.
Lately I’ve found myself at one of those nodal points in life where we examine past decisions with a willingness to take risks and address the problem in a new and different way. One such arena for me was the manner in which I market myself...
Boundaries in Separation and Divorce
© 2016 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., CFLS
When parents start living in two separate households, they need to redefine their boundaries, especially in regard to the children. There are many boundaries that people generally don’t think about when everyone lives in the same home. But after...
Managing Your Life with a High-Conflict Co-Parent
©2019 Megan Hunter and Andrea LaRochelle
The High-Conflict Co-Parent Survival Guide found its own path as Andrea and I explored the options. Over time we realized that we were attempting to write a book that had already been written by others.
What hadn't been written was a book that...
